We’ll push past the pages of fancy wording from Microsoft and get to the heart of what Office Genuine Advantage is and what it means to you. Office Genuine Advantage is a system to check if your copy of Microsoft Office is properly licensed. It’s only done on particular occasions and with your advance approval. […]
Microsoft’s ActiveSync is the program that connects a Pocket PC / Windows Mobile device to Windows, the Internet and Office. Your Outlook contacts, tasks, appointments, messages and notes can be synced with the device. ACTIVESYNC 4.2 BETA Microsoft’s ActiveSync is the program that connects a Pocket PC / Windows Mobile device to Windows, the Internet […]
Google has released their online calendar program and for a first effort it’s very impressive. GOOGLE CALENDAR AND OUTLOOK Google has released their online calendar program http://calendar.google.com and for a first effort it’s very impressive. As regular readers might know, we’re not big fans of this headlong rush to Internet based systems. They have a […]
Why there are two Outlook file formats, both called .PST and how convert to the better one. Outlook stores all your email, appointments etc in one big file with the extension .PST with the exception of those connected to Exchange Server machines when it’s called an .OST file. With Outlook 2003 Microsoft updated the PST […]
One of our favorite Powertoys gets an update. SyncToy was released as a beta in early August 2005 and we had a full review of it in Office Watch #10.31. Since then, the Microsoft developers have collected feedback and released a version 1.1 with some welcome features including: Support for UNC paths (Universal Naming Convention […]
