Researchers at Black Hat have said that they’ve found Windows 7′s Enterprise security to be better than that of Apple’s OS X operating system. The problems for OS X seem to stem from user privileges.  While Windows 7 isn’t perfect, OS X seems to have more “soft spots” according to a report by Network World.  [...]

Categories: Apple, Microsoft

Microsoft have now released their popular note-taking app, OneNote for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch.  The program, which is part of their Office suite is popular with people wanting to make notes in meetings of who want to jot down thoughts on the go. While built-into the company’s own Windows Phone operating system, iOS is [...]

Categories: iPhone, iPod, Microsoft

Last month Microsoft changed the default log-in experience on their Live services, which include Hotmail.  The change meant doing away with the tile you could click (that was also more finger-friendly) and the “Remember me” box and replacing them with a more ‘traditional’ text entry box for your username. In order to make the system [...]

Categories: Microsoft

It’s very common for the major technology companies to release video adverts for their products that deride or poke fun at the competition, probably the best example of these are Apple’s excellent parodies of Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” adverts. Now though Microsoft are hitting out at Google with the introduction of the Gmail man, an annoying [...]

Categories: Google, Microsoft

Despite the problematic relationship between Microsoft and Linux vendors over the years, it’s not always been a case of frosty relationships.  Previously Microsoft decided to work closely with Novell on the Enterprise version of SUSE Linux, and now the company has renewed their alliance with SUSE by purchasing $100 million of support. This support will be [...]

Categories: Linux, Microsoft, Windows

Online photo sharing websites are very cool.  They’re a great way of being able to share with your friends and family your adventures, holidays, events and special occasions without clogging up everybody’s inbox with photos they may not want to see.  Let’s face it, not everybody will be interested in photos of my holiday to [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

If you use Microsoft’s Outlook Connector software to synchronise Microsoft Outlook on your PC with your Hotmail or GMail account, then you might want to read this.  It’s become apparent that the latest update to the software, part of Microsoft’s Live Essentials Suite, has broken the calendar synchronisation with Hotmail, and may also be causing [...]

Categories: Microsoft

I’m pretty excited about Windows 8, Microsoft’s next operating system. That does not mean that I’m perfectly happy with Windows 7, the company’s current operating system. Windows 7 is a great operating system that could be as successful as Windows XP, if it had the same amount of time at hand and a successor that [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

For the last few days I’ve been using the new beta update to Microsoft’s smartphone operating system, Windows Phone, on my HTC handset.  I’ve written a full hands-on review of this ‘Mango’ update at our sister website Windows7News.  It’s a great update and finally brings full cloud services to smartphones with the integration of SkyDrive [...]

Categories: Mobile Computing, Mobiles, Online Services, Security