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So it’s time to talk about some of the features in Windows 7 after the bits were given out at the PDC last week. I haven’t installed Windows 7 to try it out myself as I wasn’t over there in Los Angeles, so I had a look at Matt’s blog for some screenshots...
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I installed Bluehoo when I was working from home the other day. A nice easy install onto my mobile device and I want to meet new friends! What bluehoo does is uses your bluetooth stack to scan around and see whether there’s anyone else using Bluehoo...
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Well I’ve finally had a chance to properly listen to the podcast I did with Mary Jo the other day when she came on Campus. I also forgot to link to Mark’s fantastic write up too when I blogged about this yesterday. One thing that struck me ...
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I was really pleased to get a mail from Mary Jo the other day telling me she’s going to be on my side of the pond. Mary Jo was one of my panellists at the Women in Technology lunch I held in Orlando last year. Well she’s agreed to come over...
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I saw this brilliant article over on the dumb little man blog about eliminating waste – that’s time wasting stuff by the way and had to share it. Number 10 really strikes a chord: Say NO! The most lasting way to eliminate waste is to learn to say no....
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Jeff loves the new Windows ads – but then you’d expect him to – as he’s a Microsoftee, but actually there’s been a lot of comments internally from techies who actually hate the adverts. I’ve been saying how much I like them – not because I’m internal...
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I’m really looking forward to TechEd Australia – Jeff has really been building the momentum and has got everyone involved in the Ultimate Expert – speakers too. You can be the Ultimate Expert too – try and beat all of the Microsoftees there – that...
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I’ve been talking to my team this wee, reviewing their work for last year. planning for next year and talking about the commitments and objectives that they need to achieve as evangelists. One of the primary things we do is to support and encourage...
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- and turn out the lights when you leave are just 2 of the 10 ways to try to curb global warming and improve your carbon footprint. I found these tips on Microsoft’s Environment site (which links to the MSN green site too). It’s good that we’re...
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I’ve been playing Server Quest and I’m totally rubbish at it, my scores are far too dismal to admit in print (some of these geeks obviously have too much time) but playing it has reminded me to tell you about the TechNet plus subscription offer...
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Well my WIT session is finished and I'm no longer required at TechEd Developers this week, so I'm going to spend a couple of days in Florida chilling out until it's time to come back to TechEd IT pro's. I'm going to the Kennedy Space...
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I noticed that the PDC 2008 site has now gone live today. I think that this year is going to be a really exciting year with Ray Ozzie doing the keynote (and probably talking about cloud services like Mesh , Software plus services (think Office Live ,...
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Wow! I downloaded the Worldwide Telescope today and I'm totally transfixed. no wonder the press has been raving about it so much. The mission of the WWT is twofold: To aggregate scientific data from major telescopes, observatories and institutions...
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I was interested to see this article the other day about a new technology we've announced to help people who can't see too well and would prefer things to be read out using text to speech. This add in allows you to translate Open XML documents...
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We're deep in planning for our next financial year which starts on July 1st and we've sent out some surveys to find out how you feel about what we've been doing so far this year. I'd like to see a response to the survey so we can gauge whether my ideas...
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Do you know any outstanding individuals and should they be recognised? The second phase of ChampionIT , a programme that celebrates the day-to-day efforts of IT Professionals has launched again for this quarter. and our judging panel have chosen their...
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Now this is a really interesting concept - and one that's going to make exchanging social networking contact data a lot more easy. John Richards has blogged about an agreement that we've put in place with Facebook , Bebo , Hi5 , Tagged and LinkedIn so...
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I've been a OneNote enthusiast since I discovered it in January, and I was even more delighted to meet OneNote guru Mike Tholfsen at my Management Excellence session in February. Well Mike has been kind enough to share lots of OneNote resources with me...
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Steve, who reads my blog mailed me with a problem he's got with Outlook Voice Access. It made me giggle... We’re delighted with our in house Outlook Voice Access, but it’s caused great amounts of laughter in the office all at my expense! Sometimes we...
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We had a great question texted in to us for the panel discussion on Thursday - one that we couldn't answer. Tracy from IBM talked about how their women's group had gone out to South Africa and built two houses for the local community. She emphasised how...
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I've been having a look at the Microsoft Action pack which seems to be rather good value for partners, especially the fact you get 4 updates per year and loads of sales and marketing materials. You get loads of software included in the £199 price too...
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I've been in Paris since yesterday afternoon for a meeting of the Management Excellence team across EMEA. This is a team of managers that have volunteered to "inspire, advise and assist the Management Excellence Community and HR to create a culture of...
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Jeffrey tells us why he invented PowerShell. The last 5 seconds of the movie made me smile. Nice guy... Technorati Tags: Jeffrey Snover , PowerShell Share this post: Read More...
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Well several months after I last blogged about this, I still get the same questions about how to change your password in MSN Massenger (or messenger, or mesenger if you prefer). Here's how you do it... Go to Account help central : then select the change...
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I found this on the Security tips and tricks blog and loved the article that Scott Charney did for Computerworld about how he tries to make things safe in the online world for his 78 year old mum. I chat to my mum about online security regularly. "I'm...
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