Jun 22, 2020 | Microsoft, Office, Office 365, software, web_services
How do you manage your household finances? Until a few years ago, there’s a good chance you used Quicken, the venerable Windows and Mac finance program. Quicken was released in 1983 for MS-DOS and Apple II, at the birth of personal computing. It started to...
May 31, 2020 | mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, Windows10
At some point, possibly during our lifetimes, the Outlook desktop program for Windows will begin syncing email signatures through the cloud from one computer to another. This will be a wonderful thing that will alleviate one small pain point in setting up new...
May 3, 2020 | mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, search, Windows10
If you use the Outlook desktop program for Windows, the search bar is going to change and move around and grow and grow and grow like a mutant chicken heart from an old horror movie. And just like the monster, you can’t stop it. (Cue spooky soundtrack music.)...
Apr 27, 2020 | mail, Microsoft, Office 365, Outlook
Too many important messages are going into my Outlook Junk Email folder, and I can’t figure out why. Seriously, I don’t know how to explain it. Several of my clients have mentioned that more messages lately are being incorrectly flagged as spam, and the...
Apr 22, 2020 | Dropbox, file_sharing, Google, Google Drive, Microsoft, Office 365, OneDrive, Teams, web_services
Dropbox started as a drop-dead simple product for individuals: a folder on your computer that seamlessly syncs with the cloud so you can work with the identical folder on all your other computers. That’s it! That’s all there was to it. Ten years ago, that...
Apr 6, 2020 | business, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneCare, OneDrive, Outlook, software
Shared communication is one of the underpinnings of civilization. It sets humans apart from animals. Microsoft is engaged in a long-term effort to prevent us from being able to understand each other. I don’t know why. The company doesn’t appear to be run...
