The new OUTLOOK.COM looks very similar to Windows Mail in Windows 8 (and to a lesser degree Outlook 2013) with an ultra clean “metro” layout. Microsoft said the new web interface has 60% fewer pixels than Hotmail and as you can see in plain screen shot below, I don’t think […]
It will be called Office 2013. According to Marry-Jo Folley, TechEd 2012 had a few demos using Office 2013 branding so while this has not been officially announced yet, it would appear to be the case. See the yellow bar in the graphic below Office 15 = Office 2013 http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/excel2013rt.png She […]
Companies are notorious for providing questionable MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure). Disks are no exception to this rule. We found that www.behardware.com had acquired actual return rates and so we took their number and compiled the following list. The numbers are …taken from a large French etailer, whose database we have […]
Microsoft will have Office365 Academic pricing available in Canada and U.S. this summer but does not have a fixed date yet. The pricing is astonishingly cheap; for about $5.50 per month per account, Education eligible organizations receive the $27 per month corporate package: the FULL Office 2010 suite (Outlook, Word, […]
Office 15 (likely Office 2013) is in private beta now and will have a public beta your can play with next month, in June 2012. The product should release to manufacturing (RTM) late this year and likely be available to buy very early in 2013. Initially users will notice that the […]
Well, a lot of readers will ask; what is 4K, or as it is sometimes refered to QFHD (Quad Full High Definition)? Put simply “4K” is 4000 pixels x 2160 pixels. So if I have a TV that is 1920×1080 (so called 1080P) now, why would I want twice that number of […]
Microsoft announced that Windows 8 will ship this year and will come in two common forms at retail and OEM outlets: Windows 8 Windows 8 Pro Microsofts Brandon LeBlanc explains the difference: Windows 8 Pro is designed to help tech enthusiasts and business/technical professionals obtain a broader set of Windows […]
Here is my ‘Desktop Color Printer Evaluation’ in Excel format. You can use it as a template for evaluating other printer products. It covers obvious items like printer cost and pages per minutes as well as less obvious but very important criteria like second paper tray cost and memory. In the […]
I recently had a client request to supply some Visitor / Guest Management software for a office reception that saw between 5 and 30 visitors a day. They felt that their sign in log book made the company look old and out of touch. After an hour of research I could […]
I was going to write an article like this at the end of the week but Telus sent this most excellent explaination right to me… so here it is What’s the difference between 4G and LTE? by shishirchand Today marks the launch of the TELUS 4G LTE wireless service in 14 […]
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This isn an excelled parody of the new campaign by Apple for the iPad 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW37nPzpAwY&feature=player_embedded#!
OK. OK… Sooo, here is my logic for even trying a Windows Mobile 7 phone: Windows CE 6.5 was great in 2004 but it just didn’t keep pace and by 2006 I had given up and moved my clients to Blackberry. That was a good decision. Apple is incapable of producing […]
Well, I have had enough of BackupExec. Its really too bad that Symantec’s combination of high pricing and brutal technical support wait times and driven Veritas’ excellent product into the ground… but that is where I find it. As such I have been researching a few other products and this […]
NORTELS DEAD: What are you going to do now? It used to be so easy to choose a quality phone system that would last 15+ years with almost no maintenace, but then Nortel went Bankrupt. In 2006 Nortel (Bell Canada) had 82% of the North American corporate phone market, was huge […]
Well, I wrote the Install BESx on a Single Exchange 2010 Server last year and I am pleasantly surprised that RIM has since developed an excellent interactive instruction “tutorial”. Other than the first few items, I will keep my numbering related to that “tutorial” and that will make my instructions much shorter: […]