This tip may only apply to a few of our readers, but I thought I would pass this along because it is a great way to have either a SharePoint development platform or deploy a SharePoint environment in small/home installations. Typically, the way you roll out a SharePoint environment is via a Windows Server, as this is included with the product. While this is the...

Last week I wrote about Office Accounting Express 2008, Microsoft’s free offering for small business accounting, however if you want to give the industry leader in this category a try take a look at QuickBooks Simple Start Free Edition 2009. The name says it all here. This offering is designed to get you started (/hooked) using the QuickBooks product. This...

When you go to the homepage of the Business Software Alliance, you see this:When you click on that button, you see a system whereby you can “rat out” an employer using pirated software and do so anonymously. Now, a one million dollar payday would, of course, be limited to people who expose a really big case. But, a recent news release by BSA says...