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Smart Phones vs. PCs
Many (myself included) have assumed that smart phones are poised to take over the computing market and surpass PCs as the primary way in which people around the world consume computing resources, whether they're local applications or web-based/cloud services. It turns out that it's more accurate to say that "phones" (i.e. not just... »
App Inventor for Android
Google has just released a beta version of a tool called App Inventor for Android that lets you "build just about any app you can imagine." Similar in function to early versions of Visual Basic, this is a serious competitive threat to iPhone, Windows Phone, and other smart phone platforms, while harkening... »
Microsoft (Sort Of) Explains What’s Going On With Live Mesh And Live Sync
I'm a day behind on this because yesterday's flight home turned into an all-day affair, but Microsoft posted an explanation about its combining of Live Mesh and Windows Live Sync to the Inside Windows Live blog yesterday and it's worth reading. I explained most of this in my review of Windows Live Sync... »
Office 15 Revealed
Stephen Chapman has unearthed a surprising amount of information about the next version of Microsoft Office, codenamed Office 15. And no, this isn't Office 2010 ("Office 14"), which hasn't even shipped to consumers yet. This is the next version of Office, due in 2013. »
Assessing the risk of the June Security Bulletins
Today we released ten security bulletins . »
Apple Turns Off the Bile, Sells Macs For What They Are
I was a vocal critic of Apple's "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ad campaign for two reasons. One, they often lied about Windows »
Hotmail Numbers, Facts, and Figures
In prepping my review of the new Hotmail over the past week, I started noticing that there were a lot of interesting numbers being tossed around in the meetings I had with Microsoft and in the materials they provided. So I created a simple document to collect them »
Live From New York … It’s the Office 2010 Launch
I'm heading to New York City today for the Office 2010 + SharePoint 2010 launch event featuring Microsoft business division president Stephen Elop. If you want to watch the event live, Microsoft is hosting a virtual launch event online. And I'll be blogging here throughout the day as necessary as well. »
New Windows 7 Offers
Microsoft today is touting its latest round of Windows 7 offers, and this time around the theme is graduation and back-to-school. I guess it's never too early. There are three big deals going on right now »
Use Office 2010 to Map a Drive Letter to SkyDrive
Download Squad has some simple instructions for using Office 2010 (beta or final) to easily map a network drive to your 25 GB of free SkyDrive storage. I usually use a third-party tool like SDExplorer or Gladinet for this, but this is probably even easier. Here's what you'll need to to turn your... »