Join Mark Russinovich and a panel of industry experts for a LIVE virtual roundtable to explore your top of mind performance issues, common misconfigurations, and tips on how to fix them. From boot times and applets to disk performance and battery life...

You can now download IE8 Beta 2 now To get a feel for the new IE8 experience, check out the videos here , download the product, and try it out. Here are 5 great new things: · Accelerators - Highlight an address, click the blue button and hover over “Map...

Q) How do I downgrade? A) As an end user you have the right to downgrade as set out in your Software Licence Terms. Example: You’re buying a new computer system and it needs to run the same operating system as your existing 10 systems — Windows XP Professional...

Photosynth is ready to use! We announced the general availability on the 21 st August. Photosynth, a new technology from Microsoft Live Labs, transforms your digital photos of a location or object into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience. How Does...

I was pointed out to this neat little video that our very own Mr Windows Server UK (i.e. the product manager) did recently Gareth always has a knack of making things interesting and understandable Well worth a watch

SQL Server 2008 books coming soon The first Microsoft Press SQL Server book publishes in September. We’ve pulled together a list of the books publishing in the next couple of months so that you can choose the most appropriate book for your need. Download...

Imagine my surprise when I moved to a new house a year ago, only to find that our next door neighbour was an IT pro working for a well known bargain clothing store (rhymes with "Trimark") and recognised me on the TechNet newsletter! Well he is on an Exchange...

From the Exchange Team Blog : Today Microsoft announced some significant changes to its licensing and support policies for applications in hardware virtualization environments. There are two key parts of the announcement worth highlighting for Exchange...

Mark Parris has bitten the bullet and set this group up. I think there are going to be a lot of people that would benefit from sharing experiences around this. If you are one of these people then subscribe to the usergroup from www.adug.co.uk or email...

Great spot from Steve C about the Engineering Windows 7 blog that has newly appeared

SharePoint Development and Migration for the Enterprise Workshop – Customers Date: 21 st and 22 nd August 2008 Place: Microsoft Campus, TVP, Reading Register: Jo Foster, i-jofost@microsoft.com Time: 08:45 – 09:00 registration 09:00 – 05:30 workshop Day...

PC World wrote a great article on this and includes a link to the official case study. What stands out for me is that people are beginning to realise the power of what SharePoint can d0: Microsoft originally conceived SharePoint as a portal product on...

We often get feedback from customers that they feel unsure when it comes to purchasing licensing, where it be the type of license to buy, how many, from whom..... One way to be sure a partner has a high level of how-to-buy expertise is to ask for the...

21 August 2008, Liverpool: Microsoft Virtualisation and Management Technologies 2 September 2008, Reading : TechNet: the Microsoft Vision for Unified Communications 9 September 2008, Reading: Microsoft Virtualisation and Management Technologies 10 September...

Also from the Microsoft Environment blog.....Microsoft’s CES Rob Bernard, Verdiem’s CEO Kevin Klustner, and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative’s President Lorie Wigle announced the launch of Verdiem's Edison , a power management application offered...

Hot from the Microsoft Environment blog: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007 has launched a new Desired Configuration Management (DCM) pack that fully complies with ENERGY STAR configuration guidelines! The new pack, which is...

Today, MSDN and TechNet Subscriptions published SQL Server 2008 simultaneously with the SQL Server team’s RTM. These downloads are available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers worldwide: SQL Server 2008 Developer (x86, x64, ia64) MSDN Subscriber Downloads...

I would like to introduce you to a new member of our team: Manveel Deol Technical Audience Marketing Manager Additional Details Email: t-mdeol@microsoft.com Manny has joined our team for a year as an intern during his work experience year as part of his...

The "Kevin Bacon" theory suggests that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two people on Earth This is a theory which has been largely corroborated by a huge Microsoft study of electronic communication. This was all done be reviewing...

I couldn't resist sharing today's friday funny email:

I was just doing a bit of blog browsing and found this really great post from Brett who talks about the way we here in Reading have been using Office Communicator 2007 and the new Round Table devices Aesthetically, the main change is that we walk into...

After much feedback, the TechNet Plus download has been revamped. Here is an overview from Keith on the features and improvements in the new UI in this release: The “twitchy” fly-out menu with the strange mouse...