If we want to call that “Hall’s Law of When Betas Aren’t Such a Bad Thing,” we probably ought to come up with a corollary law just for Microsoft of late: “When beta testing involves buying software ...

Belle Wong is a freelance writer specializing in small business, personal finance, banking, and tech/SAAS. She spends her spare moments testing out the latest productivity apps and plotting her latest ...

We’re all pretty used to running networked services in our homes or small businesses: Mail servers, file servers, Web servers and the like are common, easily configured and generally easy to run. One ...