A number of people have asked me where they can download a copy of the presentations from the Exchange Unplugged Tour 2007 that happened at the end of last year.  Now that I am 'back online',  I think this would be a great opportunity to use...

Back in May 2007,  I did a blog post about all the new devices that were coming out.  That blog post has served me quite well as I have referred to it a number of times when people have asked me what devices are available. Well I am glad to...

Yes yes .... I know ... there has been a little bit of a drought on my blog of late.  I have been busy over the last few months or so with preparation for the second half of the Microsoft financial year,  a ski holiday,  taking my motorbike...

The 9th and final Exchange Unplugged Tour 2007 event is now over.  The wireless mics are silent,  the kit is packed away,  demos shut down,  projectors cooling and tour T-shirts in the wash.  Its been a huge tour in such a short...

Today saw are penultimate Exchange Unplugged Tour 2007 event in Gaydon at the Heritage Motor Museum with POST CTI .  Today went particularly well with a really good crowd and an equally impressive venue and we have now packed all our bags for the...

Luica at Inferno PR sent this over to me today,  great find Luica :-) I would like to think that Microsoft is bringing presence to the desktop,  inserting it into telephony devices as well as applications like Outlook and Sharepoint.  We...

One of the things I really like about the Exchange Unplugged Tour is how the team have put together a raft of real life demos rather than just relying on slideware.  Its also worth mentioning that the demos are not smoke and mirrors .... well .....

It's 18:21 and I am here sitting in my hotel room relaxing after the first day of Exchange Unplugged Tour 2007.  Its going to take a few days to get the feedback but I took a peek at the feedback forms as thought I would share them with you "Simply...

Last week saw the culmination of months of work by a lot of people at Microsoft resulting in the Office Communications Server Launch event. So far the feedback from the event has been really good with the attendees commenting we had a good mix of business...

"Bye Bye ... my laptop hard drive ... try to do a check disk but the end was nigh" It's one of those things that happens to everyone at some point and at the end of last week it happened to me .... my hard disk 'gave up the ghost' More often...

A few weeks ago,  I put together a post about my experiences of using the Tanjay at home and a few weeks later I had an email from Terry Gold. Terry has the most interesting deployment I have heard of so far,  making a call from high up in the...

You might be asking yourself right now,  why on earth is Mark talking about a monitor when he should be talking about Unified Communications.  If this is the conversation going on in your head then let me refer you to the 'Unified Communications...

Over the past few months, I have been working with a number of people around the business on the Office Communications Server 2007 launch in the UK, it's suddenly occurred to me that I should really mention something about it here :-) Organising a launch...

Sounds scary doesn't it, what would it be like to be constantly sharing your presence whether you were 'Online', 'Away', 'Busy' or perhaps 'In a meeting'? There is the school of thought that says this would perhaps be a little invasive, with people effectively...

It almost 6pm on a Friday and I am still in the office ... how sad is that !? Before I disappear off, I wanted to let you know about 'The Ultimate Steal' which I think is a great offer and frankly shouldn't be missed. If you are a university student yourself...

Being the UC product manager I am lucky enough to be firnished with a few more devices than others in MS, this means I can sometimes take some of them home where normally they would be expected to stay in the office. One such device is the Tanjay which...

I have said before that the technologies we are putting on the desktops of the employees has been in their homes for a fair few years. I read today that Cisco are now looking to do the opposite and take their TelePresence business video conferencing system...

Back by popular demand, the Unified Communications team are doing a tour of the UK in 2007 visiting a number of locations up and down the country and we want you to come along ! The tour starts off at Microsoft Campus @ Thames Valley Park in Reading,...

Darren aka Office Rocker was talking to me today about a post he has just made called 'Excel users can all pivot' . I will leave you to read it yourself but one of the interesting points he highlighted was 'it's not new, it's just new to them as the ribbon...

I have been wanting to do a few postings this week so I thought I might save on the 0's and 1's and put it all into one post :-) The Electrics Wands experience of Microsoft Roundtable - Ewan Dalton sat in a room last week with a few of us in order to...

Going through my RSS feeds I came across a really interesting post made by Katie which highlighted the number of hours teenagers spend online and more importantly their reason for being online. It turns out that a piece of research MTV and Microsoft have...

There are a number of blogs I follow (via RSS of course) and the new 'blogger on the block' is Maren Bennette who has years of experience in the telecoms industry and has certainly seen and written about many technologies that have come and gone. The...

One of the common questions I get asked is 'what do you have on your desk then' when I start talking about devices. With this in mind, I thought I might have a try at doing a review styled post. I will warn you now I am certainly quite some way behind...

Darren Strange and I had a quick chat this morning to come up with list of why people may wish to use Communicator 2007 over Windows Live Messenger. Pop over to the blog of the Office Rocker for the full list and let us know if you think of anymore we...

Last week was a busy one for me, meeting partners & customers, working on the upcoming OCS launch and generally doing my normal day to day job. I did however have the pleasure of doing something a little different also last week. Last Tuesday, we...