Jim Rapoza

With the Microsoft earnings report this week, the big news was the first ever year-over-year decline in quarterly revenue for the software giant. But to me the interesting news in the report was the fact that the company’s servers and tools unit surpassed the client unit (which includes the Windows OS) to become the biggest […]

You love technology. Whenever the coolest new gadgets and tools come out, you rush to get them (or at least start planning to get them in the near future). Technology is at the center of nearly everything you do-from work to home to social settings. Simply put, you are about as far from a Luddite […]

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Includes Welcome Improvements by Jim Rapoza Conversation View The Conversation view available in Outlook Web Access provides a threaded mode for following e-mail conversations. ActiveSync The beta of Exchange Server 2010 lets companies control how different devices can sync to user accounts through ActiveSync. Exchange Control Panel The Exchange Control Panel […]

Over the last three years, the world of e-mail and Internet communications has changed quite a bit. The growth of cloud-based services and Web-based messaging solutions, most notably Google Gmail, has changed the way people and businesses (especially small businesses) look at messaging. But while small businesses have started to move to services such as […]

With mergers and company failures regularly in the news, the amount of healthy competition in the technology world is clearly decreasing. This, of course, means that more companies will gain a monopoly in their markets. This got me thinking about monopolies in general and the companies that are typically seen as monopolists in the technology […]

Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8 Is All Business, eWEEK Labs Finds No Title The Internet Explorer Administration Kit comes in versions for ISPs, Websites, software vendors and corporations. (I tested the corporate version.) No Title Upon launching the IEAK 8 Customization Wizard, admins can choose the Windows platform for which they are building a custom […]

When I tested Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, I found that it was a significant improvement over previous versions, but it lagged behind competing browsers-such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera Software’s Opera-in some features and capabilities. However, there is one area in which IE 8 has a big advantage over its competitors, […]

Is the devil you know—and expect—better than the one you don’t? Consider this: You run into person No. 1—let’s call her Melissa—on the street. Without warning, Melissa hits you in the face and then proceeds to beat you up as you lie on the ground. Then, person No. 2, Michelangelo, walks up to you and […]

Click here to see the slideshowpresto3.pngWhile the varying parties in the operating system wars like to tout the advantages that each OS holds over its rivals, all of them share one thing in common. Whether it’s Linux, Mac OS X or Windows, none of them are particularly quick about booting up, especially if one is […]

Xandros Presto Beta Brings Linux Instant-Boot Capability to Windows-Based Systems, eWEEK Labs Finds by Jim Rapoza Boot Quickly Xandros Presto, when installed on a Windows system, makes it possible to quickly boot into a lightweight Linux OS that provides access to most core online applications. Firefox Browser The included Mozilla Firefox browser in Presto lets […]