When traveling, it is not unusual for me to see more people with tablet devices in the airport than carrying a laptop. Tablets like the iPad are lighter, boot up much more quickly and give users access to the essentials like email, presentations and web...
Microsoft announces Office 365, a new service that brings familiar applications, including Office desktop software and Office Web Apps, together with SharePoint, Exchange and Lync in the cloud, for the first time. In October 2010, Microsoft unveiled a new product offering called Office 365. While the...
Microsoft announced the arrival of its newest office product, called Lync 2010. Lync is considered a convergence of communication methods providing a combination Instant Messenger (IM) client, soft phone and video collaboration tool. The tool is designed to serve as a potential replacement for the...
Beginning in October 2010, Microsoft’s anti-virus protection suite, Security Essentials, will become available to small businesses on ten (10) or fewer PCs at no charge. The following link will direct you to the Microsoft press release: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2010/sep10/09-22SecurityEssentials.mspx Colden Company Inc. has tested this product and has been...
Microsoft's Windows XP operating system was released for retail sale on October 25, 2001. It has had its ups and downs, but overall it is one of the biggest client operating system success stories in Microsoft's long-lived Windows franchise. However, change is inevitable and it...
Many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have taken advantage of the simplicity of Microsoft’s Windows Small Business Server (SBS). SBS is an integrated server suite designed for running the network infrastructure of businesses having no more than 75 workstations or users. SBS incorporates some of...