30 10, 2018

Microsoft Outlook: Destined for the Dumpster

I am writing this post about a program that is destined for the dumpster: Outlook. Just like the titans of the past, Outlook too will soon be done for. Here in this article I go over 10 reasons why Outlook is done for, and why I believe Outlook is the forgotten child of the Microsoft Office Suite. outlook old   First, some history. I, like many IT helpdesk support agents, have grew up with Outlook. For years, Outlook was really the only sure-fire way to get your email from the late 90’s until the widespread adoption of web-based email clients. The first version of Outlook I can remember servicing at the time was O [...]

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1 07, 2017

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ransomware: What Ransomware is, How it Works & Ways to Stop it.

  Happy July everyone! Wow! Year is definitely flying by. I’ve been asked by many my overall thoughts / plan of action against ransomware, and here it is: Your official (User-friendly!) guide to understanding and preventing ransomware. You know, a couple of years ago the state of the PC security industry met a remarkable peak: Things were going well security wise. Edge firewalls were getting decent, client PCs finally became stable software / support wise, and operating systems were finally getting remarkably easy to configure / deploy. Windows 7 was the heartbeat of small business, and, for a little bit, the infections of activeX / browser toolbars / fake antivirus seemed to have disappeared. The biggest threat on our list was all those fake search engines / browser manipulat [...]

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8 05, 2017

Dude, You’re Getting A Chromebook! Why Windows S Will Accelerate Chromebook Sales

The year of the disposable OS is here. With last week’s announcement of the Surface laptop brings to the table Windows S. For those who don’t know Windows S, it’s a stripped down version of Windows - 3rd party app wise. Apps can only be delivered via the Windows Store, which is a good and a bad thing. For starters, this prevents end users from finally downloading toolbars, useless software, and of course, malware. For your K-8 student, or your AARP-death customer, this OS seems to be the fit us in IT management have long been craving: An OS that someone besides Microsoft cannot possibly mess up. (Don’t worry – The company that first brought you an OS that required you to hit start before shutting down will soon sc [...]

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13 02, 2017

You, (Windows) ME, And The Future Have a Lot In Common

The time was June of 2000.

Your Chevy Silverado got a new face lift. Your AOL logins got a little quicker, and, your desktop took a change. The internet was here, the future was clear, and with Windows 98 behind us, we knew exactly how the world was going to work – for the world was a friendly place and all would work out in the future, right? Wrong. Sandwiched somewhere between the rise of McDonalds and the explosive end of the dot com bubble lies the product of what happens when your bitcoin portfolio explodes too quickly and you have no exit strategy: Windows ME. Where were you in the summer of 2000? If you were me, you were stuck in a house all day, smashing away at a keyboard. No, I wasn’t stuck in some miserable desk job that will drive me to become a divorce stat [...]

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