Scammers can inject Calendar invitations without permission – getting rid of them is a 2 step process
Scammers can spam email invitations to an appointment which automatically get placed in your Outlook Calendar as tentative or not accepted.
Microsoft has left a hole big enough to drive a truck with a virus or Trojan horse in Outlook Office 365. Continue reading
Tami Reller Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer
People are expecting big changes with the next version of Windows 8 but the revolutionary changes are already in place and they work beautifully.
The news of Microsoft’s death from Windows 8 is greatly exaggerated.
Windows 8, the first major change in the world’s most popular operating system in a decade, is on track for success.
In a Q&A with Windows blogger Brandon LeBlanc, Tami Reller Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer dishes out the facts.
From a user point of view, I’ve been using Windows 8 for more than a year and despite the things that need improvement, I would not go back to Windows 7. Continue reading
Charlottetown Guardian erects paywall for digital readers – will it be enough (Guardian photo)
From Rupert Murdoch to the 25 local newspapers in the Quebec based Transcontinental chain, newspapers are struggling to survive the double whammy of the digital world and young readers who don’t give a flying fig about reading a paper.
Paywalls, charging for online access, is a temporary fix for the huge decline in newspaper subscription and advertising revenue.
The long-term survival of newspapers is in doubt. Continue reading
Windows 8 Start screen – the future is now
Most of the people telling Microsoft what to do with Windows 8 don’t have a clue. Microsoft should ignore 99% of what is being printed and stick to their guns. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with Windows 8 but it needs work. Continue reading
Internet Explorer 10 will not save login passwords
Recent security patches of Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 forced uses to revert to simple login password combinations since the browser stopped saving them.
Microsoft appears to be unable to fix the problem which occurs randomly. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
The logins and passwords are being stored on the computer and can be viewed.
Internet Explorer will not, however, retrieve them when you return to a stored site.
The practical result is that users revert from complex hard to crack passwords to simple passwords and begin using the same password for all sites. Continue reading
Xbox Music update has volume control but still cannot read meta tags for your music
Another night, another tiny step towards making Windows 8 an adult operating system with the update to xbox Music. Crayons anyone?
I don’t want to seem negative but it is hard to commend Microsoft’s programmers for the addition of a volume control, cloud sync and rudimentary library controls in a music player.
Mail Calendar and People get mid-term update on the road to real app-dom
The much ballyhooed update of core Windows 8 apps came over night on Monday. You may miss the subtle changes if you don’t look closely.
SkyDrive also got an upgrade that seems positive. I’ll research that a little more and report back.
My personal hopes of seeing People fixed so that social media Sharing would work were dashed. People is still an unorganized and buggy app to avoid.
This is a slow march for Microsoft towards creating a Windows-8-only world in which we don’t or can’t fall back on our favorite Desktop applications like Outlook and Facebook. If that is good or bad is up to you to decide. Continue reading