Microsoft has the enter­prise market cornered with its Office produc­tivity suite. Skill with Outlook, Excel and Word is pretty much required in the corporate world. As a result, most companies have signif­icant data tied up in the propri­etary binary file formats doc and xls. This is not to mention all the web-based software designed for […]

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There has been a migration in recent years from the desktop as primary computer to the laptop. As the cost of the laptop relative to its perfor­mance specs decreased, more and more people were finding that the benefits of mobility and a small form factor justified moving to a laptop. Enter the netbook. These are […]

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Last night, protests that have been taking place in Toronto for the past few weeks at Queen’s Park and the US Consulate spilled onto the Gardiner Expressway, the elevated freeway that runs through downtown. It was this event that brought home to me on a personal level the way the world is changing when it […]

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On the heels of this recent story out of the UK about the government losing 25 million citizens’ personal data, IT security guru Bruce Schneier provides his tips on securing your laptop, especially critical for those us with client data on our drives: Longer keys increase the amount of work the defender has to do […]

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As long as your browser is Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, you can take the latest edition of Microsoft Office for a test drive without having to install a thing. Experience the bliss of the ribbon, the new UI metaphor that has already won my heart over. I loathe still having to do my work […]

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