Since the announcement of Microsoft's new options for their productivity software releases for this year, there has been a lot to consider. The journalists and bloggers have been picking over the licensing agreements since the release and have found some changes that...
Update 2/11/2013: A third update should be out in mid-February to patch yet another critical vulnerability. If this bit of news hasn't been on your radar already, we'd like to bring an important security flaw to your attention. Several major security flaws...
Microsoft announced the release of Office 2013 at the end of January. The new productivity suite is the first built to use on Windows 8. Also announced was the release of Office 365 for the home user. Office 365 has been around for a while, but only available to...
How time flies. SpireTech was officially founded on Feb 25, 1993. Since we turn 20 next month, we are working on something fitting to celebrate (stay tuned for details)! Many clients that started using SpireTech for IT support in the beginning are still with us today....
A useful feature for collaboration in Office documents is the concept of markups. This feature allows you to track changes made to a document and even offers the ability to mark comments that can be made invisible when looking at the "final" product. When trading a...
The release of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8, does not appear to be going very well. Recent studies show that its sluggish adoption by PC users is making it less popular than Vista at the same point in time after its release. Arguably, there are quite a...
One of the most useful methods of communication is with images. I use screenshots a lot to either convey or understand a problem based on what a user or I are seeing. The Snipping Tool is an excellent time saving tool by Microsoft. It's a simple program that allows...
December is usually a busy time of the year at SpireTech. Clients begin looking at year-end profit projections (if any, in the current economy) and start figuring out what portion they will need to spend or pay taxes on. Usually, this is a good time of...
SpireTech has been providing Backup solutions with Dell Appassure Replay for over a year now with great success. A server or workstation crash is one of the worst things that can happen - the best thing assurance you can have is a complete image backup of your...
Microsoft is getting ready to finally pull the plug Windows XP permanently. XP came out eleven years ago on October 25th, 2001. After years of success, on April 8th, 2014, support for the operating system will cease. It has been a longer road than it was...