Yesterday’s news regarding Microsoft’s offer to buy out Yahoo shouldn’t surprise anyone. LiveSearch is almost irrelevant as a search engine, and MSN has seen declining traffic in the latter half of 2007. Yahoo, if not the most used search engine, is still the number one stop on the internet, edging out Google in overall traffic, [...]

I’m stunned by the breaking story my boss has sent me that Microsoft have just bid $44.6bn for Yahoo! The price is 62% above Yahoo’s closing share price on Thursday, so it’s going to be a hard one for Yahoo’s shareholders to reject.
If the deal goes ahead it will be the biggest internet tech [...]

My shameless begging for a copy of Windows Home Server has finally paid off and I’m in the process of installing it as I write this post.  I knew that somebody would eventually send me a copy!
Over the last couple of days I’ve discovered some problems with my NASLite installation that has made me decide [...]

I have been using Outlook 2007 since beta 2. Feature wise it’s richest than its predecessors, and offers some new functionality such as the To-Do Bar, Instant Search, enhanced junk filtering and attachment previewing.
That said, Outlook 2007 can be sometimes annoyingly sluggish, specially when starting up. Today, I would like to provide you with a [...]

I’m not a PC gamer, but I do like to know how fast my computers are. A good test of how fast a PC is has always been the various PCMark tests, but unfortunately these haven’t worked with Windows Vista.
This will be fixed shortly with the launch of PCMark Vantage, a new set of [...]