Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past few years you will have heard at some point, someone cry, “This program ran perfectly in XP and now won’t work in Vista!”

To ensure that the same fiasco doesn’t happen again, Microsoft are including an “XP Mode” into their new operating system, Windows 7. The inclusion is a move to encourage users to switch to 7 without fear of incompatability issues.

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Last week Google performed a song and dance about IPv6, whilst the rest of the IT industry remains generally unfazed…

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For the last 10 years I’ve been working in the technology sector; I qualified as a systems engineer, I dabbled with software development, I tried my hand at sales and I ended up running operations for a successful internet services company but the thing that has fascinated me the most throughout my time in the industry is something we all know as ‘Project Management’. Now before you judge me let me assure you that I do know how utterly dreary that comes across, the term itself makes you want to yawn and ‘Project Manager’ doesn’t exactly inspire the imagination when it comes to choosing a career, but this is where I think we all get it wrong…

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Google admitted earlier this month that it’s Gmail service failed again, just weeks after the company suffered a huge system outage following a data centre cock up.

It confirmed that a “small subset of users” have been affected by the latest downtime, but didn’t provide a definitive number and could not confirm when the service would be back up and running.

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You might be thinking what is SharePoint? It is a company intranet technology, written and expandable using Microsoft .Net; in layman’s terms it is a place to store company information in the form of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, all standard document formats, providing simple ways to share information, manage version control, blogs, wiki’s and a whole lot more.

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Using SpiderGroup’s Hosted Exchange service comes with unexpected benefits. Read about them here…

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There is no way to guarantee complete security on a wireless network. However, there are precautions you can take to help minimize security risks when you use a wireless network.

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Ok so Microsoft let themselves down badly with the launch of Vista, but do you really think that they would allow such a fiasco to occur again? Paul Griffiths goes to find out…..

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I’m sure like me, having just got back from holiday you are inundated with things to do, both personal and work related (assuming that we even have that distinction these days!). Well along with the standard new year’s resolutions such as joining the gym you could also sit down and work out a productivity system that helps you get things done. (more…)