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Buying software online at the Microsoft Store

Did you know you could buy software directly from the Microsoft store ? The store is available in 7 different countries at the moment and has lots of different software on offer – not just games, but Windows, Office and Developer tools like Expression Blend and even Visual studio. Much more convenient...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-04-2008
When Ads go bad…

Sometimes automatic Ad serving onto web pages gets it wrong. Terribly wrong. Thanks to Pete for pointing this out on Mashable .

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-03-2008
Is Apple going off?

Yes - according to The Simpsons who lampooned it for 6 minutes. Unsurprisingly the YouTube video isn’t available any more. See Thomas’ post over at Mashable for information. I’ll just have to wait until it’s on over here – and read the comments about it over on Digg. ...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-02-2008
Office Communicator R2 for your mobile phone

Just noticed this over on Johanns blog who got it from the Unified communications team blog and it looks really really nice. I love the single number reach and the call routing features. I transfer my desk phone number to my mobile, use simultaneous ring and have one voicemail message. My...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-01-2008
Green IT and adding up the numbers

I did the keynote for the virtualization unplugged tour recently, and I tried to draw several themes together in it. Virtualization is good for making IT more dynamic (and what that means and why it is good thing) and Virtualization is good for saving money, space and carbon emissions. But I’ve been...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-01-2008
Amplify08 - social media done right…

Amplified08 was the most interesting social media conference I’ve attended in ages. Heck it was the most interesting damn conference I’ve attended! So what was so amazing about it? It was put together in just 6 weeks and advertised entirely on Twitter. I started to notice Twitter hash tags for #Amp08...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-28-2008
Amplifying your message with social media

I’m escaping out of the office to go to Amplified 08 in London today, partly because I’m really interested in social media and the topics that will be covered, but mainly because this whole event is a classic example of how well social media, and social networking works at bringing the correct...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-27-2008
Removing worms and trojans from your PC

In case you didn’t notice the news the other day , the last security update patch we did removed malicious software from over 1 million PC’s this week. How was it done? The Malicious Software removal tool . This is what it removes . So if you spend time on any of your friends machines...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-26-2008
Safe on-line part 2 (in praise of John Lewis)

I’ve talked about brand values and somewhere along the line I sure I said that I choose to shop at Waitrose instead of Tesco or Sainsbury’s. Since Waitrose is part of the John Lewis partnership I have had one of their credit cards for a while (my local Waitrose was one of the first where you could scan...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-25-2008
Mary Jo Foley: Just like her blog?

The quick answer is no. I had the opportunity to interview Mary Jo last month in the UK when she talked about her book. I recorded the session and I was really pleased with the results. So after John’s team edited the rough recording to get the repeats out of the session, I asked the...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-24-2008

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