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Microsoft Online Apps

October 5, 2009

Microsoft is making a bold entrance into the online computing arena with a limited rollout of online web applications.
The apps will include online versions of MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote, and will be available for free through Windows Live Skydrive. The apps will not have all the functions of the “regular” versions but will [...]

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Anti-Virus, Now From Microsoft

September 30, 2009

For 19 years, Windows’ Achilles heel has been its vulnerability to viruses. In my opinion, this vulnerability is ridiculously overstated (especially by the competition), but it is a liability. Unfortunately, most anti-virus software is either awful, expensive, or both.
With this in mind, I am astonished that it took Microsoft so long to develop its own [...]

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Pre-order Windows 7 upgrade for half off!

June 26, 2009

Windows 7 pre-orders start today. While the software itself will not ship until October, you can get a great deal if you order it now.
I wrote down my first impressions of Windows 7 earlier this year. Unlike Vista, I think Windows 7 is a necessary upgrade for every Windows user, especially those still using XP. [...]

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Acrobat.com Presentations: a future PowerPoint killer?

May 27, 2009

Today, Adobe releases a new collaborative Presentations application for its free online Acrobat.com cloud-based office suite. This new presentation software brings Acrobat.com one step closer to being a full-fledged online replacement for Microsoft Office. Since all of Acrobat.com is still in a beta phase, none of the products are fully developed — and some need [...]

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Microsoft Word is a habit you can kick

January 21, 2009

According to a Forrester Research report, “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Microsoft Word Love Story,” many companies use Microsoft Word because it is familiar, not because it is the best software for their needs.
“Because Word has become so entrenched in the enterprise in the last 25 years, organizations cannot easily move off of [...]

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First impressions of Windows 7

January 11, 2009

Microsoft Windows Vista has been, most everyone agrees, a huge disappointment. Even though, in the years leading up to the release of Vista, everyone complained loudly about Windows XP, by comparison, the old, familiar, and reliable XP stayed on everyone’s computer.
So can Microsoft do better? If the buzz about Windows 7 is any indication, the [...]

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Windows Azure: cloud computing for business?

October 27, 2008

Today, Microsoft announced Windows Azure, a “cloud” platform. You won’t run it on your computer, but rather use the internet to access software running on Azure.
Microsoft intends to compete directly with Google, Amazon, and other cloud services. In addition to Exchange, Microsoft plans to offer all its enterprise software as a service. It sounds, in [...]

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Microsoft’s new ad campaign: WTF?

September 12, 2008

Microsoft video number 2. I don’t know WTF either, but I laughed all the way through.
(For those not following current events, here is video number 1 in the new Microsoft ad campaign designed to compete with the popular “Get a Mac” Apple ads.)
Edit: Okay, I think this guy at Engadget may be on to something. [...]

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Windows will not actually speed up if you do the following . . .

August 6, 2008

From Lifehacker, nine things that will not actually speed up Windows. Among them, disabling Microsoft processes, clearing out your registry, and memory “optimizer” programs.
What will work: running SpyBot every now and then to clear out resource-hogging spyware, and using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer so you get less spyware in the first place.
Debunking Common Windows [...]

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Microsoft wants to control your hardware

June 13, 2008

At least, that seems to be the implication of its new “digital manners policy” patent, which would force your gadgets to receive “orders” from a digital Miss Manners overlord. For example, a movie theater could automatically switch all phone in the audience to vibrate when the movie starts.
Maybe that would be nice, but when I [...]

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