Earlier, I gave a rather ebullient guided tour of Windows Live Sync Beta 2011 (which will be known as Windows Live Mesh when it is officially released), touting its groovy potential as a backup tool and cloud storage solution. But since that brief honeymoon phase, I’ve had a chance to move in some of my stuff and I’ll have to admit that I’m having trouble getting comfortable. It seems that much of the pampering I’ve received from old faithful Dropbox has given me some pretty high expectations when it comes to cloud-based syncing and in spite of my optimistic review, I think I’m going to have to stick with Dropbox—for now. Here’s why…

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Like many of you groovySystem Admins out there, I never like to introduce a new product to the corporate environment until the release of a major Service Pack.  I guess that’s why I’m pretty excited to see that Microsoft just released Exchange 2010 SP1 a few days ago.  It’s going to be a longgg weekend for me now!

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Things are getting mighty cloudy over at Microsoft—and the addition of Sync to the Windows Live Essentials suite is making life in the clouds easier than ever. The latest version of Windows Live Sync is seriously upping the ante in the world of automated folder syncing and cloud storage. At first glance, it seems that the frontiers pioneered by the likes of Dropbox and Google Docs just might be tamed, civilized and finally be made accessible and intuitive for the masses by Microsoft. Let’s take a quick look at some of what Windows Live Sync is offering.

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In today’s broadband and mobile internet age, 90% of the work you do on a computer involves the internet. This makes using different browsers sometime necessary, since there is always a browser that is better at one thing and worse at another.  When…

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If you have an Xbox 360 or a Windows Mobile phone, then your best bet on syncing all your music and media would be Windows Media Player 12. Sadly enough you may have already encountered problems refreshing your library and keeping things tidy. But,…

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Busy busy week for Microsoft!  Earlier I mentioned Microsoft ending support for Windows XP SP2 and ending support for Windows Server 2000.  Even more interesting is that Microsoft has finally released Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 BETA.  I mentioned…

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Together with the release of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 Beta for Windows 7. Although Microsoft is saying the download is not for “home user” being that all the new features are for “Corporate Customers”.  That being said, I think based on the quality of Microsoft’s other recent BETA products, this one is probably worth a download.

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Requiescat in Páce (Rest in Peace), Windows XP. Microsoft’s support for Windows XP SP2 ends today. XP SP2 Users will no longer see any notifications about new security updates because there just won’t be any! Details inside regarding what you can do to stay secure.

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Just about a day after Microsoft ended support for Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft also ended support for Windows Server 2000.  Is anyone still running Win2k?  Anyway, getting rid of the technical debt required to keep releasing patches…

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It seems like Microsoft has decided that the taskbar was the optimal choice of real-estate for Live Essentials in Windows 7.  Previously we covered hiding the Windows Live Mail icon in the system tray, but it turns out that Live Messenger has the exact same problem!  Let’s fix it.

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