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I love reading real books and I love radio 4, but I don’t do newspapers or television, this is isn’t baby boomer bias, I am big into social media or you wouldn’t be reading this. If you saw windows on the BBC last week the journalist couldn’t wait
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Windows 7 is released today, but I feel a bit detached from the buzz in the social cloud about this, having played with for it nearly a year. However a couple of things happened recently that made me remember what life was like before windows 7.
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Microsoft’s new consumer orientated anti-virus program Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) has now been released. It’s free so so is it any good? I am going to say empathically yes, because essentially it’s the anti-virus engine from Forefront
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As I’ve said before I’m a bit unsure about whether IT Pros have the time or inclination to watch technical videos. With our shortened attention spans and demands on our time I am very sure that watching an hour long or even half hour video is going
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I am part of a small team preparing for the launch of Windows 7, its big brother Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 on 6th October at Wembley stadium. I volunteered to be the producer as I am not presenting, and this essentially means that
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A simple top tip I got form James O’Neill to get a bit more oomph out of your laptop is to ram in a an SD Card for ready boost when you’re not loading up your photographs. This feature came in with Vista and is still there in Windows 7, and is a
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A lot of teenagers are on work experience at the moment, and as I don’t have any of my own children I got to be cool uncle for a week and took my nephew Harry to spend a week inside Microsoft. We run a full week course of lectures and practical
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I haven’t had many problems myself when installing SQL Server 2008 on either Windows 7 or Windows server 2008 r2 but there are a few things to watch out for which I have shamelessly lifted from KB955725 : You should install SQL Server 2008 sp1 as this
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Not everyone needs a flat out uber PC and I have just got my mum to buy an atom powered desktop from Ace (aspire Revo).. It’s just a big bigger than my router and it very quiet. More importantly it’s all mum needs for a bit of surfing type
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Our first effort at running a TechNet type road show as a virtual event worked pretty well but this platform did have a few niggles which I hope didn’t ruin your day too much. This was mainly around the moderated chat which we couldn’t get into
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I see a lot of tweets, and questions on forums about SQL Server Express from developers, particularly around installing it on client versions of windows, so I though I’ll give it a go and see if there is nay truth to the rumours. Rather than try it on
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The latest rumours around Windows 7 can be found on this Reuters article citing a public release in October and I’ll leave you to judge the voracity of that. However for those of you that haven’t tried it then it might be just as important to know
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Normally at this time of the year the evangelists would be wandering the UK with the TechNet road shows. However this year TechNet has gone virtual as it’s become very apparent that you are finding it even more difficult to justify a day out of
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I live my little snipping tool to capture bits of screen to share tips and stuff on this blog and in my decks, but since I moved to in Windows 7 it’s gone aaarrghh! Annoyingly all my mates (both of them) have got it on their machines so where did it go?
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Every 6 months Microsoft publishes a freely available Security Intelligence Report (SIR) , looking at what’s happening to threaten the security of our personal and corporate computing. Mostly it‘s written in English and if you can’t find the time to read
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