Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

Can Apple Out-Innovate Microsoft?

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Apple is innovating like its old self once again. But can the company avoid repeating the mistakes that forced it to play catch-up in the ’90s?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/222141/page/1

Google updates Google Sync - Now sync your calendar and contacts wirelessly!

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Google has updated their Google Sync app to give iPhone and Windows Mobile users the ability to push-sync their Google Calendar and Contacts wirelessly, just like Microsoft’s Exchange OTA push feature.

Check out this article from Ars Technica for details.

Having problems with OWA and Vista?

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

You may have come across an issue with using Outlook Web Access (OWA) with Microsoft Vista running Internet Explorer.  When you go to compose a new message, the body of the message comes up as a broken link and you’re unable to type your message.

Microsoft has released a patch for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 that updates the ActiveX control to fix this error.

You can read more about it on Microsoft’s website: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911829

Outlook 2003 KB945432 Update and JPG images

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

* May 8th: FIX!!: Microsoft has announced a hotfix for the problem described in this post.  Information about how to aquire the hotfix can be found at  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951678/ . 

* April 23rd, Update: Microsoft support has announced that a fix for this will be released within the next 2-3 weeks. 

* Original Post:  Well, Microsoft has done it again.  With Office 2003 Update KB945432, Microsoft has basically blocked the ability to view JPG images created on an Apple OS system with a version of Adobe Photoshop.  You can view using 3rd Party viewers (i.e. InfranView), re-save the file, and everything works fine.  But, otherwise, the images are useless.

The only way to take care of this at the moment is to go into Add/Remove Programs, and under the Microsoft Office 2003 patch list, remove the update for KB945432 for Outlook.  No reboot is necessary.  Just remove, and reopen Outlook, and problem solved.

Will update once a solution is found.

Post from PC Review Regarding the issue
Post from Google Groups regarding the issue