June 2010

Apple fixes issue with iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync

Users of Apple’s new iPhone 4 phones or iPhone 3G, 3GS or iPod Touch users who upgraded to iOS 4 have been reporting issues synchronizing to Exchange Server using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). The issue with Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, also results in additional load on Exchange Server, which may cause performance issues […]

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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: Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

Close on the heels of Exchange 2010 SP 1 beta, Microsoft has just released Exchange 2007 SP 3. You can download the service pack from the download center. Exchange 2007 SP3 adds compatiblity for Windows Server 2008 R2 to Exchange 2007. With SP3, you can also install Exchange 2007 administration tools on Windows 7 clients. […]

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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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Social Engineering Attack Disguised As Mailbox Quota Message

Social engineering is all about psychological attacks— convincing a user to willingly divulge information is much more convenient, in most cases, than actually brute-forcing your way in. Attackers with very little technical sophistication (and perhaps some great social skills) can easily prey upon even the more vigilant users. I would’ve held on to my belief […]

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Hide the Ribbon in Office 2010

Office 2010’s Ribbon UI is a great replacement for the menus used in previous versions. Given the ever-increasing sizes of monitors and higher resolution displays that most of us use, it’s a great use of screen real-estate. It reduces the time it takes to find some of the more useful features that were previously hidden […]

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Office 2010 Hits Retail Stores

Starting today, Microsoft Office 2010 is available in retail stores. As I’ve indicated in some previous posts, I’m a big fan of Office 2010, particularly of Outlook 2010 which now has the pervasive ribbon UI and overall a great user experience. Another favorite is OneNote 2010, an Office app that’s become as essential as Outlook, […]

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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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