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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
Happy Birthday to Windows!

Windows 1.0 was released on 20th November 1985 hence it's twenty three years old today! There's a great write up on TheRegister which includes a link to the pcmuseum - it's a third party site which runs through a summary of the releases of Windows incuding screenshots - it's a step back...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-20-2008
GetSafeOnline: providing advice for consumers to help them stay safe on the Internet without blinding them with science

It's the fourth annual GetSafeOnline campaign week whereby the team will raise the profile of consumer internet safety through a revamped GetSafeOnline website (containing a wealth of commonsense "how to" information) and a range of media activity. It's a great cause as the campaign...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008
Configure Hyper-V Remote Management in seconds

It has been a little quiet on the blog front, but sometimes, at least in this case, I hope I've come up with something worth waiting for. Announcing "HVRemote"...., a tool to "automagically" configure Hyper-V Remote Management. (Amazing what can be done with a few days vacation...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-14-2008
How much data is CERN's Hadron Collider expected to generate?

I stumbled across this earlier in an edition of Computing - apparently the Hadron Collider "is expected to generate 40,000Gb of usable information per day" - assuming it operated at this rate for a year that would be over 14Tb of data! I wonder what their backup regime is?

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-07-2008
How to sort a list of names into alphabetical order

You might be surprised just how easy it is to sort lists of text into alphabetical order simply using Microsoft Office's Excel as you can see from the screenshot below - the sort function works just as happily with text as numerals:

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-07-2008
The VistaSquad are meeting again in London on the 19th - they have the General Manager of Visual Studio joining them

If you'd like to join the user group meeting then simply browse to the VistaSquad's website to sign up - it's free and will be a great opportunity for you to ask questions and learn from your peers. The following talks will take place during the user group meeting and there will be plenty...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-07-2008
What do you think of Microsoft Security and Management products?

What are the first things that come to mind for you when considering "System Centre", "Forefront" and specific Microsoft security and/or management products? What's good? what frustrates you? Please comment to share your thoughts.

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-06-2008
Windows 7 – some screen shots

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. And I like what I’ve seen. Especially...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
New Infrastructure Planning & Design guides issued

SOLUTION ACCELERATORS - Act faster . Go further . Infrastructure Planning & Design Release Announcement www.microsoft.com/IPD I repeatedly forget to mention these in my talks - and that's bad because these documents are excellent. For each topic you get a ppt and doc. Here's...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-31-2008

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