| February 2008
In this issue: ■ Sneak Peek Event
■ Microsoft Award
■ Office Hours
■ Time to Change OS?
■ Top 8 Computer Myths
■ Frequent Tax Mistakes
■ Wi-Fi Anywhere
■ Where in the World
■ Stay Fit While You Sit
■ Email Overload
■ Opportunities
| Top Eight Computer Myths Since most computer problems are resolved either by random or ritualistic action on the part of the user, or by following mysterious instructions from an allegedly knowledgeable support person, it’s hardly surprising that there are lots of pseudo-religious myths about PCs. Between them, these stories can waste a lot of your time and money. Worse yet, you could become one of the myths’ promulgators, and exacerbate the problem! This article is partly about the worst of these myths, but it’s also about how to spot misconceived ideas yourself. Continue to read the
8 myths 5 Frequent Tax and Bookkeeping Mistakes
By Joseph Anthony
Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Small Business Website
The U.S. tax code is so complicated that it’s no surprise many small businesses and individuals make mistakes in their bookkeeping and filing. But don’t count on any mercy from the IRS. Take it from a tax professional. Here are five of the more common mistakes, and what you need to do to avoid them. Continue WiFi Connection Anywhere The promise of a free wireless Internet connection enticed Lynn Fox into booking a room at the Holiday Inn Express in Madison, Wis. Who could blame her? Fox, a community relations professional from Iowa City, Iowa, relished the thought of no more wires. No more clunky dial-up connections. No more phone bills. When she checked in, she thought she was home free. Continue
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This exciting preview event is designed for business professionals and IT decision makers like you. Be one of the first to see how the latest Microsoft technology can provide you with a secure, reliable, and easy-to-manage platform – to give you a competitive edge. See first-hand how these advanced solutions deliver high-quality, rich user experiences by: - Making your technology platforms more secure.
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| eMazzanti Technologies Recipient of Microsoft’s Small Business Award for Marketing Excellence
Hoboken, NJ January 28, 2007eMazzanti Technologies, Technology Strategies for Business Growth, is the recipient of Microsoft’s Small Business Regional Award for Marketing Excellence. The award recognizes Microsoft Business Partners who continually seek to improve the customer experience through educational and market impact events. Selected from an elite group of Microsoft Business Partners, eMazzanti Technologies has shown its skill, knowledge and commitment to help educate its customers and improve the greater community through outreach programs.The quality of eMazzanti’s events generates a response rate and patronage seldom found within the industry. eMazzanti clearly defines what a technology partnership a computer consultancy can foster with its customers The Microsoft Partner Program Regional Awards recognize those Microsoft partner companies that have developed and distributed exceptional solutions based on Microsoft technology throughout the year. Awards were given in five different categories to companies selected from over 375 partners in the New York Metropolitan Area. At a ceremony hosted at the Microsoft center in New York City, eMazzanti was recognized as the winner of its category. See the Press Release |
| Office Hours: How Bill Gates Uses Office
Written by William (Bill) H. Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation.
Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Office. If you visit my office, you will probably notice right away that I have three large flat screen displays that sit together and are synchronized so they work like a single very wide display. The large display area enables me to work very efficiently. I keep my Outlook 2007 Inbox open on the screen to the left so I can see new messages as they come in. I usually have the message or document that I’m currently reading or writing in the center screen. The screen on the right is where I have room to open up a browser or look at a document that someone has sent me in e-mail.I spend the majority of my time communicating with colleagues, customers, and partners. As a result, Outlook is the application that I use the most. I receive about 100 e-mail messages per day from Microsoft employees, and many more from customers and partners.It’s very important that I hear what people think about our products and our company. Yet I need to balance that against the very real risk of information overload from all the e-mail that I receive. The advances we made in Outlook 2007 for filtering, rules, and search folders have made it much easier to manage my e-mail than before, especially because so much happens automatically once I’ve set everything up. Read more |
| | How To Determine Time To Change OSHere are some things for you to consider before taking the OS upgrade plunge.After much hype, Microsoft’s newest operating system release in almost five years, Vista, became available to business users in November 2006. Vista has flashy features and updated capabilities that can only run on hardware that has enough power and memory to support them, however for that reason, there are a whole new set of system requirements for this new OS that are more demanding than previous Windows operating systems such as XP and 2000. Before you upgrade, consider the following: Continue |
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| | Stay Fit While You SitDo you sit at your desk for long periods of the day? Have you ever experienced back, neck or shoulder pain after a long day at the office? Perhaps you put on a few pounds after taking a desk job. Research has shown that people who work desk jobs are likely to lose muscle tone, experience back pain, gain weight and suffer from increased stress. That’s because inactivity, poor posture and bad eating habits tend to plague those who sit at a desk throughout the day. One study by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) showed that those whose jobs require them to sit at least six hours a day are twice as likely to be overweight as those who sit for less than 45 minutes a day at work. So what can you do to stay fit but keep your desk job? Check out these tips. Treatment for eMail Overload
By Craig Davis,SLPowers Corporate workers are now spending as much as 40% of their time dealing with email. I personally have come to expect between 100 and 150 emails every business day. From the important, such as a new customer requesting information to the mundane, such as an endless chain of email discussions between colleagues. It’s come to the point where the issue can no longer be ignored. I’ve assembled a list of tips that you can use to help keep the problem at bay, at least until software catches up and solves the issue for us. Continue</span rel=”nofollow”> | | | Opportunities at
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