» The battle lines are being drawn between Google and Microsoft, starting with the applications domain (including email) and also including the OS domain. This battle will make the clash of the titans look like a thumb wrestle. So, Should You Migrate from Exchange Server to Google Apps?
Well, if you are a VSMB (Very SMB), then Google Apps is an alternative to consider, especially if cost is your main determining factor. You will be leaving a lot of features on the table, but you will be up and running in no time. As you scale, and those features you left on the table become more important, the Microsoft side of things will be more inviting, especially with Microsoft moving their apps to the cloud.
» New MAAWG Consumer Survey: Half of Global Email Users Willingly Click on Spam, just in case you thought the battle against spam and email-borne malware was getting easier.
» One of many definitions of spam available. Frankly, definitions are great, but can someone just get rid of those annoying emails I sometimes get in my inbox? Spam = Email that I don’t want to see in my inbox. A spam performance testing company I know of uses the following definition: if the receiver says it’s spam, then it is, otherwise it isn’t. You certainly get into some gray areas that way. For example, is it spam if I get an unsolicited email for deals on easter eggs and such just when I was thinking about buying some, and then act on it?
» Photocopier hard drives contain copies of the documents you have processed. Just when you thought you had mastered this whole security thing by protecting your email and your network, you realize that critical information can leak its way out of your business through the most banal channels.
» Goodbye IE6. I will be just as happy as anyone when this version does finally bite the dust. Come on now, is it really worth holding out? Of course not, take the plunge. Oh, I see, it is because you are running a version of Windows that does not support IE7 or IE8. Time to upgrade to at least XP SP2, you can do it!
» Google Buzz – depending on your perspective this is either a revolutionary new way of communicating and sharing content or an invasive annoying poorly though-out me-too social media aggregator (there is no middle ground with Google!). Hear it from the horse’s mouth and draw your own conclusions. Methinks this has the potential to be the former, but needs some quick fixes to convince users it is not the latter. I did enjoy the line where Mr Horowitz says that auto-follow was ‘misunderstood’. Bradley, we will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you are saying that Google misunderstood, and not the user.
» Reports of emails death seem to have been greatly exaggerated, as reported by CIO.com. We blogged the same topic a few months back. Email still has a long way to go, and will certainly benefit from many improvements in security, media inclusion and productivity that are being introduced by many players. Dead? Not on your life!
» Fake DNSBL uncover by Spamhaus: nszones.com. Stay away, and definitely do not pay these guys to be delisted.
» The terms used to describe various internet and email borne threats are converging on a single one: malware. Read: It’s all just malware now. Recently, at the famous Spam Conference in Boston, the researchers were even using a new acronym for S.P.A.M (Spam, Phishing, Abuse, Malware). I still find that malware is a term used by industry cognoscenti and not the general public, but the trend is certainly changing.
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