May 24, 2011 | Apple, Microsoft, security
For years, Windows users have felt persecuted by malware authors. Why weren’t Macs getting hit with viruses and poisoned web sites? The standard wisdom was that Macs didn’t have a big enough market share to hold the interest of the bad guys. To be honest, PC users...
May 23, 2011 | Microsoft, security, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
Previously: Say Goodbye To Six Year Old Computers Windows XP computers are falling over left and right. Many of them are simply insufferably slow for all the reasons I wrote about last fall. Windows XP is a much heavier, slower OS than when it was first released, and...
May 12, 2011 | mail, Microsoft, Outlook
Microsoft’s hosted Exchange service wobbled badly this week, with an extended outage on Tuesday and more delays on Thursday. Messages were stuck in outboxes and there were long delays for mail in transit. The head of the engineering department responsible for BPOS...
May 10, 2011 | IE, Internet, Microsoft, security, updates, Vista, Windows7
Previously: Battle Of The Browser Updates Comparing The New Internet Browsers Syncing Bookmarks And Favorites With Firefox 4 And Chrome 10 Syncing Bookmarks And Favorites With Internet Explorer 9 Windows 7 and Vista users are also likely to be seeing prompts to...
May 10, 2011 | mail, Microsoft
Clients with mail hosted by Microsoft Online Services are experiencing mail delays, both sending and receiving. It began this morning and apparently is a system-wide problem. Some mail began erratically flowing in and out at about 1pm, so you may see messages come...
May 5, 2011 | business, mail, Microsoft, Office, Outlook, SBS, web_services
Microsoft is sending out email notices to subscribers about changes ahead for Microsoft Online Services, the service providing hosted Exchange mailboxes for many of my clients. Let me give you some background to understand those notices. Later this year Microsoft...
