BRUCEB NEWS
Cortana Daily Briefing & Schrodinger’s Cat
Microsoft Cortana is the Schrodinger’s Cat of personal assistants: it’s both alive and dead simultaneously. To be honest, after opening the door and observing Cortana, you’ll likely decide that the best word is “irrelevant,” which is fine; it means Cortana will keep...
OFFICE LIVE WORKSPACE UPDATE
Microsoft Office Live Workspace is one of the more interesting ways to store documents online and share them easily. Access is obtained through your Windows Live ID, the password...
JUNGLE DISK ONLINE BACKUP
Take a look at Jungle Disk, a service for online backups with a good reputation. I'm testing it now and finding a lot of things to like. The idea is simple - back up folders to a...
OLYMPIC TECHNOLOGY
By the close of the 2008 Olympic Games, NBC will have broadcast 2,900 hours of live coverage - more than the total number of US television hours for all previous summer Olympic...
FAKE FLASH UPDATE – SPYWARE ALERT!
There is a massive spam attack underway masquerading as messages from CNN.com. The first set of messages had links to the "Top 10 Headlines" and "Top 10 Videos"; now there are...
SECURITY EXHAUSTION
DROWNING IN JAVA
There are frequent updates for Java, the technology used by many web sites to make interesting things happen in your browser. You've probably seen the Java update bubble popping...
ACTIVESYNC FOR BLACKBERRY
ActiveSync is the technology from Microsoft that connects a mobile device to Exchange Server. For businesses running Small Business Server, it is ActiveSync that makes a Windows...
STEP 1 – BACKUP. STEP 2 – BACKUP AGAIN.
Let me tell you a scary story. When we plan our backups, the idea is to have a duplicate copy of our data on something separate from where it is normally stored and used. In...
SECURITY PROGRAM RANT
An interesting perspective on the state of security programs, from Susan Bradley's invaluable blog: "Anti-virus, you have lost. You sit there filling up our system trays with...
WHAT I USE
On the assumption that my choices are endlessly fascinating to an ever-growing number of people - really, really bored people - I've added a page with details about the hardware...
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...