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Wet String and Sellotape
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Calling all Search and HPC ISVs....more $$$ on Microsoft platform!
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Mike P_1
Well I have to say it is great to be back!....well kind of, have to say I will miss the pool and evening Rioja! One of my colleagues James sent this to me whilst i was away...some really interesting articles around how Microsoft Platform ISVs make...
Holiday Warning...
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Hi All, Just a quick FYI that the blog will not be so diligently written up over the next week as I am off on holiday. I will of course be thinking of a whole host of stories to post when I get back.. :-) Enjoy!
Offtopic - Printer software bigger than Office 2007 - help...!?
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Okay, so one of my partners asked me this the other day and I have absolutely no idea - how come the latest printer software for my snazzy (though cheapest in the range) printer has software that once you download all the bits to make it run properly...
Offtopic: Brilliant video on Zune over on On10...bought mine...well 3 actually :-)
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Right so today I took a little plunge and bought my Zune and 2 for some friends of mine....surfing around I found this great video showing all the details on the Zune - great overview of all the features from the product team in Redmond! http://www...
Offtopic: What small change in a car, would deliver a 3.5% difference in top speed? (Hint it's a Lamborghini...)
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Well I know it is offtopic but that small detail in question is merely putting the roof up on a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder - 190 mph roof down and 197mph with the roof up gives a 3.5% or 7mph increase in top speed....wow! Small changes big impact...
HPC Technical Training - full in 24 hours...more to come!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Just a quick post to say that the HPC technical training on the 1st and 2nd November was filled in 24 hours - and so we wait listed people for an as yet unscheduled second session - and that is now full too...! We are doing our best to find a venue...
Scoble gives credit to Live on Search Performance..!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Well Scoble hasnt been positive on all things Search from Microsoft, looks that has changed for the time being. Damn, I saw some people talking about how much better Microsoft’s Live Search was and I just tried a few searches and, indeed, it’s a lot...
Reshuffle and Rebrand around Microsoft Search - Fantastic News....here's why...!!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
So there has been a little bit of a reshuffle in the Windows group in Corp and the search teams are now sitting under the Windows team and the 'Live' branding has been removed to sit solely with the Online Services Group (OSG). So all things Search that...
Microsoft technology perspective on Enterprise Search...great concise document!!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Been mooching around the new livesearch site on ms.com and come across this document introducing the different Microsoft technologies that allow businesses to harness the information they have and put it to good use. Really good concise article, you can...
Scripting for Compute Cluster Server on TechNet..
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
So the chaps in Redmond have come up with some great resources yet again to help out the field and partners with CCS, check this out: Use scripting in your system engineering work? Interested in high-performance computing with Microsoft Windows Compute...
Microsoft cluster gets into the Top 500!!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
The Top500 supercomputing list was released at the 2006 International Supercomputer Conference in Dresden Germany. This included a phenomenal 4.1 TFlops achieved by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Illinois using Windows Compute...
ISV Profile: HPC ISVs spring into life - check out the progress...
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Hi All, So I thought it worth spending a few moments highlighting some of the great work happening in the ISV community around HPC - check out the following: ESI Group announces its 64-bit Open VTOS on Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003...
Quickstart for Search: Free trip to Redmond, free POC of your business idea...!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Just come out of a days business review with my colleagues from Redmond and they highlighted a really fantastic offer for Search partners: If you highlight your solution on the Microsoft Quickstart for Search page ( www.quickstartmicrosoftsearch...
Protecting Privacy - could Search be the last bastion in protecting identity....or the tool used against us all by the evil doers...??
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Hi All, So as I flick through my copy of the Sunday Times, slalom through my news feeds or shred the last of my junk mail from last week I cannot help notice the raft of stories cited by the press from the hp news around their board room shenanigans...
Humour: Run a search for 'Search' and locate your nearest competitor - Google and MS :-)
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
We have seen this for a while now but have been keeping stum for obvious reasons - story is if you type 'search' in google you get directed to the Microsoft Live Search site. CNET took this story over to Google & got their official commemts which...
Training agenda confirmed for CCS training - 1st and 2nd November - register now!!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Hi All, This is the agenda now confirmed, for the training session on the 1st and 2nd November - huge thanks to Giovanni Marchetti of the Developer and Platform Evangelist team for making it happen: Session Description ...
Windows HPC Community Links and Dev Forum!!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
So one of the best links I have found for technical and 'how-to' content for HPC is the Windows HPC Community site - great info and solid community to get involved in - you can see it all here: www.WindowsHPC.net Probably not best, for those of...
IBM and Microsoft joining forces...!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
So yesterday I had the distinct pleassure of spending 15 hours with the IBM Deep Computing team at one of their UK Bootcamps.....now I know some of you may be thinking that it is a weird combination to have MS and IBM talking to their partners together...
HPC Blog transitioning - change your feeders now!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Hi All, I have decided to write all the HPC content under one blog which will be my main site - here you will get content which will be Search and HPC aligned but every post will be tagged so you can easily get the content you desire..So please change...
Early headsup - UK Training for CCS - free...!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Yes, you heard it right - we are going to run a bootcamp for CCS on the 1st and 2nd November. This will involve the following: Commercial Overview of MS CCS Strategy Understanding of the Opportunity for UK Partners Technical Workshop - including...
New Search training on Quickstart for Search!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Hi All - rather a quick post tonight following the Enid Blyton edition from earlier on in the week, fingers are raw and the keyboard slightly battered! I wanted to draw your attention to some new Search training up on the Jumpstart site. It's level...
The Google Effect...and Doris...we all need one!!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
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Right so when you sit back and think of how business has been fundamentally changed I thought I would look at how human interaction has been immensely changed over the last few years. Lets take a simple scenario of looking to buy a holiday: 1. In the...