About a week ago, a few of us from work drove over to Le Mans and I was reminded once again of the Europeans and in my humble opinion their better quality of driving. Last weekend however, while driving back to my parents, I had to tackle the M25 and...

One of the 'cooler' pieces of technology to come out of Microsoft Research and make its way into the Unified Communications group is something called Microsoft Roundtable, which I have spoken about before. It's quite difficult to explain what Microsoft...

Before starting my job as the UC Product Manager I used to work in SMSP (the partner side of the business) in the Partner Technical Specialist team. One of the things we discussed was the idea of having a Windows Live Messenger bot you could ask simple...

This week, I unplugged the telephone on my desk and put it on the other pile of stuff on my desk that I think I should keep but will probably never go back to. The reason for this unusual move is that my number has been moved over to OCS 2007. When you...

I am sure I shouldn't admit this, but I have spent a little bit of this Friday catching up on other developments within Microsoft, had a play with some internal tools and generally reminded myself of why Microsoft is such a cool company to work for. To...

One of the questions I get asked at events, almost without fail, is 'Are Microsoft creating a PBX replacement?', hopefully this post and the relating web site should give you the answer if you have not already heard it from me directly. If your PBX could...