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Every couple of months as I write my blog in Windows Live Writer, it pops up and says “would you like to try the latest beta?”, and throwing caution to the wind I say OK. It just quietly keeps getting better, so when I joined Microsoft last July you could
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I wanted to get Express installed on my machine and so I downloaded the RC0 (of Express with Advanced Services) and ran it. BTW there is is this Akamai download manager behind all of the RC0 downloads which you have to allow to run to get the download
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I got one of my neighbour’s sons onto our one week work experience program this week, so I thought I would drop in to watch the presentations they had to do. Everyone was genuinely impressed with the quality of the work, the imagination and professionalism
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When I am not playing with SQL Server, I play PC games, such as Gears of War and Flight Simulator X, although this happens on my home gaming rig and not the office laptop. My personal PC runs 64 bit Vista, but have I shot my PC in the foot by running
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Occasionally in the dark corners of e-bay, and amazon you'll find this odd mp3 player for sale called a Zune, Originally it looked a bit like a brick as it came with a lot of in built armour, but in its latest guise it looks more like any other well known
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The next round of road shows are going to focus on Windows Server 2008 and Vista sp1 so no SQL Server 2008 this time. But no peace for the wicked like, many dba's, when not doing my day job I have to get my head around all of the other stuff that
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The geeks in Microsoft have taken over down town Seattle for the week as we all get our six monthly fix of the latest stuff that's coming out. This is one of the ways that Microsoft has to keep it's technical people happy and it certainly works
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If you want to protect your data then the Bit Locker technology in Vista is a good way to go, and I would also recommend Vista backup as it's so simple to use . Of course if you're in New Zealand and someone has broken into your office and swiped your
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When not in business intelligence mode, I am a PC gamer and being an old PC Gamer I never got the console thing. Like many of you I was hesitant about upgrading to Vista as my black box has been continually modded over the last 3 years to keep up with
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