OutlookPower Magazine http://www.outlookpower.com/ OutlookPower News Headlines http://www.outlookpower.com/ http://images.zatz.com/zatz/resources/pageimages/journallogos/outlookpowerRSSLogo.gif 40 144 Copyright © 2005, ZATZ Publishing, a unit of Component Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. info@ZATZ.com info@ZATZ.com Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:25:51 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ZATZ ZENPRESS 6.0a1 Microsoft Unleashes Five Service Packs for Its Enterprise Security Wares Maybe in response to the coming Black Hat conference, Microsoft has released service packs and beta versions of its security programs. Included are: beta 2 of "Geneva," SP3 of Forefront Security for SharePoint,SP2 of Forefront Security for Exchange Server, and trial versions of Antigen Spam Manager for Exchange and Antigen for SMTP Gateways.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045127.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045127.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Windows 7 May Get Family Pack Discount If your household includes multiple computers, you may be able to get Family Pack license for Windows 7 allowing a single copy of the OS to be installed on up to three machines.

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Read | Permalink]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045124.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045124.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Give an Old Desktop New Life His old Dell desktop cost $1700 new so, Brian Nadel, of Computerworld, has challenged himself to refurbish the machine, for about $400, and increase performance by 30%.

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]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045109.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045109.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Europe won't pay more for Windows 7. Really! After being accused of double-charging European customers for Windows 7, Microsoft defends its pricing while explaining the difference in the European version.

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Read | Permalink]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045112.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045112.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT IT wish list for SharePoint 2010: Keep it simple Microsoft is getting ready to push out SharePoint 2010. After their experiences with SharePoint 2007, IT departments are requesting Microsoft to make the new product easier to manage and maintain.

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]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045111.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045111.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Why is Microsoft Office So Hard to Kill? hile there might be better applications available, most companies refuse to consider moving away from MS Office.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045087.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045087.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Microsoft Pushes IE8 With Ads That Are Actually Funny Microsoft's advertising tends towards the opaque and heavy-handed, so when an ad is actually humorous... This article includes links to four of these IE8 ads.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045089.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045089.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 Based on a Community Technology Preview (CTP) copy of Microsoft Office 2010 this article discusses some of the changes made to improve Office. A link to a slide-show of the new features is included.

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]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045088.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045088.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT 5 Steps to Secure a New PC Fresh out of the box your new PC may not have any malware on it, but it's hardly ready to protect itself from the internet.

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]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045072.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045072.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Microsoft Plays Tennis Match with Apple on Windows 7 Pricing Microsoft "lowered" the price of Windows 7 in an attempt to undercut Apple's OS X. But Snow Leopard is expected to be available in September, will run on a PC, and is less expensive.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045070.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045070.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT New article: Can Outlook run when it's not running (and other mysteries)? David Gewirtz

Reader Cody Two Bears writes:

Hello, I am a IT professional and I was wondering if their was a way to get your Tasks and Reminders Alerts to pop up when Outlook is closed out.
The people having problems are using XP Pro Service Pack 2 and 3. Plus, some people get their pop ups when they get a new email and some don't. Is their a setting that needs to be in place for the new email alert to pop when you're not in Outlook?

Outlook runs as a user program on your computer. What that means is runs in the foreground, and when you quit the program, it (eventually) clears out of Window's memory and shuts down.

There are programs that run in the background. Some of these are tray applications that only seem to run in the background, but hide their user interface until selected. Others run as truly background tasks, operating as Windows services, accessible through the Services console.

But Outlook doesn't work like that. When it's open, it'll churn through reminders and incoming email, displaying alerts and reminders based on the various preferences you set. But when it's closed, it's completely unaware of what's happening on your system.

To learn more, tap here. ]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045064.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045064.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 e-mail editor white paper Going back in time on the HTML issue, this is the whitepaper explaining the benefits of Office Outlook 2007.

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]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045055.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045055.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT The Power of Word in Outlook The Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog provides the official response and reasoning behind the decision to continue using Word to render HTML citing the benefit of using "a familiar and powerful tool".

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]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045052.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045052.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Microsoft Rebuffs Twitter Protest Over Outlook Despite getting more than 20,000 complaint Tweets in less than 24 hours, Microsoft is defending its decision to use MS Word to display HTML in Outlook.

