Cameron Sturdevant

While Microsoft isn’t releasing information on the full range of Office 365 or Office 2013 editions, here is what is available in the customer preview: • Office 365 Home Premium Preview: Install Office on up to five PCs and get 20GB of online storage on SkyDrive so that you can save and share your documents […]

Microsoft has added a smart “autofill” feature to the customer preview edition of Exel 2013, which was released Monday, July 16. Excel 2013 is able to parse a table for like types of data and then autofill the values in the remaining columns. In the canned example provided with the preview version that I looked […]

Word 2012 Adds Alignment Word 2013 gains the ability to align objects like pictures (akin to later versions of Microsoft Visio or PowerPoint), giving documents a more professional appearance without taking a lot of time. This allows elements to appear in the document with a more professional appearance. Notice the green reference line that I’m […]

The Microsoft Office 2013 customer preview of the on-premises productivity suite and Office 365€”the cloud-based versions of the productivity suite€”focus on mobile devices and touch-based user interfaces. IT managers who are charged with equipping stationary, as well as mobile, workers with the these full-fledged email, document processing, presentation, spreadsheet and socially aware collaboration tools will […]

The latest editions to Google€™s hardware lineup include the new Samsung Chromebox Series 3 desktop and a refreshed Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook Ultrabook and are simple to use, consumer-oriented devices that depend on the cloud for the bulk of their application and storage capabilities. Both devices became available June 14 and run only Google€™s […]

The Latest Chromebook The new Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook is basically a netbook that is linked to a Google account. Limited Offline Mode Here you see that I’m able to access a Google Docs document while disconnected from the network. However, I can only view the document. Top View The Samsung Series 5 550 […]

Site Recovery Manager Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (SRM) pairs data center sites and provides replication and disaster recovery (DR) for VMware virtual infrastructure. vSphere Replication vSphere Replication (VR), shown in the lower right, is a new feature in SRM 5.0 and enables DR without requiring more expensive, hardware array-based replication. Configuring the Replication Process This […]

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0 throws the virtual infrastructure leader into the fray to provide disaster recovery capabilities for lower-value second-tier applications while making user interface changes that cause the complex tool to be somewhat easier to use. IT managers who already use Site Recovery Manager 4.x (SRM) will likely be impressed with the […]

Notification Center OS X Mountain Lion changes the way notifications from applications work (for example, when iTunes needs an update) so that they appear briefly and then, depending on the nature of the alert, it slides away or remains until dismissed. Messaging OS X Mountain Lion adds messaging to the Mac desktop operating system so […]

All MacBook Pro Now with a Retina display and almost 25 percent thinner than previous iterations, the new MacBook Pro lost some legacy support in order to engineer in a greater reliance on Thunderbolt ports. However, users don’t have to worry. Apple will sell you a dongle to convert those ports to the legacy hardware […]