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I'm currently plotting my migration away from Gmail and to Microsoft's email services, so this is interesting timing for me. In the past few weeks, Microsoft has announced a number of improvements to its free web-based email service, Hotmail. And...
Before there was Windows Live, Microsoft's Internet services brand was MSN, which was originally shorthand for "The Microsoft Network" and was marketed as a CompuServe-like dial-up Internet access service that was bundled in Windows 95. It's hard...
My first meaningful experience with Microsoft Office came in 1993, while I was still a diehard Amiga owner but could see that the end was in sight. Since my wife was working at a technology training company in Phoenix at the time, I was able to...
While most readers are likely familiar with the name SharePoint, it's equally likely that many of you, like me, rarely if ever actually use the product. I aim to change that. Thanks to my testing of the Office 365 service over the past nine months...
I'm coincidentally working on the first of a series of articles on SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online that I hope to post today, but Microsoft wrote in to note that a related announcement today about some nice changes to the product's data...
With the official Microsoft Office 365 launch last week, and all its related build-up and hoopla, I've been speaking with a lot of cloud vendors lately. Naturally, everyone wants to share what they can do to help customers who plan to adopt...
So much for the single feature in Google Docs that was actually better that what was available in Microsoft's Office Web Apps: You can now co-author documents in real time in Word Web App in SkyDrive. This allows multiple people to collaborate...
Microsoft's Hotmail web email service celebrated its 15 anniversary yesterday--few remember, but the service was originally called HoTMaiL because those capitalized letters form HTML, the web's markup language--but instead of a massive...
Microsoft today announced a major update to its free Bing for iPad app. This new version of the app includes a new feature, Lasso, which is a new way to search with the touch of a finger, and a variety of other updates. Here's the news from the...
Ed Bott has written an interesting blog post about dropping Dropbox for Windows Live Mesh. But the question that I immediately have is, why the heck would any Windows user even use Dropbox in the first place? For Windows users, Windows Live Mesh...