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Microsoft and Box heat up the cloud

Microsoft and Box heat up the cloud

By Phil Wainewright on August 1, 2012

The race to build a winning platform for files in the cloud warmed some more today with Microsoft’s Hotmail makeover and Box’s $125m funding round

Posted in Business | Tagged Box, collaboration, Hotmail, microsoft, outlook, skype

Learn from the Gmail Fiasco: You Need Redundant Copies of Your Email–Don’t Worry, It’s Painless :-)

Learn from the Gmail Fiasco: You Need Redundant Copies of Your Email–Don’t Worry, It’s Painless :-)

By Zoli Erdos on March 1, 2011

A few hundred thousand (numbers range from 150k to 500K) Gmail and Google Apps users had the scary experience of losing ALL their email content yesterday.  Their account was accidentally “reset”.  Google acknowledged the error, and issued a statement that they are working on restoring “lost” content. Let’s stop and think here a minute.  Is […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged application software, backup, data backup, email, Email client, gmail, google, Google Account, google apps, Hotmail, Internet Message Access Protocol, outlook, zoho mail, Zoho Office Suite

Gmail, Don’t be a Yahoo!

Gmail, Don’t be a Yahoo!

By Zoli Erdos on November 5, 2010

In the 90’s I used to laugh at friends who all used Yahoo! as their personal email service. I did not understand how anyone could put up with the slow speeds of web-mail, and tried to convince them to install a decent email client, like Outlook, which is what most of them used in their […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged application software, gmail, google, google apps, Hotmail, outlook, performance, Productivity, SaaS, Yahoo, zoho, zoho mail | 4 Responses

Dear Microsoft, Why Do You Make It So Difficult?

Dear Microsoft, Why Do You Make It So Difficult?

By Jeff Nolan on May 25, 2010

Like a lot of people I paid attention when Microsoft updated Hotmail and declared war on Gmail. That’s a bold move and to pull it off they must be confident that the features they are delivering really are transformative… but having done it with Bing (love it, don’t use Google much at all anymore) I […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Bing, google, Hotmail, Live.com, microsoft, obstacle course, User Experience | 1 Response

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