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How cloud computing and Azure relates to your church website

Nov 6th, 2008
by MeanDean.
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Last week, while attending the MS PDC 2008, Ray Ozzie got all jumbo-tron’d at me about Azure and cloud computing. Here’s what it means to you and your church computing operations – now that I’ve had a bit more than a week to catch up on work and think it all through.
First, I suspect some [...]

Google Chrome – browser, web operating system, or web desktop?

Sep 2nd, 2008
by MeanDean.
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Looks like Google Chrome was launched a bit earlier than desired yesterday. The official Google Blog following-up “iterate often” with a link to their online comic book explaining their new browser works. And while some may only see “Yet Another Browser” – those of us looking under the hood are beginning to ask ourselves, it this really just a browser – or is this actually Google creating a web desktop and/or web OS that will finally put the nail in the Microsoft Office coffin?

Dumping Outlook for gMail – how and why

Aug 1st, 2008
by MeanDean.
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Ever contemplate saying bye-bye to Outlook forever? How about your church volunteers and staff – are they missing important messages because they can’t afford, nor figure out how to synchronize, the latest version on their home machines? Is the portability and price of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions like gMail sound almost too goo to be true?