On Monday, Microsoft shipped its new Outlook Connector beta for Windows Live Hotmail. I'll be reviewing this product, and the related Windows Live Mail Beta release, together this week. In the meantime, here are a few shots to tide you over...
In this part of my Office 2007 Beta 2 review, I'd like to highlight another Office application in which I spend a lot of time, OneNote. The first time I was briefed about the initial version of OneNote, I thought someone was playing a joke on me...
Part 2a of my Office 2007 Beta 2 review, I noted that I "live" in Microsoft Word, and while that's certainly true, I do spend a lot of time interacting with Outlook as well: In addition to being my email interface, Outlook plots my schedule, keeps...
Way back in 1994 or so, while downloading floppy disk images for an early version of the Slackware Linux distribution at Scottsdale Community College near Phoenix, Arizona, I asked a friend--now a Microsoft employee, incidentally--how the software...
Microsoft PowerPoint looks simple to use. It should be simple to use. But Microsoft has made it anything but simple, due to some design and execution faux pas. Share the following tips with your users— heck, use PowerPoint yourself—and help them...
Rumors of Microsoft's involvement in the PC health and safety market began appearing several years ago, back when Windows Vista was still called Longhorn and was expected to ship in 2003 or 2004. In July 2003, I wrote an editorial for Windows IT...
With the March 2006 release of the Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 1 Tech Refresh (TR), we're finally getting a hands-on look at the final user interface for this version of Office. Microsoft says the new UI is designed to make the overall software...
As perhaps the most visible and eagerly awaited of Microsoft's "rolling thunder" series of Windows Live-related releases, Windows Live Messenger, the follow-up to MSN Messenger 7 (see my review) is perhaps the perfect example of what the software...