Category: Software

That annoying “Click to Activate” message you occasionally see when you click on some fancy web site control is finally going to go away. Details are in this Microsoft blog. Hurray!

The Groove Advisor blog has a link to a new white paper that helps companies decide whether to use Groove Server or Groove Enterprise Services. But the white paper doesn’t say anything about companies whose Groove deployment may be too small even for Groove Enterprise Services. I would really like to have a better understanding [...]

More and more people are asking me about Vista these days. You know, it’s really not all that different from Windows XP. However, you will notice a few different things about the user interface. For example, the Ctrl-Alt-Delete screen is a lot prettier: And they even show you your picture when you put in your [...]

Me too. Here’s an article from MCP Magazine with some suggestions for improving performance and troubleshooting Outlook’s inability to close properly.

This is not a very interesting issue for the “masses.” I’m posting this in the hope that someone else will find it later and be spared some time troubleshooting. Here was the scenario: Server: SBS 2003 Standard SP1, Exchange 2003 SP2 Don and Jorge have WM5 phones Don had absolutely no problem synchronizing his phone [...]

See Mary Jo Foley’s write-up of Microsoft Office Live Workspace. Why Microsoft insists on calling multiple different products with the same name, I’ll never understand. I’ve signed up for the MOLW beta waiting list. I’ll let you know what I think if and when I’m allowed in.

 Here’s ZDNet columnist Mary Jo Foley’s view on Microsoft’s decision to delay the deadline to cut off sales of XP on new computers: » Is Windows XP too good for Microsoft’s own good? I take the view that XP ain’t broke and am only recommending Vista on new computers in rare circumstances. Looks like I’ll [...]

A client of mine is preparing a presentation that will include logos from several of their business partners. They asked these business partners to send logo files that could be inserted into a PowerPoint presentation. Many partners sent .jpg or .gif images that my client had no trouble copying and pasting in, but some partners [...]

WebHost4Life’s SharePoint hosting architecture seems to mirror that of Mail2Web. Both of these companies allow me to create a SharePoint site in a subdomain of a domain hosted elsewhere, unlike 1&1. Both WebHost4Life and Mail2Web allow me to access my site at a fixed IP address prior to creating an A record in my authoritative [...]

Still waiting for WebHost4Life to set up my SharePoint hosting site, so in the meantime I set up an account at Mail2Web.com instead. Setup wasn’t instant, but at least it didn’t require me to contact support. I just had to wait 23 minutes after placing the order until an e-mail arrived with further instructions. Mail2web [...]