As much as I like Gmail’s web interface, sometimes I would prefer to format the email in a desktop client.

Every once in a while Outlook’s data files used to store all your emails, contacts and calendar entries gets corrupted. If you have an Exchange server, Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail which backs up all your email then you can very easily restore Outlook to default settings. Here is how you can reset Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010 to factory default settings.

Now that Windows7 is officially out and available to everyone, most people would want to take advantage of the shiny new operating sysem from Microsoft.

Windows Vista computers have several enhancements over previous versions of the Windows operating system. However after a few months of use Vista might take a long time to boot up.

Windows Vista has a built in feature not many people are aware of. Users can resize a hard disk partition on the fly with a Shrink feature.

Windows 7 the latest operating system from Microsoft is slowly coming in to the limelight. The reviews have been good overall.

Windows is supposed to automatically recognize new disks that you connect to a computer. But often that is not the case because of the disk formatting.

Microsoft FrontPage had reined for several years as the primary website authoring tool in Microsoft’s portfolio. But FrontPage has been replaced with Expression Web which is geared towards the general population and Sharepoint Designer which is aimed at professional corporate web-developers. On a recent project I had the misfortune of choosing between the 2 products.

Experience With Expression Web
I started off with Expression Web. Downloading the beta was quick and easy but .NET version 3.5 framework took much longer to install than the program itself even requiring a reboot. After I …

Server virtualization has been isolated from the mainstream IT and Datacenter vendors for quite a while. In fact Vmware’s enormous success can be attributed to the lack of competition from any of the top tier software vendors. Only after Vmware captured majority of the market share that Citrix and Microsoft started scrambling to get in on the virtualization game. Now Microsoft has joined in the revelry with its Hyper-V virtualization product.

Microsoft’s Virtualization Edge
All is not lost for Microsoft. They are taking advantage of the Windows Server market share and capitalizing …

Microsoft has always dominated the PC market. I will go so far as to say without Microsoft the PC would not have evolved to today’s standards. But why does it fall behind Google and Yahoo in web-market dominance. A quick look at a Compete.com graph shows Big G and Y! are playing in their own private league while Microsoft watches from down below.

Microsoft has seen many ups and downs and has survived every hurdle thrown at it. It has managed to fight long legal battles against US anti-trust agencies and …