Free Microsoft Small Business Guide to Security
Thanks to a tip from The Office Weblog, I’ll probably be spending part of my day reading this document (PDF) and seeing what sort of things I can pick up.
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Office Updates
Microsoft has released SP1 for the Office 2003 Suite, OneNote, Visio, etc. Guess I’ll be over at the Office Update site for a bit this morning. More later… Update: Installed SP1 for Office 2003 and OneNote. Everything seems to still be working. My OneNote notebook has a new tab called “Helpful Tips” that has, well…
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Busy, busy..
I’ll be over here most of today, leafing through the latest Microsoft updates, 7 total, 2 critical. Then I’m going to go over here and check out a spellchecker Firefox extension, thanks to a recommendation from Geek News Central. In between, I’ll be helping set up a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting, dealing with some…
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Week in review
It’s been a crazy week, as you all have read. Made none any less crazy by the fact that our Annual Meeting is coming up next week, which brings about it’s own flurry of activity that I haven’t even talked about on here. What do I take away from this week? The whole battle between…
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Open source in small business
If you’re a Linux zealot you probably don’t want to read this. Keep in mind that I would love for there to be a Linux desktop flavor that competes with Windows. In fact, I think in some ways they already do, but this is going to be about the one area where they just don’t…
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Anti-virus built in to XP SP2?
As Dana pointed out, this is an interesting article about Microsoft adding a built-in virus scanner to Windows XP SP2. I’m torn, obviously. On one hand, for all those home users who never seem to be able to use AV properly, maybe this isn’t such a bad thing. Although many still won’t remember to update…