Windows 7 includes a little-known new feature called Virtual Wi-Fi, which effectively turns your PC or laptop into a software-based router. Any other Wi-Fi-enabled devices within range – a desktop, laptop, an iPod perhaps – will “see” you as a new network and, once logged on, immediately be able to share your internet connection to [...]

If you “Right Click” and “Pin to Taskbar” on any application an icon will permanently show on your taskbar.  If you assign a number to the icon at the time you pin it the shortcuts now automatically have a hotkey assigned to them. When looking at the taskbar, all of the pinned items or open [...]

“The more things change the more they stay the same.” Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr said it well over 100 years ago and this phrase is still true today. Today’s example of this well worn phrase is the present day mobile phone wars. Today’s smartphones are pocket personal computers that happen to make phone calls. In the [...]

You will use “Extra Outlook” if you have 2003 or 2007 and if you have 2010 then you are just too cool. Just throw on some shades at night and add as many exchange accounts as you wish. sources : Click Here for All source downloads (including Extra Oultook) Click Here to get Extra Outlook from [...]

Microsoft said Thursday, August 13th that it plans to develop a new version of its Outlook email client for Apple computers to replace its Mac-based Entourage product. This will allow Mac users to fully integrate their Exchange mailboxes, public folders, contacts, and calendars into their OS 10.6 Snow Leopard OS’s when released. “Outlook will be [...]

Microsoft and Google continue to slug it out in the press. In a recent blog post, I wrote that Google is releasing their first attempt at building a better computer operating system, a direct shot at Microsoft’s domination, and a powerful addition to the Google Apps suite of office productivity tools offered online for free [...]

It’s no secret that Microsoft considers Google to be their #1 competitor these days. Google seems to have their hands in everything, and they are encroaching further and further into the products that are Microsoft’s major cash cows – The Windows Operating System and the Office platform. But it all starts with search. Google has [...]

Microsoft applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing; this patent application was published on Christmas Day. U.S. patent application number 20080319910. What exactly is “Pay-as-you-go” computing, you ask? Microsoft’s pay-as-you-go vision calls for a basic, standard model of a PC to be either given away by a high up in the supply chain (either [...]

Microsoft was the darling of the busines world for years and years, and then they became the company that everybody loved to hate. Too successful, too aggressive, and too rich. That’s a funny thing about success in America. We love the success story…until they become too successful. The business world, the public, and the court [...]

You’ve probably heard the phrase Cloud Computing at some point in the last six months – it’s been a hot topic. Well, Microsoft has now officially entered the cloud computing game, with the recent announcement of the Azure Cloud Computing Platform. What is Azure? it’s a platform technology and set of development tools that will [...]