Microsoft Charges Google Reads Your Love Letters

Microsoft is celebrating Valentine’s Day with a broadside against Google, which it criticizes for reading your lovey emails in the name of commerce. In a not-so-subtle missive, the video above shows a Google mailman delivering a letter, but scanning the contents for keywords for which it can target ads. In…

Posted on: February 14, 2013 2:00 pm

Games for Windows Live issue kicks customers offline for four days

An issue with Microsoft’s Game for Windows Live servers is preventing some customers from accessing games that use the software. The ever-growing comment thread on Microsoft’s support forums repeatedly mentions difficulties with Dark Souls and Age of Empires Online, but that could simply be due to the popularity of those…

Posted on: February 14, 2013 2:00 pm

Microsoft Office and Apple’s iPads: Money left on the table?

That’s how much Morgan Stanley’s Adam Holt estimates Microsoft (MSFT) may be leaving on the table by not offering a full version of its Office suite (Word, Excel, etc.) on Apple’s (AAPL) iPads. Here how he gets that number. For starters he estimates that Microsoft probably sold fewer than 1 He…

Posted on: February 14, 2013 2:00 pm

Pro SharePoint 2010 Development for Office 365

Author: Bart McDonough, Dave Milner & Paul StorkPublisher: Apress, 2012Pages: 243ISBN: 978-1430241829Aimed at: Developers who want an introduction to SharePoint OnlineRating: 3.5Reviewed by: Kay Ewbank This is a book aimed at .NET and ASP.NET developers who are beginners in their knowledge of both SharePoint and Office 365, but who…

Posted on: February 14, 2013 9:00 am

Microsoft Fixes Critical Exchange Server, IE Flaws

Microsoft has addressed a serious graphics zero-day vulnerability and a bevy of critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer in its latest round of security patches The updates included both server and client side products. The software giant issued 12 bulletins, five critical, addressing 57 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, IE, Exchange The company…

Posted on: February 14, 2013 9:00 am

7 Things About SharePoint 2013 All IT Pros Should Know

CIO SharePoint, for Microsoft, has grown into a billions-of-dollars-a-year sort of business that increases its market share in the double-digit range each year. Not to put too fine a point on it: SharePoint is a beast in its space. Companies are adopting it worldwide to centralize knowledge, increase collaboration, develop…

Posted on: February 14, 2013 9:00 am

Rekordverdächtiger Microsoft Flickentag

13.2.2013 Zwoelf Update-Pakete fuer 57 Sicherheitsluecken, das ist das, was der Softwarehersteller Microsoft seinen Kunden am Flickentag des Monats Februar 2013 zu bieten hat. Da es eine groessere Anzahl gefaehrlicher Sicherheitsluecken zu schliessen gilt, sollten die Reparaturarbeiten umgehend durchgefuehrt werden. Nachdem es am Microsoft Flickentag in den letzten Monaten eher moderat zuging, haben…

Posted on: February 14, 2013 9:00 am

ClickMeeting Introduces Plug-In for Microsoft Outlook

ClickMeeting, leading provider of videoconferencing SaaS, announces a new plug-in that integrates their online meeting software with Microsoft Outlook, the most popular email program worldwide. "Our new plug-in makes Outlook even more useful," said ClickMeeting Founder and CEO Simon Grabowski. "Outlook is the favorite hub for email, calendaring, contacts tasks…

Posted on: February 14, 2013 9:00 am

Microsoft: Buy Office 365, Not Office 2013. Or You’ll Be Sorry

For those still wondering whether to choose Microsoft’s traditional Office productivity software suite or the new, subscription-based Office 365, consider this: traditional Office users will have to wait for "updates," and they won’t receive any new "upgrades" to the service at all. And there’s another consideration, too: Office 2013 is apparently These…

Posted on: February 14, 2013 9:00 am

Palringo Group Messenger Gets Group Chat Push Messaging, Custom Tones …

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Posted on: February 13, 2013 7:00 pm