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  • Monday miscellany

    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, and so on? You can reveal the status bar, but…

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

    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 acknowledged that they failed to meet their SLA in August…

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

    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 be launched using a new tab within the Chrome browser…

  • G-Mailman video from Microsoft

    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 in the least to see Mary Jo Foley blog about…

  • Filers verus Pilers

    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. Everything was neatly arranged, easily found, and everyone was happy.…

  • Whoops! Where’s my Inbox?

    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 small percentages are used in an attempt to disguise the…

  • On email conversations

    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 September 29 and the ability to turn off conversation views…