Windows Home Server, Small Business Server 2011 RCs

Release Candidates for Small Business Server Essentials (SBS) and Windows Home Server 2011 have been made available. SBS 2011 includes cloud integration features.

Posted on: February 3, 2011 9:00 am

Lady Redmond doth protest too much

Google claimed Microsoft lifted their search results for Bing directly from Google. Microsoft claims Google is being a whiny little kid. Maybe both of them should learn to play nice.

Posted on: February 3, 2011 9:00 am

Microsoft Office Alternatives

It isn’t necessary to pay a lot for quality office productivity software. This article reviews IBM Lotus Symphony, LibreOffice, Google Docs, Zoho, and SoftMaker Office.

Posted on: February 3, 2011 9:00 am

Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome

By default Chrome does not support H.264-encoded videos. This means it can’t use the Windows Media Player plug-in. Microsoft has "fixed" the problem by building an extension for Chrome 8 or later.

Posted on: February 2, 2011 9:00 am

Yahoo: Don’t blame us

The folks at Yahoo are not happy about taking the blame for WinPhone7 problems. Yahoo says the problem comes from the way Microsoft implemented IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). Microsoft has offered a workaround for the problem.

Posted on: February 2, 2011 9:00 am

Microsoft Pulls a Fast One on Google

Google’s search engine has been producing results, mostly good, for a number of years. Now Microsoft is trying to challenge Google with Bing, using Google’s search results. This doesn’t speak highly of either Microsoft or their "search engine".

Posted on: February 2, 2011 9:00 am

When the bug in the system is actually a person

Computers and software can only do so much. When the people stop working, all bets are off, as this programmer discovered.

Posted on: February 2, 2011 9:00 am

Document Management Between Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint

Workshare has released Workshare Point, enabling you to retrieve and file content to Microsoft SharePoint without leaving Microsoft Office applications such as Word or Outlook.

Posted on: February 1, 2011 9:00 am

Microsoft says Yahoo is ‘phantom data’ phone bug source

People with WP7 phones have been surprised by large data bills, apparently racked up by their phone. Microsoft, still working on a fix, has finally admitted the culprit is Yahoo.

Posted on: February 1, 2011 9:00 am

Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results

The people at Google are upset with the people at Microsoft. It seems those behind the Bing search engine have been copying search results from Google to try and improve Bing.

Posted on: February 1, 2011 9:00 am