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4 Tips for Successful Power Platform Deployment

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 by Paul Salmon

Planning to incorporate Microsoft’s Power Platform into your business operations? If yes, this will be among the best decisions you’ll make this year. Why? With the help of power platform experts, it can transform your business significantly. This is because it combines the functionality of three of Microsoft’s products to enable enterprises to analyze data, automate workflow, and even create custom apps on a self-service basis.

A Sneak Peek at Microsoft Edge – the Next Generation of Web Browser

June 2, 2015 by Paul Salmon

Internet Explorer has died. Well, let’s be honest, it has been on its last legs for some time now. Rumors of Project Sparta, Microsoft’s replacement browser, have been circulating for months. Then last April the software giant announced the creation of Microsoft Edge – a revolutionary new web browser.

Featuring a clean interface that is much more consistent with the new direction Microsoft has taken their operating system, Edge provides a look at the future of browsing. Lightweight, stripped down (with over 222,000 lines of code removed), and much faster, all Windows 10 devices will include Edge as their default browser.

One of the major problems that Internet Explorer has faced is its inability to compete in the mobile browser market – making Edge a little late to the game. Safari dominates iOS devices, while Chrome Mobile and Android’s native browser share the majority. Internet Explorer accounts for just 1.8% of the overall mobile browser usage. Microsoft Edge looks set to fix this. Designed to work across devices, Edge is a Web app that will make it a serious contender in the browser world.

Open Source Community Celebrates as Microsoft Loses Majority Share

September 3, 2013June 10, 2013 by Paul Salmon

The open source community scored a major victory this year as the Android OS took the dominant position in mobile market share, easily beating Microsoft’s closed-source mobile phone platform. ZDNet reports that the Android climbed to 75 percent market share in the first quarter of 2013, after enjoying explosive growth. Even though this isn’t a Linux platform, it is very encouraging news for all open-source fans. It is an especially promising sign for the upcoming Ubuntu operating system for smartphones. Gearburn reports that Canonical Ltd. CEO and founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that this new OS will begin shipping in October.

The New and Advanced Features of MS Word 2013

September 29, 2014May 7, 2013 by Guest Blogger

Microsoft Word is one of the popular applications for documenting by all cadres of users whether he/she is a student, or a writer, or writes something for his/her pleasures. Many applications have been developed to give competition to MS Word, but nothing has defeated it till date. This is because; in every new version of MS Word, Microsoft includes some impressive features that you need and love to have. Let us see what Microsoft has included in its most recent version i.e. in MS Word 2013, which will help you to work easily.

Cloud Integration – The complete support of MS Word 2013 with cloud allows you to keep your entire content accessible everywhere.
Keyboard, Mouse, Touch, and Pen – This feature enhances the support of MS Word with tablets, Smartphones, and all latest electronic gadgets, and hence lets you be productive all the times.
Windows 8 – With the compatibility to Windows 8, Word 2013 has become smarter in its working.

How to Compact Microsoft Outlook PST Files After Archiving

May 28, 2013February 8, 2013 by Guest Blogger

Microsoft Outlook is an email client that stores entire Exchange Outlook mailbox data of a user on his/her local hard drive in a Personal Storage Table or PST file. Since the number of Outlook mailbox items increase with time, the size of Outlook PST file also increases. As we all know, large PST file is the root of various problems including deteriorating Outlook performance, PST corruption, and Outlook crash, thus it must be avoided.

What New Windows 8 Features Pose Potential Internet Security Risks?

May 28, 2013February 4, 2013 by Guest Blogger

Windows 8 was developed and released to meet two goals. The first is to make the Windows operating system a legitimate contender on mobile devices. The second is to create a more consistent user interface and experience across all Windows devices. There have been a variety of improvements which will enhance the overall level of security provided to users; however there are still serious internet security risks which must be taken into consideration.

Methods to Get Back the Original Performance of Microsoft Outlook 2007

September 29, 2014January 14, 2013 by Guest Blogger

Microsoft Outlook 2007 uses UNICODE format for storing the data in PST or Personal Storage Table file. The Outlook 2007 PST file theoretically does not have any size limitation, but practically it has limited its size to 20GB. This means; if PST file of Outlook 2007 crosses this limit, then chances of PST file corruption are high.

However, you start encountering performance issue with your Outlook 2007, as its PST file crosses 20GB size. You may find momentary stoppage in various Outlook operations like opening an email, deleting a mail, or moving mails from one Outlook mailbox folder to different folder.

Outlook PST files having size greater than 2GB and less than 4GB are generally dependent upon hardware. Therefore, if you have fast hard drive and big RAM, then you may not face Outlook performance issues between this size slabs.

PST files larger than 4GB start behaving abruptly frequently despite any hardware; and if your PST file is larger than 10GB, then you will encounter more frequent pauses while performing various typical Outlook activities.

The best way to avoid such pauses and get back the performance of Outlook 2007 is splitting the large PST file into smaller PSTs. You can use any of the below mentioned methods to split your PST file.

Secure the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Using Packts New Book and eBook

February 26, 2016January 7, 2013 by Paul Salmon

Packt is pleased to announce the publication of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Security Cookbook, a new book that helps to secure SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and Reporting Services (SSRS). Readers will learn to master techniques for data and code encryption, user authentication and authorization, denial-of-service attacks and SQL Injection.