
Wednesday I was fortunate to be invited to the local Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 launch event in the Netherlands. As you can read in the press release “Microsoft Delivers the Future of Productivity With Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010“: “Microsoft announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, as well as Microsoft [...]

Last week Facebook announced the release of Microsoft Docs -a collaborative project of Microsoft and Facebook- during the Facebook F8 conference. In addition to the Microsoft Docs introduction of Lili Cheng, General Manager of FUSE Labs, you can read the following description of Microsoft Docs on the Fuse Labs website: “Discover. Create. Share. Now you can discover, [...]

Microsoft TechNet_Live, an event for IT Professionals and Technical Decision Makers, is held on October 8th in the World Forum Conference Centre, The Hague (Netherlands). During the Microsoft TechNet_Live Event Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010 are launched for the business market in The Netherlands. The session that I personally was most excited about [...]

I’m using Evernote software on multiple platforms since the early start a little more than a year ago, because one of the limitations of Microsoft Exchange Activesync is the ability to synchronize notes directly over the air to your Windows Phone. “Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find [...]

Over the past 1.5 years I’ve been using a HP Compaq NC6320, but recently I switched to a Lenovo X60 tablet as my primary notebook. I will provide some arguments for my choice and interesting facts about the device. After 1,5 years the HP/Compaq NC6320 is technically still a very robust and rock solid device. [...]

Some among us remember the big browser wars in the late 90′s between Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Research suggests that a second period of browserwars has started in 2003, and still is going on. [ref01] Today Google entered the battlefield, by opening up the beta to the big public of their webbrowser called [...]

Since my HP Compaq NC6320 notebook was Vista-capable, I could order an upgrade for about E20,- being just the administration and shipping costs. Since that time I ran Windows Vista Business 32bit and later the Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit version. While in some large companies are still internally discussing whether to stay with the current [...]

Today a new version of the nice freeware file explorer Total Commander from Christian Ghisler is released. Both the versions for touchscreen devices as well as the non touchscreen version are upgraded. Those of you who were favourites of Norton Commander in the past probably know the Total Commander desktop software, with its two window [...]

Last Friday a new version of the free encryption program Truecrypt is released. This encryption software is available for the large software platforms Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Therefore it’s available for a wide public, and the best thing it’s freeware. Personally I use this software for quite some years to protect my important [...]

Xobni is the word inbox backwards spelled, and as you can guess it’s a powerful plugin for Microsoft Outlook. While it has been in a private beta for quite some time, now (= a few weeks) is this plugin available in a public beta. After installing the plugin an additional pane is added to your [...]