A couple of posts ago, I talked about Microsoft’s potential move into cloud computing. However, since that time, Microsoft formally announced their development of a cloud-based system and cloud computing has been getting even more media attention. This post is a follow-up to the previous post, and it is meant to be a quick guide […]

In the past decade, email has become one of the most central applications of any manager. Still, email programs have not changed much. Since the amount of email we get has grown tremendously, email has a significant impact on our overall productivity. The average information worker gets far more mail than s/he can cope with, […]

Looking for Bright Spots While the gloom and doom has been the prevalent sentiment so far (see Part I), a few folks dared to share more optimistic views (see this post on Webmonkey, for instance). We also decided to chip in our two cents and look for some bright spots in the sudden darkness descending on […]

Microsoft has traditionally been a company that sells packaged software for personal computers. However, as several companies have recently created online environments for running applications, Microsoft has quickly changed their strategy to compete with this new model (which is now often called “cloud computing”). As described in MIT’s Technology Review, “a computing cloud is made by […]