Vladimir Putin, the Russian President has called for more ‘digital sovereignty’ and the Moscow city council is obliging by uninstalling Microsoft Office. The Moscow city government will switch away from Office. Firstly, on 6,000 computers and eventually the machines for all 600,000 employees. It’ll be replaced by MyOffice from New Cloud Technologies based in Moscow […]
Last week we talked about Hewlett-Packard’s attempt to boost revenue by changing their printers to stop non-HP ink cartridges from working. Today they’ve announced a rollback of that update. In about two weeks from now they’ll release a firmware update. That update should remove the need for cartridges that have a HP approved ID chip. […]
A 2016 survey reported that 40% of organizations store passwords and login details in a Word document or Excel spreadsheet. Is that such a bad thing? The survey also says that 28% use a shared server or USB stick to retain login details. All this is being reported as a ‘bad thing’ but we’re not […]
Sometimes it seems that Outlook is automatically deleting old messages or messages you want can’t be found – where could they be? This is an occasional question and hard to answer. Let’s look at some of the possibilities for missing messages, starting with the most common problem we see. Online Spam Filters These days it’s […]
Microsoft is now rolling out more of their Mentions feature showing that it goes beyond a simple addition to Outlook. Mentions uses the idea of @<username> tags (borrowed shamelessly from Twitter) to extend your options for searching within messages. The feature is in the current previews of Office for Windows and Mac. It’ll eventually be […]
