Review: CloudMagic lives inside Windows 8
CloudMagic has gone Metro. The excellent search service, which I’ve been a fan of since it made its debut in 2010, is now available as a native application for Windows 8’s Metro interface. CloudMagic’s Windows 8 edition still delivers super-speedy, accurate search results across a host of services, but it You can…
Microsoft to let Office 365 users replace SharePoint’s newsfeed with Yammer’s
Microsoft offered more details on Tuesday about its plans to integrate SharePoint and Yammer, saying it’ll give Office 365 customers the option of replacing SharePoint Online’s activity-stream component with Yammer’s. Without committing to a specific date, Microsoft said it would provide this option during the summer. In the same timeframe, it…
Paula Smith shares IT experience in instructional book series
DALLAS For 25 years, Paula Smith has lent her expertise in information technology, or IT, to Fortune 500 companies such as Pepsico/Frito Lay, IBM, Verizon, Reliant Energy, and Shell Oil. Now, Smith has taken the same training modules used in corporate America and designed a series of instructional books to The…
Heat Spike in Data Center Caused Hotmail Outage
A row of servers packed into racks within a Microsoft data center module. On Tuesday Microsoft’s email services experienced an outage when a parts of a data center overheated. (Photo: Microsoft) The Hotmail servers got entirely too hot Tuesday, causing a major outage for Microsoft’s web-based email services. Both Hotmail…
Microsoft Outlook and Hotmail outages caused by overheating datacentre
Microsoft has said that outages on its Outlook and Hotmail services were caused by an overheating datacentre that took itself offline to stop problems spreading further. The incident occurred on Wednesday and left scores of customers without access to their email accounts. In a blog post written by vice president…
Microsoft: Botched firmware update set off Outlook.com outage
Network World – The Outlook.com partial outage lasting 16 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday morning was caused by a firmware update gone awry that triggered a temperature spike in a Microsoft data center, resulting in automatic safeguards that made a large number of servers inaccessible. Because of the unspecified safeguards,…
End is in sight for free Microsoft Office 2013 Preview
The party will soon be over for anyone enjoying the free Office 365/Office 2013 Preview, and Microsoft is getting serious about convincing people to buy or subscribe to the new productivity suite before the trial ends. For the past few weeks, Microsoft has notified preview users about the close of the…
Android Gmail Update Makes Archiving and Replying Faster, Easier
A new update to Gmail for Android makes it easier for users with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or above to archive or reply to emails. In the newest update to Gmail for Android, users can now archive or reply to emails directly from the notification tray. The options appear just below…
MOS Certification Offered at NRCC
Published on 19 March 2013 The Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exam and practice testing are now offered at New River Community College. The MOS certification is composed of eight separate exams that assess a user’s skill level with Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook 2010. Job seekers often…
Gmail for Android update lets you reply and archive straight from notifications
Google just pushed out a small update for the Android Gmail client, but it comes with a pretty handy feature. Users can now reply to emails straight from the notifications menu when you expand the notification, there’s a small box that contains options to reply, archive, or delete, depending on…
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