Articles in the “microsoft” category
Posted 5 years ago, mid-April
I’m at my neighbor’s house helping her fix her recently-busted Dell Dimension running Vista Business. My neighbor is a sweet woman, who is particularly computer savvy for her near-senior age. While I’m busy trying to figure out how Vista knows I’m connected to the Internet when it’s not actually receiving a single data packet from [...]
Posted 5 years ago, mid-January
I was having a pretty good Wednesday. The normal cooler winter weather had rolled into Charleston with a large high pressure system affecting much of the east coast, and I had just picked up a cup of coffee. It was then I received a chat from the fabulous Jackson Latka with simply a URL to [...]
Posted 6 years ago, mid-November
I’m scrambling to tie off loose ends before heading to a land far, far away early tomorrow morning, and while skimming over some headlines at lunch I saw this article at CNN Money on Microsoft’s new Zune. The damn thing looks like it’s got some promise! Who would’ve thought? Despite some early excitement on my [...]
Posted 6 years ago, at the end of July
The main difference between PPT and PPS is how PowerPoint treats the files when they are initially opened. In my day-to-day work I see on average one hundred million PowerPoint presentations. Okay, maybe not that many, but a lot. After all it is the Navy. And as with everything government-related, if it is not in [...]