Here's everything I've done tagged with Microsoft
The battle for all of your cloud-based needs is heating up! I’m not surprised, and say bring it on! Up until now, the convenience of online storage was a costly one. That’s all changing now!
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Another day, another Internet Explorer security threat. The latest big bad to hit the IE family is so severe that the US Department of Homeland Security is urging the public to stop using the browser until it’s fixed. I have a better suggestion. Stop using Internet Explorer!
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IT budgets are being slashed, IT support staff have to “do more with less”, and yet more and more demands are always being asked. Corporate (C-level) executives focus on the bottom line (as they should), so when push comes to shove, they just make it simple—centralize. Less hubs, less expenses, more profit. What’s an IT guy to do?
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It’s the end of an era. Hotmail is no more. While news of its demise has been known for a long time now, the final nail in the coffin will be hammered in soon. By summertime this year, everyone with @hotmail.com addresses will be the proud owners of new @outlook.com identities!
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The words “Google” and “change” have been pretty interchangeable these days. You think the change is over? It’s not. We haven’t seen anything yet. So much has changed that employees are even jumping ship—and not quietly. Is Google collapsing on itself and taking us down with it?
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about mobile computing. Yes, it’s a trend, it’s real and it’s taking the world by storm. Reports make it sound like once you go mobile, you never go back. Not true. Some of us can’t just unplug—and some of us won’t.
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We’ve all pocket-dialed someone at least once in our lives. Maybe been guilty of pocket-deleting an app or two. It’s no big deal, you just reinstall it. But what if it wasn’t you who deleted it? What if it was Google, Apple or Microsoft—using the “kill switch”?
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It’s the holiday season and Microsoft has some presents for you! Patches to fix holes and flaws in its software—just what you wished for. You’ve all been good this year so the much anticipated patch to plug up the Duqu exploit is in your stocking. So get to decking those halls and patching those holes!
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We’ve all been told to not judge a book by its cover. But what if you only buy the book for the cover? If the book is a tablet and the story is Windows 8, Forrester says many people don’t care anymore.
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It’s everybody’s favorite Tuesday again. The days may be getting shorter and it’s dark earlier, but that doesn’t mean you should be lazy and put off patching up some security holes. Get patching!
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We all want the best things in life. Those are free, right? Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t. Many opt for the no price tag option (I don’t blame you, I would!), but when it comes to free there’s always some kind of price. Is it worth it?
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Patch Tuesday? Again already? Yup, it sure is! And no, Microsoft hasn’t decided to start using an update schedule like Adobe for Flash and Acrobat. Don’t worry, it has in fact been a month (I checked). Get patching!
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