Google’s Gmail is getting personal with a new feature that lets you customize the visual theme and background image with your own photos, an online photo or a selection of featured images from Google+. Google is rolling out the new feature to Gmail users over the next few days so…

Amid Microsoft’s $1.2 billion buyout of Yammer, an enterprise social media platform, keep a close eye on Office 365. Indeed, it’s a safe bet Office 365 and Yammer will converge over time though Microsoft doesn’t want to make any rash moves that alienate current Yammer partners and customers. Microsoft claims Yammer has five…

Although Mozilla is most prominently known as the developer of Firefox – one of the world’s most popular and widely-used browsers – the company has also worked on another product: Thunderbird, an e-mail client with a bundle of other features. It’s an open-source product available for a number of platforms…

Idle meanderings about on-premises and cloud-based Microsoft Exchange Server and all the associated technology that runs alongside Microsoft’s enterprise messaging server.Tony Redmond’s Exchange Unwashed by Tony Redmond Idle meanderings about on-premises and cloud-based Microsoft Exchange Server and all the associated technology that runs alongside Microsoft’s enterprise messaging server. ARTICLE…

A mixture of intense excitement and skepticism followed the launch a year ago of Office 365, as backers and critics debated whether the cloud collaboration, productivity and communication suite would succeed. Skeptics said Office 365 was arriving too late as a unifying and superior replacement to weaker and disjointed offerings like Microsoft…

It’s been a year since Microsoft released Office 365, its Google Apps competitor. To mark the occasion, the Redmondians are making Office 365 for Education will be broadly available, starting today, June 27. Microsoft rolled out Office 365 in late June 2011. At that time, Microsoft announced a number of different plans at The core…

From Office 365 to Windows Azure, it’s time for a Microsoft cloud computing reality check. During a sit-down with Microsoft Channel Chief Jon Roskill next week, we’ll pose the following five questions. Our goal: To truly measure Microsoft’s cloud progress with channel partners. The interview, scheduled for Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference…

"I didn’t get that email" or "no, I didn’t send it to anyone else" are both phrases commonly heard by midsize IT admins when they go looking for the source of a security leak or try to discover where a chain of breach events began. In response to significant customer…

Microsoft has made a number of impressive announcements in the past few months (with hopefully more to come as early as Wednesday, when we’ll begin to hear more about Windows Phone 8), all beginning last October when we caught our first glimpses of Windows 8. Since then, we’ve had promises All of…

The majority of computer users who are writing, using spreadsheets and making digital presentations are doing so via Microsoft Office. The current version is available in three varieties for Windows operating systems and two for Macs. Each is tailored to the software’s specific use. For Windows, Office Home and Student,…