Microsoft
Bye, Bye Microsoft Outlook
It’s time has come, or passed rather… at least for me. I’m sure I’ll cross paths with my favorite email client and PIM in the future. I’ll either have a change of heart (unlikely) or a future client will insist that I use it for internal email at their location (very likely).
For all those [...]
Outlook on syncing with Google: Excellent
It seems that Google itself has released a useful little utility that will sync your Microsoft Outlook Calendar with your Google Calendar. No, I don’t think hell has frozen over, but it’s gotta be colder there anyway.
You can read more on the utility over at Google’s “Calendar Help Center“. Or you can skip [...]
The one thing holding me to Microsoft Outlook
I’ve come to the conclusion that there is only one feature in Outlook that is holding me to it at the moment. Can you help convince me that it’s time to drop Outlook?
See, I’ve been a longtime user and proponent of Microsoft software. It’s actually really good software, and a decent value… for the [...]
Riding the Vista Wave - Windows Deployment
That’s what my technical focus is for the next several months. I’ve been working on a Windows automated deployment environment for a client and will also be planning the next steps for them.
With that in mind, and the upcoming release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 along with Windows Server 2008, managed deployment [...]
End of the line for Windows Live Writer?
It may be for me. My new theme simply does not like WLW created posts - mainly because it does not create strict XHTML. Why can’t Microsoft adhere to a standard? It really frosts my balls when they have some great (and complex) products, but they can’t follow something as simple as [...]
Home Server & the Death of the Windows Drive Letters
It’s going to be very interesting to see how well the new Windows Home Server comes through for end users. One very neat twist is the way Home Server is going to manage disk space.
No more drive letters for Home Server clients for one thing. The new system will dynamically manage the [...]
Office Pro 2007
So I got Office Pro a few weeks ago and found that I will need to pick up the other Office components as well. Pro comes with Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and a few other incidentals. I don’t count Access as a real app since I’ve seen a lot of shitty programming done with it.
Over [...]
DST 2007 & Microsoft Outlook or Exchange
WTF?
How many people have read the KB article (931667) over at Microsoft concerning the “Addressing the daylight saving time changes in 2007 using the Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool“? Go read it, I’ll wait…
Ok, glad your back - now I know that it was really congress that passed this smelly turd along to everyone [...]
Windows Home Server thread
There is quite a thread of discussion of the upcoming Microsoft Windows Home Server accumulating over at Tailrank. From the little information I’ve found on the device, it is designed to be a central repository at home for files and backups.
Mainly destined to be a media-file storage device, I wonder if this really makes as [...]
Would consumers buy a Microsoft Windows Home Server?
I’m not sure that many would. The biggest use of a home server would be for storing recorded video in its original high-quality state.
Most consumers don’t know what they would need a server for and those that have moved into recording or watching video content are using services like SlingBox or Orb. These [...]
