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You get a lot more than you pay for
Microsoft’s approach to stuff is to ship the basic product as part of a license and then provide you with lots of other add-ins, packs, resource kits and so on which are all free to use on top of what you just paid for e.g. Windows has the Live platform Read More...
Excel add ins for Analysis Services
Excel and analysis services are pretty open technologies so it’s very easier for anyone to grow their own stuff in for a richer experience, and even Microsoft provide things like the data mining add-ins which follow this principle. These add-ins are not Read More...
Date for your Diary – How to go from data to decisions
A key part of business intelligence is the collaboration between the business user and the BI IT professional and so Microsoft are running a one day seminar addressed to both of these audiences. The well renowned BI guru Rafal Lukawiecki is running this Read More...
12th Day of Christmas – Community Clips
In my final video of free stuff from Microsoft, Viral is showing my Community Clips a screencasting tool that we actually use to make most of our videos.  However the Community Clips site is also a great resource of videos for learning Office … Technorati Read More...
9th Day of Christmas – PPTplex
The remaining videos in my quest to show 12 cool free things that you can use form Microsoft have been made by good friend Viral .  Viral is the Office and Sharepoint evangelist so it is entirely appropriate that he shows you PPTPlex, a PowerPoint Read More...
64 bit odbc connectivity to SQL Server
Working for Microsoft is strangely like working for the government, yu are essentially trying to please everyone, but there are significant minorities on any given issue who aren’t that satisfied. Let me explain with a real world example.. The lack of Read More...
Are we spending too much time with Excel?
Despite my love of SQL Server and my respect for Oracle, and MySQL the worlds number one database is excel.  I know that many purists and DBA’s will shudder at me grouping a spreadsheet with a database, but look at this form the perspective of number Read More...
Performance Point Server - Counting the Cost
I am ploughing through my inbox now I am not on the road anymore, and I have picked up quite a lot of flak around the costs of Performance Point.  I have passed specific queries on to the licensing guys, but the sort of thing I was getting both on-line Read More...
Education Education Education
In order to keep the spiraling costs of the education system to a minimum, parents seem to end up with more and more of the bill, and students also get hammered with massive loans. So how about a cheap copy of MS Office ultimate 2007 for £38.95 without Read More...
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