Three ways the Microsoft Outlook Web App interface sucks
Speaking as an end-user, not a Microsoft Exchange 2010 administrator: 1) In the default theme (apparently unchangeable by the end user), highlighted messages are displayed in a way-too-subtle shade of...
View ArticleUsing the Sun PDF Import OpenOffice extension to collaborate on PDF documents
A seldom-promoted feature of OpenOffice is the ability for users to collaborate on PDFs using the Sun PDF Import extension. It’s a fantastic way to seamlessly share and edit PDF documents, which would...
View ArticleSkype and Microsoft’s silly Bing Bar
Sure-fire sign that Skype is now another fine Microsoft product – and therefore unsuspecting users can expect to have installed a toolbar for a second-rate search engine as well as have their browser...
View ArticleThe fallacy of Firefox “bloat” apropos of comparisons to Google Chrome
Chrome users seem to use the “bloat” argument against Firefox any chance they get, seemingly without being able to back the claim up with anything of substance. So, these recent benchmarks are rather...
View ArticleSkype under Microsoft – would you like additional ads with that call?
Great summary in Ars Technica of recent attempts by the brilliant minds at Microsoft to monetize Skype:...
View ArticleMicrosoft Surface – the short version
There are many words I could waste on the newly announced Microsoft Surface tablet, reflective of the company’s obsession with Apple Inc, and their increasingly obvious hail mary approach to staying...
View ArticleMicrosoft Outlook: UI designers on drugs
Outlook 2010: you want to export a PST of your account contents, you say? Sure – once you’ve flailed around looking for the “Export” button, you in fact achieve this by navigating to “File -> Open”....
View ArticleOn Microsoft rebranding Lync to “Skype for Business”…
I can’t take credit for this one, so I’ll merely copy it here – from the comments section of Ars Technica’s article on the topic in question, regarding Microsoft’s continued confusing blanket branding...
View ArticleOn Windows 10…
Microsoft spent four years hyping Vista, and it was a colossal, costly failure when it was eventually released. They then hyped Windows 8 as some sort of unified miracle OS for desktop and mobile...
View ArticleOn Microsoft killing the Internet Explorer brand
The problem is, Internet Explorer – while a simply awful piece of technology – will forever be associated with being tied to an equally mediocre OS (Microsoft Windows). Open source it already, and kill...
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