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]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045034.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045034.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! - Update Once again Microsoft is being accused by a "lesser known" firm of copying their product and rebranding it as a Microsoft product. This time Kayak claims Microsoft copied their search engine and named it Bing.

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Read | Permalink]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045014.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045014.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Outlook's Is Broken. Let's Fix It. (the website) If you'd like Microsoft to hear your complaint, you can tweet them from this site as you read what others have posted. Just make sure to include "fixoutlook.org" in your tweet.

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]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045012.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045012.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Microsoft, Outlook Is Broken, Says 6,000 Tweets (And Growing). Fix It. Microsoft Outlook has long had difficulty rendering HTML in emails and Outlook 2010 doesn't look to promise anything better. Some people Tweeted their displeasure. Then it started to snowball.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045013.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045013.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Free VMware Orchestrator could drive VM automation One of the new features of VMware vSphere 4 is the VMware vCenter Orchestrator. This workflow automation engine is used to help automate your virtualized environment.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045015.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045015.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT David's on-the-air schedule

  • WDUN 550AM with Martha Zoller, Monday, July 6 at 10:30am
  • CRN Digital Talk, Financial Talk Radio with Tim Connolly, June 26 at 10:05am ET
  • WFTL 850AM with Russ Morley, Fort Lauderdale/Miami at June 26 at 7:12am
  • KRLD, Dallas with Mark Watkins (broadcast time tbd)
  • ABC TV, Thursday, June 25 (broadcast time tbd)
  • NBC TV, Thursday, June 25 (broadcast time tbd)
  • FOX News with Rick Levanthal, Wednesday June 18 at 4:30pm ET
  • WDUN 550AM with Billy and Joel, Thursday, June 19 at 9:20am ET
  • News Talk 550 KTSA with Chris Duel, Thursday, June 19 at 1:07pm ET
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    ]]> http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045026.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00045026.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Microsoft goes green to win IE 8 and Bing users Apparently Microsoft is feeling unloved. To win back your business they're willing to bribe you, with promises of prize money and charitable gifts.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044987.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044987.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Caringo Unveils CloudFolder CloudFolder is a free application for Windows for storing files and folders to a CAStor cluster that can be downloaded, installed, and ready to use quickly.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044991.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044991.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Is Microsoft's "Morro" Malware in Disguise? Windows Security Essentials was released in beta today, to the first 75,000 to download it. Replacing Windows Defender, this free product seems to be swimming in mis-information.

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    ]]>     http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044988.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044988.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Windows 7, Bing and security: Mr Ballmer regrets This article includes a 40-minute video with blogger Mary-Jo Foley and Reg software editor Gavin Clarke discussing the confusing signals from Redmond.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044970.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044970.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Exploits of Unpatched Windows Bug Will Jump, Says Symantec Microsoft acknowledged the vulnerability a month ago but hasn't issued a patch yet, leaving machines running Win2000, WinXP, and Server 2003 at risk.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044971.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044971.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     OPINION: Pigs Fly! Microsoft Leads in Security For years Microsoft has gotten bad press for the security of its applications. Now... Roger Grimes, of InfoWorld, offers his opinion on what might have changed.

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    ]]>     http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044972.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044972.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Fujitsu to offer Windows 7 vouchers Fujitsu, and other vendors, will begin offering PC buyers the chance to buy an upgrade voucher soon. The voucher will allow you to claim a copy of Windows 7 when it ships.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044973.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044973.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     New article: Exploring the dark side of social networks http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044964.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044964.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Microsoft forbids changes to Windows 7 netbook wallpaper If your new netbook runs Windows 7 Starter Edition, you'll be stuck with the default wallpaper, color, and sound schemes. Even the OEMs are prohibited from making changes.

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    ]]>     http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044956.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044956.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     MS names ship date for free security suite June 23 has been named as launch date for Microsoft's new Security Essentials, the replacement for Windows OneCare. Like OneCare, Security Essentials is supposed to protect machines against malware, for free once you sign the "Windows Genuine Advantage" agreement.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044955.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044955.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Microsoft bribes Oz to ditch Firefox Microsoft has upped the ante - they're offering $10,000 in a treasure hunt that can't be run without Internet Explorer 8. Oh, yes, and you have to be an Australian resident.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044954.html http://www.outlookpower.com/newsitems/00044954.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT