The nature of work has changed. Your team expect to work securely from anywhere, on any device, and they put a high premium on work that enriches and fulfills them. They need to be more connected, more 'plugged-in' to colleagues, partners, clients and suppliers, and...
The NSA have released a ‘Cybersecurity Information Sheet’ for home networks. We know that home networks can range from simple to complex. You might have smart TVs, smart home lighting, Google Home, Alexa, alarms, cameras – the list goes on. These devices can be less...
The stats are in, and they are alarming! Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks are up 81% in 2022! Small Medium Businesses often say to us that they don’t need to worry about cyber because they're not worth it for an attacker. Unfortunately, that’s incorrect. There...
Coming in March 2023 – Teams 2.0! Faster, more responsive and with less resource requirement. That means that if you are working on the road, your laptop battery will last longer!The new version is reported to use 50% less memory, and less CPU power. The preview...
Thanks to the demand for work-from-home, we’ve all become very used to using Microsoft Teams. We love the way it combines all our messaging, phone calls, conferencing into one, we love the way it works on all our devices and we’re adding smarts with various ‘bots into...
That Windows hourglass can get very annoying. Waiting on your PC gets very frustrating especially when you are busy. If it seems that your PC is slower today than when you got it, you are probably right. But there are a few things we can do. Here are 3 tips to speed...
Microsoft have been releasing patches for 30 years. It’s easy to become blasé about them. Yes, Microsoft can automatically apply updates to Windows and Office. But that does not mean that you can rely on it. Any system is only as good as how well it is monitored....
One of the great strengths of Microsoft and Office has been their continuity. Word, Excel, Outlook and so on have worked fairly seamlessly across all our old documents and new ones, and files on our PCs, servers and in the cloud. It’s even worked from our mobile...
ChatGPT seems to be the talk of summer. Whether people are using it to write marketing material, prepare articles or profiles, it seems to be amazing users all over the world, apparently including Microsoft who seem to be considering a major $10Bn investment in it.If...
Where do these names come from? The latest trend is referred to as Pig-Butchering. The name comes from the Chinese underworld (shāzhūpán). The term refers to fattening up a pig, taking a longer-term view. They develop their target slowly, looking to get maximum...