
Forever, it seems, Microsoft has extolled the virtues of Exchange stores (.ost’s) versus local stores (.pst’s). Many companies have fallen in line, also seeing the value of storing email and information online, particularly for backup and disaster recovery purposes. Still, there are those users and companies that have held out,…

Smartphone instant messaging applications like iMessage and WhatsApp are more growing in popularity and even far outpacing traditional SMS, according to a new study from Informa. In 2012, on average 19.1 billion messages were sent and received each day over the six most popular mobile chat applications, including Blackberry Messenger, Texting has…

El cierre de Windows Live Messenger por parte de Microsoft sento como un autentico jarro de agua fria a muchos usuarios que mantenian, por una u otra razon, dicho servicio de mensajeria entre sus favoritos. Como sabemos las alternativas de los de Redmond a Messenger han sido Outlook y Skype,…

With Google I/O now just around the corner, rumors are flying high and low about what we can expect. On the table is a Google Nexus 5, Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie and a next-gen Google Nexus 7 tablet. Last week we tried to clear things up about the Google Nexus 5 So…

Dextr is a new mail experience that hopes to bring you closer to the people you love, and it may help you do precisely that. The app allows you to communicate with your friends – and only your friends – in a simple and minimalistic interface. If you want a…

MFCMAPI, the well-respected reveal-behind-the-scenes utility for Exchange, has a little brother called MRMAPI, which is now capable of reporting the bloat that exists within OST and PST files. MRMAPI has an interesting history. MAPI is full of tags that are used to describe the properties of items stored in Exchange…

Microsoft Office’s reign as the dominant productivity suite is under threat from Google Apps, according to analyst and consulting firm Gartner. Gartner’s conclusion in its webinar Tuesday, titled "Choosing a Cloud-Based Office System: Google vs. Microsoft," was somewhat different than in the past. The firm used narrower criteria in its…

Apps such as iMessage and WhatsApp were used to send around 19bn messages a day in 2012. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Text messaging has been eclipsed by messages sent using data services such as Apple’s iMessage, BlackBerry Messenger and WhatsApp, according to data from the consultancy Informa. The shift could…

Yes, you can install Microsoft Office on a Mac, but the latest version, Office 2013, is available only for Windows PCs. Instead, Microsoft is offering Office for Mac 2011. The company plans to eventually release the Mac version of Office 2013, but there isn’t a confirmed launch date yet. If you subscribe…

Free mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Kik, Viber, WeChat and MessageMe are getting so popular in the developed world that they’re eating away at the telecom operators’ SMS revenues, traditionally a cash cow (and actually a bit of a scam) for carriers worldwide. Unless you’ve been living under a…