Tag Archives: Gmail

April 2012 articles published on WindowsITPro.com

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

Here’s the digest of articles published on my WindowsITPro.com blog in April 2012. FAST searching coming to Office 15 server applications (April 26) reports that the Office 15 wave of server applications (Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Lync 2013) will share a … Continue reading →

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Monday miscellany

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

Some random thoughts to fill in the vacuum of a boring Monday afternoon in January… First, why doesn’t the Nokia Lumia 800 running Windows Phone 7.5 display a status bar to show the current state of the battery, wireless connectivity, … Continue reading →

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Gmail shows Office 365 how to meet a 99.9%+ SLA

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

The really bad thing about the Office 365 outages in August and September is that the accumulated 330 minutes of downtime means that Microsoft cannot meet its published Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.9%. To their credit, Microsoft has already … Continue reading →

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Offline Gmail returns but doesn’t make Microsoft quiver (too much)

Posted on September 1, 2011 by

Yesterday Google relaunched offline access for Gmail, Calendar, and Docs. The new HTML5-based capability replaces the previous functionality built using Google Gears. Gmail is the first application to get an upgrade in the form of a Chrome application that can … Continue reading →

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G-Mailman video from Microsoft

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

In my post about the positioning and marketing wars between Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps, I discussed the fact that the battle between Microsoft and Google is likely to be a tad dirty at times. I therefore wasn’t surprised … Continue reading →

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Filers verus Pilers

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

Many moons ago, good filing habits were deemed to be an important part of office life. Documents had to be correctly placed in the right folder and carefully deposited in a file cabinet to allow the office to operate properly. … Continue reading →

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Whoops! Where’s my Inbox?

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

One of the weaknesses inherent in cloud-based services was displayed once again on February 28 when Gmail service was lost to some 500,000 users, or as Google expressed it, 0.29% of the total user base (I love the way that … Continue reading →

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On email conversations

Posted on October 6, 2010 by

The email gods have spoken and Google has listened: Gmail now allows you to turn off conversation mode and display items in folders in the same way that clients have done since the year dot. The announcement was made on … Continue reading →

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