In a move to help administrators rid their networks of disparate personal email archives, Microsoft has released a tool for finding and importing Outlook PST files into modern Exchange environments. The tool will also help Microsoft rid itself of the archiving format, which it no longer sees as necessary. Microsoft…

Internet Explorer 9, Outlook 2010 (you can’t blame Exchange connection issues solely on Outlook) and Windows Live Mail 2009/2011 are excellent. I’d never use IE9 though, Firefox and Chrome are much better. All you need to do is open Windows Live Mail and if it finds Outlook Express it migrates. It couldn’t be…

When Thomas Erdbrink, The Washington Post’s correspondent in Tehran, logs on to the Internet in Iran, he never knows whether Gmail and Google Reader, The Post or Facebook will open for him. Increasingly, this is the error message he sees instead of the page he was trying to reach: (Thomas…

The answer should be simple: You. You know your password, you have (hopefully) enabled two-way authentication to ensure that only you could access your Inbox even if somebody else acquired your password, and you don’t plan to leave devices like your Gmail-connected smartphone lying around for just anyone to use….

I have experienced the same you say… but in my field 3d design/animation. Im a 3d designer, i use Autodesk products sometimes, do you think they are cheap? no, they are more than $3000 each license.some people complain about it, and question why autodesk has this monopoly and has expensive…

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SharePoint administration solutions, announced Idera SharePoint encrypt. Idera SharePoint encrypt joins Idera SharePoint enterprise manage and Idera SharePoint audit to provide a comprehensive solution for SharePoint administration and security management available. The solution encompasses security rights and permissions management, activity auditing, and content encryption to…

Microsoft’s Steven Sinofksy has written an explanation of the Win8-on-ARM position. Win8 on X86/64 and Win8 on ARM (WOA) will ship at about the same time but will be very different. Applications from one platform will apparently not run on the other.

February 14 is Patch Tuesday. This month there are nine security updates, four critical, aimed at Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, .Net, and Silverlight.

Windows on ARM (WOA) is not a desktop platform. It’s something more like a smartphone operating system. As such it may be in a position to compete with Apple’s iPad.

The Start button has been around since Win95. We’ve grown accustomed to that little globe in the corner of our screens. What possible justification can there be to removing it?