Last year we said goodbye to Windows 7, but this year we say goodbye to something not only older, but something that served as a visual medium for businesses, artists, advertisers, video game developers, and has been used by just about anyone who has had access to the Internet between 1997 and today.

Monday, December 14 saw one of the widest outages of Google’s services this year, which affected YouTube and GMail, as well as their own internal systems.

According to Google, “The root cause was an issue in our automated quota management system which reduced capacity for Google’s central identity management system, causing it to return errors globally.

Direct iT has partnered with the MSCPA as a Gold Sponsor for their 2020 Tax Camp, which is taking place Dec. 9 to Dec. 11.

To learn more about the MSCPA and their line-up of conferences, please visit https://www.mscpaonline.org/

If you’ve worked in an office or have been in school at any point in the last three decades, chances are you’re quite familiar with Microsoft Excel, but if you’ve been around a longer, you likely know that it wasn’t nearly as popular as its competitors at first.

Today we are in a golden age of televideo conferencing, with Zoom and GoToMeeting the norm for remote meetings and webinars. From your desk, you can connect for a face-to-face meeting with anyone who has Internet access. While this is ever-improving, let’s take a look back at how businesses have worked remotely over time.