Articles in category 'Microsoft'

One of our companies has a hugely distributed staff. One of their biggest problems has been collaborating with each other to get things done. Email had been the biggest workhorse in the battle, but that adds a ton of complexity to the situation. There were so many multiple versions of documents it took a lot […]

September 22, 2007, 2:37 pm o'clock

I’ve resisted the plunge to Office 2007 for months now. I couldn’t see the need of the thing when Office 2003 was still kicking butt for me. I use Project, Outlook, Visio, and Excel daily and Word at least half the week. I also am a fan of open source. Therefore, I’ve been using OpenOffice […]

July 6, 2007, 10:36 am o'clock

This post arose out of a situation where I had given some bad poop (Army term for information) about how to control mailbox sizes by OU at Experts Exchange. I was mistakenly thinking of something smelling a lot better!
Any hoots, since I delayed the answer, I wrote this script to accomplish what the guy […]

April 30, 2007, 11:17 am o'clock

Recently I ran across an issue that it seems lots of folks have, hidden user mailboxes on Microsoft Exchange. Imagine my surprise when I got that call, “We have hidden users on a server! We must be relaying Spam or something!!” Not knowing more at that moment, I got a little nervous, as I was […]

March 24, 2007, 10:44 am o'clock

I’ve said it before here, that Microsoft should just leave the EU. They won’t be happy until Microsoft’s competitiveness is gone, and some half baked software company is out peddling alpha-ware to businesses. Not that Microsoft is clean in that aspect. Vista is proving that!
My real question is, who are they targeting after […]

March 7, 2007, 9:46 pm o'clock

Bill has RTMed his latest assault vying for world domination. After being asked what I thought about it, as if someone really cares what I think, I thought I would put a few comments here.
Vista is pretty. I don’t like it. I am a command line guy mostly. I can work faster with the CLI […]

December 1, 2006, 7:26 am o'clock

Why? Not just the fine they are about to impose. Not that Microsoft already gave them the source code in question. (That was a great move by Microsoft BTW.) Not that they haven’t been unfair in how competitors are stifled to the point of bankruptcy. It is all about arrogance.
Don’t get me wrong, Microsoft has […]

February 22, 2006, 3:56 am o'clock