Given my extensive coverage of Gmail updates (here’s an in-depth recap), I thought it only fair to extend the same top-notch reporting to Yahoo! Mail. Today, I received an email from Yahoo! congratulating me for being selected to participate in a pilot program called Power Mailer. I subscribe to Yahoo’s free email service and I have no idea what I did to deserve this honor.

It appears the only perks that come with my new status among the Yahoo emailers elite club are that I can now send mail up to 20mb in size and I get to jump in front of the novice Yahoo! emailers (who really need it) in line for customer support. What I could use from Yahoo! is free access to their pop3 mail server. But oh well…. You can read more about this exciting program by clicking here.

I haven’t been impressed by a Microsoft product for a very long time. If pressed on this issue, I’d have to go way back to the release of Windows XP for the last true awe Microsoft gave me. I refuse to install Vista, but I am somewhat impressed by Microsoft Office Professional 2007.

There is a Microsoft product everyone can benefit from. It’s called Windows Home Server and it’s packed full of features you actually give a damn about. Just install Windows Home Server on a computer running on your home network, and run the set-up CD on all your PC’s, Windows mobile devices,and game consoles like Xbox 360. The software links all your machines together, and from one nifty command center enables file sharing, automated data back-ups, security features, and remote access. With this product, Microsoft does a good job of taking the critical data management and security functions of large business technology and down scaling it for home and small business use. Windows Home Server product also eliminates the need to install multiple networking applications. Take a look for yourself.