The Windows 7 Procrastinators

No, not everyone has migrated to Windows 7 yet. Some are even willing to gamble on Microsoft extending the support date for WinXP past April 2014.

Posted on: March 9, 2010 9:00 am

Mainsoft introduces Harmony

Harmony turns e-mail into a collaboration console letting users share and collaborate on Google Docs and SharePoint docs from their familiar Outlook environment, all without sending attachments.

Posted on: March 9, 2010 9:00 am

World Conference on Technical Service and Support

This conference for technical service and support professionals will be held March 16-19, 2010 in Orlando, FL. Some discounts are still available.

Posted on: March 8, 2010 9:00 am

Microsoft Delivers Feature-Rich SSL-VPN

Microsoft purchased Whale Communications SSL VPN a few years ago and has worked to integrate the product with Vista and Windows 7 technologies. Now known as Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 the product is a software-only solution.

Posted on: March 8, 2010 9:00 am

Microsoft Readies 8 Windows, Office Patches

Tomorrow is Patch Tuesday. Patches are included for bugs in the operating systems – WinXP, Vista, and Win7 – as well as for Excel for Windows 2002, 2003, 2007 and Excel for Mac 2004 and 2008.

Posted on: March 8, 2010 9:00 am

Energizer Bunny’s Software Infects PCs

Software that came with Energizer’s DUO USB battery charger has been found to include Trojan malware. The malware opens the infected PC to total control by a hacker.

Posted on: March 8, 2010 9:00 am

New article: Removing an Office installation that doesn’t want to go away

This is the one where we help a reader manually uninstall Office 2010.

Read this OutlookPower article.

Posted on: March 7, 2010 9:00 am

Microsoft Predicts Tame Patch Tuesday for March

After pushing out a record number of patches in February, Microsoft says Patch Tuesday for March will only have two security bulletins. Missing will be a patch for the "F1" exploit.

Posted on: March 5, 2010 9:00 am

Microsoft’s Tax-for-Hacks ‘Horrible’ Idea

Microsoft has proposed an internet "tax", levied on all internet users, to pay for fighting hackers. Critics have suggested that instead of taxing users, Microsoft should lower the price of the, more secure, Windows 7 OS to get people away from problem-laden WinXP.

Posted on: March 5, 2010 9:00 am

Microsoft re-releases Blue Screen of Death fix

Patch MS10-015, that caused some WinXP machines to blue-screen, has been re-released. Now, if the patch detects the Alureon rootkit on the machine it will not install.

Posted on: March 5, 2010 9:00 am