BRUCEB NEWS
Hope Is Being Able To See That There Is Light Despite All Of The Darkness
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu Yesterday there was a terrorist attack against the United States by armed insurrectionists occupying Capitol buildings at the direction of the President. And I am more hopeful...
WINDOWS HOME SERVER & HP ADDINS
This is getting to be an old, old story. The story is: a manufacturer forces unwanted software on consumers, and the software slows down or breaks perfectly nice devices. This...
THE MOJAVE EXPERIMENT
Microsoft has put up a web site for "The Mojave Experiment," with film footage of people responding favorably to what they believed was a brand-new secret operating system, then...
WINDOWS SEARCH 4 & NETWORK SHARES
Windows Search 4 was released last month as an upgrade to Windows Search 3.01 (Windows XP) and the built-in search capability in Windows Vista. It is an important upgrade for...
MICROSOFT FIGHTS BACK WITH “MOJAVE”
Microsoft will be using new advertisements and other marketing tricks to turn around the public perception that there is something wrong with Vista. A CNet writer just ran across...
UPS SPAM
The latest outbreak of virus-laden spam purports to be a message from UPS about an undeliverable package. The attachment is a ZIP file with an executable program inside that does...
MICROSOFT ONLINE SERVICES
Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced new services that might drastically change the email technology used by small businesses. Let me give you some background, then give you some...
WINDOWS HOME SERVER POWER PACK 1
Microsoft has released Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server, fixing a rare but embarrassing data corruption bug, adding new features, and improving stability. Reports of...
SONY DELIVERS CRAPWARE-FREE PC
From a column today by Ed Bott:"Sony is finally taking on its crapware problem. For the past two months, I've been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and...
OUTLOOK vs. GMAIL
Microsoft Exchange and Outlook dominate the market for corporate email. Small businesses running Exchange Server use Outlook almost exclusively. Until recently, even individuals...
SKYDRIVE/FOLDERSHARE/LIVE MESH
For those of you following along at home, here's a comparison of Microsoft's overlapping services for sharing and syncing files and storing files online, taken from this forum...
SBS & DIY
Small Business Server is aimed at businesses with 5-25 computers. (Its license allows it to be used for up to 75 computers but it's time to look at moving to the next step when...
SMALL BUSINESS SERVER 2008 IS COMING
Small Business Server 2008, the successor to SBS 2003, will ship on November 12. The first few months will reveal any lingering issues and clarify the procedure for migrating to...
LIVE MESH OPEN FOR TESTING
Microsoft is developing a platform capable of lots of interesting tricks. I wrote about Live Mesh a few months ago; now an updated version is ready for testing and it's quietly...
WINDOWS MOBILE & LIVE SEARCH
Few people browse Internet pages on a mobile device with a three inch screen. A few sites have pages that are optimized for a mobile device but they're pretty hard to come by....
DELL & YOUR TECH TEAM
I still buy most computers from Dell - it's not perfect, but in my experience it's still a step ahead of the other manufacturers in quality and support. It's easy to get Vista...