Bill Gates is my inspiration in technology and I love Jerry Seinfeld shows , so what more better than seeing both of them together in a hilarious clip. It doesn't matter it was a commercial from Microsoft - did it? [Watch the low-bandwidth version here ] Watch the above clip which is the first of...

If you don't have Microsoft Office Outlook in your machine, then how do you search for people in your organization (assuming they are listed in your organization's Active Directory)?. With Windows XP you can use the Address Book Applet to do it. In Windows Vista there is no stand-alone program...

Few weeks back I had a strange problem, my Vista installation kept saying it is going to expire in 11 days. If you see the above image of the Control Panel-Systems says Windows is Activated . So I was puzzled, how can something that is activated can expire. Strangely the same error kept coming in few...

Following Microsoft's retiring of Windows XP on 30th June, there has been lot of talk on the Internet on how Windows XP is better Windows Vista. I love Windows Vista and I have been using it from Beta days. I will never even dream of going back to XP. Why?. The UAC prompts are certainly annoying...

The other day I wanted to password protect a word document before emailing it for privacy. I came across 3 different features in Word that are related to security and it is confusing at first. It took me sometime and few web search to figure them out. Though the below features can be accessed from the...

One of the compelling reasons I tell customers and friends for upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista is the extremely easy to use yet powerful backup feature. All it takes is three clicks to backup your entire computer to a removable USB storage or DVDs. You can backup a partition or folders to...

I have come across Developers and System Engineers who have trouble with networking time and again. The principle reason I have observed is a lack of thorough understanding of the underlying TCP/IP layer. Most engineers assume that if they know what is an IP Address, Subnet and DHCP they know networking...

I was running Vista Business in my Sony Vaio Laptop for almost a year and I wanted a change for change sake. Going back to Windows XP was unimaginable and felt old. I needed something new. So about a month or two back, I got interested in trying Windows Server 2008 (WS2008), just few weeks after it got...

Though it has been hotly debated for last several months, I have kept away from writing on the Office Open XML (OOXML) proposed by Microsoft and currently a ECMA standard. With the ISO voting due today I thought let me write my views before the results. Basically what OOXML means is a standardized file...

This is a simple tip for MS Excel 2007. When using Outlook 2007/Word 2007 and working on a Table we get the "Design" menu which is very handy to make our tables look beautiful. When working with MS Excel 2007 I couldn't find this feature (Design Menu for Table) till yesterday. It suddenly...