Oliver Rist - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Oliver Rist

Article | 28/06/2012 In Pictures: Windows Server 2012 highlights

A quick visual tour of the revamped Server Manager and other great new features in Windows Server 2012

Article | 19/10/2007 Microsoft's marriage of easy communications

We've been watching the romance develop between OCS (Office Communications Server 2007) and Exchange Server 2007 since OCS became available in beta ea...

Article | 31/08/2007 Does Mac OS X suck?

Paul Venezia bamboozled me into buying a MacBook Pro back in January, and I've been on it semi-daily ever since. And yeah, overall, I've been pretty h...

Article | 24/08/2007 Does Vista suck?

Does Vista suck? The word on the Web is that it sucks badly enough that we should all don iSheep caps and adopt Macs or Penguins. I usually don't get ...

Article | 22/08/2007 Does Vista suck?

Does Vista suck? The word on the Web is that it sucks badly enough that we should all don iSheep caps and adopt Macs or Penguins. I usually don't get ...

Article | 16/08/2007 Exchange 2007 SP1 packed with goodies

This is what happens when your friends have kids. The kids get sick; your friend gets sick. He comes over to help with rebuilding your deck. You get s...

Article | 29/06/2007 Five technologies more pressing than the iPhone

I'll never get it. Of any industry, save perhaps the stock market, you'd think the tech market would have become inured to hype. Yet every souped-up c...

Article | 17/05/2007 Trimming the Longhorn, threatening the Penguin

Some weeks, the dog is man's best and fuzziest friend; others he's chasing you around the yard and snapping at your heinie -- I'm having a real "Tom a...

Article | 11/05/2007 The road to Longhorn: A Hobbit's tale

It must be a little like trudging your furry feet all the way from the Shire to Mordor, only to see that big damn gate manned by a thousand orcs who l...

Article | 8/05/2007 More stupider user tricks: IT horror stories

When it comes to royally derailing IT, nothing trumps the stupidity of those whom IT is meant to serve. And though the verdict's still out as to wheth...

Article | 3/05/2007 Kill IM -- or at least control it

Give them an expense account, and you know part of that money goes toward buying dinner for their significant others. Get them a company car, and ther...

Article | 26/04/2007 Hosted services trump in-house deployments

It's 8 a.m. last Friday. Yours geekily is tilting forward to pluck the milk from the fridge, the better to coat my breakfast withal, and TING! My lowe...

Article | 19/04/2007 No warm fuzzies for iSCSI?

Lately, it seems like it's all about disk space. They're no longer file servers but document repositories with multiple versions of single documents s...

Article | 18/04/2007 Microsoft VOIP app confuses

Impenetrable questions I've been pondering: The difference between acute dyslexia and the way Linux programmers name their software. How Apple Store s...

Article | 11/04/2007 WEP security is mere clicks away, in Windows

Ah, the joys of aging: seeing friends who haven't laid eyes on you in a few months or even years and hearing, "Geez, you've certainly got a lot of gra...