Chris A Watkins - Business

The New Computer Age and the Enterprise So, here’s the critical question – ‘Can I really save large amounts of cash swapping PCs and local networking for budget tablet computers and the cloud?’ Let’s face it reliable tablet devices can cost as little as £70 and printer/scanners can be had for as little as £40. That’s a low overhead and if you can get away with minimising expenditure to that level why doesn’t everyone jump on the bandwagon? In fact that does appear to be the trend,   - ‘ Windows-based PCs have fallen from a 95% market share a decade ago to 90% today, according to Morningstar. That's thanks to the rise of mobile devices and software from competitors like Apple ( AAPL , Tech30 ) and Google ( GOOGL , Tech30 ).’ - http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/21/technology/microsoft-earnings/index.html Computer experts and advisors will caution that any start-up business should factor in capacity for expansion, redundancy to cover equipment failure and a whole hos...

One Drive for Business synchronisation issues We had all hoped that the One Drive for Business synchronisation issues were dead and gone with the introduction of the new sync client. Alas No – There are still issues, and while these are not so serious as before, they still can cost your organisation hours in lost work time and IT support. The main problem seems to arise after a user changes their O365 password. If the user employs multiple devices the password change doesn’t always replicate properly. So, while the machine on which the password change was made may be okay, other devices report synchronisation problems and asks that credentials be entered in order for ODFB to work. Okay so far, but the enter credentials dialogue fails to work (see https://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/t/425024 ). I suspect that this is because the credential dialogue app does not have sufficient permission to make the changes. And the permission setting may have been reduced in MS securit...

The New Computer Age and the Small, Medium Sized Business So, here’s the critical question – ‘Can I really save large amounts of cash swapping PCs and local networking for budget tablet computers and the cloud?’ Let’s face it reliable tablet devices can cost as little as £70 and printer/scanners can be had for as little as £40. That’s a low overhead and if you can get away with minimising expenditure to that level why doesn’t everyone jump on the bandwagon? In fact that does appear to be the trend, - ‘Windows-based PCs have fallen from a 95% market share a decade ago to 90% today, according to Morningstar. That's thanks to the rise of mobile devices and software from competitors like Apple (AAPL, Tech30) and Google (GOOGL, Tech30).’ - http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/21/technology/microsoft-earnings/index.html Computer experts and advisors will caution that any start-up business should factor in capacity for expansion, redundancy to cover equipment failure and a whole h...