E-mail a simple cure for problems with data swapping
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Since Microsoft, Allen’s wheels always turning
Bill Gates did not found Microsoft Corp. by himself in 1975. His co-founder and best high school buddy, Paul Allen, left the company in 1983 with roughly 35 percent of...
PowerToy plays well in building a CD database
Q. I have 1,300 music CDs, a powerful computer with Windows XP and an external storage device that can store 250 gigs of memory. My CDs are set up in...
Windows CD holds solution to fax program puzzle
Q. You helped me find an easy way to back up e-mail files in a recent answer to another reader. Now I need help with my remaining problem: viewing faxes....
Google Desktop Search a promising find
Your humble, music-loving correspondent has been busier than the proverbial one-footed fellow at the fanny-kicking festival these past few days. Things started getting crazy just hours after Microsoft Corp. formally...
Microsoft keeps tradition going
Works Suite 2005 $99, from Microsoft Upgrade Windows 98SE and up www.microsoft.com/works Buck for buck the giant package of programs Microsoft calls its Works Suite remains the best software bargain...
Microsoft takes virus protection to highest level
Q. I recently purchased tickets from Delta Air Lines over the Internet. When the airline transmitted the e-tickets, I received the cover letter, but the attachments could not be viewed...
Secrets of spyware
Q. I received a warning sign from a Microsoft Windows Explorer message that I might have infected files. So I followed the direction to download Spyware Stormer, scanned my disk,...
Magnifier tool a simple way to enlarge letters
Q. My Mother has macular degeneration and I like to show her e-mails from family to read. I use Microsoft Outlook as my e-mail program, and I can't figure out...
Virtual PC 7 links best of both worlds
Today, friends and neighbors, a review of Microsoft's brand new Virtual PC 7 for Apple's Macintosh. It lets owners of the new iMac G5s run a full-blown version of Microsoft...