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Bing Sucks At Searches
Bing sucks at searches. You know how I know that? Because I have an anecdote to prove it. Anecdotes don't prove anything. I know that. You know that. If I'm going to make a broad claim I ought to have solid evidence and statistics and data. I don't. Well, I do, but...
Holiday Shopping And Free Shipping With Amazon Prime
I love shopping at Amazon. What can I tell you? I’m high-tech but shallow. If you haven’t looked into the Amazon Prime program, now is the time to consider it, before you start...
R.I.P. Drive Extender
Drive Extender deserves another mention before it heads into the graveyard of failed technology. If you’ve been reading along, you know that Drive Extender was the promising...
Looking Forward: Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
Previously: The Future Of Small Office Technology History Lesson, Part 1: Small Business Server History Lesson, Part 2: Windows Home Server Looking Forward: Small Business Server...
Looking Forward: Small Business Server 2011 Standard
Previously: The Future Of Small Office Technology History Lesson, Part 1: Small Business Server History Lesson, Part 2: Windows Home Server Let’s see if we can keep the big...
Give A Kindle Book As A Gift
Just in time for the holidays, Amazon has made it easy to give a Kindle book as a gift. You can purchase a Kindle book and have it delivered to the email address associated with...
History Lesson, Part 2: Windows Home Server
Previously: The Future Of Small Office Technology History Lesson, Part 1: Small Business Server Some of Microsoft’s best technology has been overlooked for three years, hobbled...
History Lesson, Part 1: Small Business Server
Previously: The Future Of Small Office Technology It’s hard to remember how much of an impact Small Business Server had on small offices when Microsoft released the first version...
The Future Of Small Office Technology
Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has laid out the technology that will power small offices for the foreseeable future. When these are on the market (likely within the next 3-6...
Patch Tuesday And Flash Update
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday has come and gone this week with a very small number of patches for Office programs and nothing at all for Windows. Most of your computers restarted...
Searching All Mail In Outlook
One of the most powerful tools you can add to Outlook is a search folder that allows you to search through all of your messages with a single click. I wrote about Michael...
Malware Disguised As Microsoft Security Essentials
The security team at Microsoft recently published a particularly scary report about a new breed of malware that disguises itself by imitating Microsoft Security Essentials. Take...
Techniques To Avoid Outlook Slowdowns
Previously: Understanding Outlook Slowdowns If you were following along, you know that Outlook mailboxes run by Exchange Server can slow down if there are too many items in “core...
Understanding Outlook Slowdowns
These are important guidelines for Outlook users with mailboxes run by Exchange Server. I will be discussing this with my clients that have busy mailboxes! Reduce the number of...
Windows Live Essentials 2011 Pushed As “Important” Update
Previously: The Good And The Bad In Windows Live Essentials 2011 If you have Windows 7 or Vista, you might have seen the Windows Update icon down by the clock this week, alerting...
The Good And The Bad In Windows Live Essentials 2011
The good news is that Microsoft has released Windows Live Essentials 2011, an updated collection of free programs that are well designed and useful additions to Vista and Windows...