It may be a bit late for this, but here’s eight things Microsoft could do NOW that would dramatically make my – and judging by some of the web searches I’ve done, lots of other people’s – experience of Office better. (more…)

Bit of an oddity, this. I spotted on All About Microsoft (written by Mary Jo Foley, who’s been covering the company long enough to know more about them than most MS executives, I should imagine) that Exchange Server 2007 doesn’t work on Windows Server 2008 release 2. The question is: why doesn’t it? Not that they haven’t got form for this kind of nonsense, of course. (more…)

In 2007 I talked about 10 things I do and don’t like about Windows Vista. So here are 5 things Windows doesn’t have that it ought to blatantly copy for Windows 8… (more…)

Bit of disk corruption splattered all my emails in Thunderbird.  Fortunately most were still there in Google Mail, and I had a backup (from May) of the profile, and I managed to rebuild most of it. (more…)

Isn’t hindsight wonderful?  Just re-installed VB5 because there’s an old VB project I need to modify and saw this in the install screens…

“software that automatically downloads and installs on a user machine”.  Now who would ever have thought that could be a problem, eh?