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Facebook, Welcome to Microsoft Outlook

When the Outlook team launched the Outlook Social Connector for Outlook 2010, LinkedIn and MySpace were the only 2 social network providers supported. Like most users my first reaction was “What about Facebook?” The Outlook Social Connector is a great addition to Outlook, but the lack of Facebook— without a doubt the most popular social […]

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Consumer Reports confirms iPhone 4 design flaw: Will Apple admit?

The influential Consumer Reports magazine confirms the iPhone 4’s design flaw after its engineers test the phone in a Radio Frequency isolation chamber. Consumer Reports recommends customers wanting to buy an iPhone consider buying the older iPhone 3GS instead. Watch the iPhone 4 Design Defect Confirmed video below. Of course, given the craze for anything […]

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History bites back: Apple iPhone 4’s “Grip of Death”

Photo courtesy Gizmodo Ironically, the iPhone 4’s antenna design flaw is increasingly being labeled the “Grip of Death”— a play on the proverbial term “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), used for the blue screen generated when Windows operating systems from a few generations ago crashed. (Yes, those ancient BSODs — when was the last time […]

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Microsoft: Let the numbers do the talking

It’s been an eventful few weeks in technology. The mainstream and tech media (and fanboys’) euphoria over Apple surpassing Microsoft’s market capitalization (i.e. price per share x number of shares) hasn’t completely died yet. Meanwhile, we’ve seen Microsoft’s Project Natal technology bear fruit as Microsoft Kinect, available for pre-order now and coming soon to a […]

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HTC Droid not synchronizing with Exchange 2010?

Last year Apple riled IT departments and security community when it was revealed that before the iPhone 3.1 OS release, iPhones had bee incorrectly reporting their policy compliance for encrypting device data (or as some critics said— the iPhone was lying about its policy compliance). See previous post iPhone OS 3.1 Security Changes and Exchange […]

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Windows 7 Crosses the 150 Million Mark

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced it sold 100 million copies of Windows 7 in 6 months (see Windows 7 reaches the 100 million mark). A few weeks later, an update from Brandon LeBlanc— Windows 7 has now sold 150 million copies! More in 150 Million Licenses of Windows 7 Sold, Windows Live Betas Announced […]

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Released: Windows Live Messenger for iPhone

Driving to the Silicon Valley Campus (SVC) this morning, I was thinking about about the possiblities of an iPhone version of Microsoft Office Communicator — the Instant Messaging and soft phone client for Office Communications Server. Microsoft already ships Microsoft Messenger, an OCS client for the Mac OS, so a mobile client for the iPhone […]

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Office Web Apps on the iPad?

With yesterday’s launch of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, and the ability to access it on mobile web browsers, could the iPad be far behind? Viewing Office docs in Office Web Apps is possible on the iPad but CNET’s Ina Fried was able to trick it to allow creation of Excel spreadsheets in the iPad’s […]

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Microsoft Office, Welcome to the cloud

Micrsoft Office is live in the cloud! In a blog post (read Office is now live on SkyDrive on the Windows blog), Microsoft’s Jason Moore announced the launch of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive— Microsoft’s free cloud-based storage service, which provides users up to 25 Gb. of storage space to store documents, photos and videos. […]

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Released: Exchange Sever 2010 SP1 Beta

Microsoft has released Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta. You can download it from the download center. Microsoft also announced Exchange 2007 SP3 is still on track and will be available soon. The download link above is for the beta version of Exchange 2010 SP1. It’s not recommended to deploy beta software in a production environment. What’s […]

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