Oct 13, 2009 | Adobe, Microsoft, security, Vista, WinXP
Your computer should restart tonight after installing this month’s critical updates for Windows and Office. It’s a particularly large batch of updates and some of them are for the kind of vulnerabilities that the bad guys will quickly be attempting to exploit. Adobe...
Oct 7, 2009 | Google, Microsoft, mobile, phone
This week it’s all phones, all the time. On Tuesday, Microsoft formally presented Windows Mobile 6.5 to the world. It’s a lightly modified version of the Windows Mobile software that’s been usable but uninteresting for years. It’s still fairly uninteresting. Oh, the...
Sep 29, 2009 | Microsoft, security, software
Microsoft Security Essentials, free antivirus and anti-malware security software from Microsoft, is now available from the MSE web site. Click here for the Microsoft press release, or click here for more information about Microsoft Security Essentials.If you want to...
Sep 28, 2009 | file_sharing, Internet, Microsoft, Office, web_services
Previously: First Look At Office Web Applications The Future Of Microsoft Online Files Let’s see if we can put it all together. This is informed speculation about the way things might work for small businesses and law offices before long. You sit at your office...
Sep 27, 2009 | file_sharing, Internet, Microsoft, Office, web_services
Microsoft has several overlapping, confusing services. It’s no surprise that most of you have not started to store files online or share online folders. Here’s a very brief description of the different ways available from Microsoft to move files around. WINDOWS LIVE...
Sep 25, 2009 | Internet, Microsoft, Office, web_services
Microsoft introduced a limited public look at Office Web Applications this week – a “Tech Preview” for a small group of testers of versions of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint designed to run in a web browser and open files stored online.The bad news is that the preview is...