So here we have a great example of a real difficulty faced by local government councils today. One of the roles of the council is to deliver information to citizens in a manner that is cost efficient and helps people to stay aware of issues effecting...

So following on from the last post you can see here what the document library woudl start to look like with all the classified documents: In the next post I will show the impact that organising documents will have on the user experience of a website or...

So occasionally it's a pleasure in Microsoft to work with some cool ISVs who add value to our platform by adding features that we havent implemented, one of these partners is Smartlogic. I wanted to share some of the screenshots of their cool demos showing...

Some nice videos on CNET at the moment, check out this one from Ray Ozzie, the chap who is taking over from BillG as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft: http://news.com.com/1606-2-6134071.html?tag=st.rb Scenario based design...a nice resume! Enjoy...

One of my good friends Jon Poynton has highlighted not only this great website but his aptitude at using Digital Image Suite by taking a picture of Steve Clayton aka 'The Geek in Disguise' and delivering the following superb entertainment: http://www...

These round ups always serve as a good reminder of the year that has been :) Security implications of confidential information Removal of Pluto from the planets Interests in Consumer gadgets and how excited people get about them :) http://news.com.com...

I have received a few comments on the 'hows' behind the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 magic on crawling and indexing of content. Now contrary to popular belief the technology is not entirely based on voodoo but some rather clever technology...

Sometimes from time to time it is great to see customers really getting into the power of some of the technology we bring to market. Tom Baldwin based in LA writes a cool blog about the technology aspects affecting his life in the legal world and has...

Following hot on the news of the IBM story with Yahoo today (See earlier post) some more of you might like to read the product comparison with IBMs Omniview here: Product Comparison by 'Technology and Business' on Google, Microsoft, IBM and ISYS....check...

So some of you may have seen this news today about IBM and Yahoo teaming up around their desktop and enterprise search products..you can see some of the initial news here: CNET here: http://news.com.com/IBM+and+Yahoo+team+up+on+corporate+search/2100-1038_3...

My colleague James posted an interesting article on a set of comparisons that Techology and Business did between the: Google Mini ISYS Desktop Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 beta (:-)) IBMs Omnifind v8.3 Some interesting insights into the different...

Saw a friend using First Direct this morning and this is their Christmas message to their customers - nice :-) Seen any alternative banking humour?

Raised a smile :-)

So I have just received my invite to the new look Live Expo which has just gone Public Beta - great news 'cos now you can all have a look. First of all, what is it and what does it do: With Expo you can: Trade exclusively with those you trust, like your...

Hmmm think I have another gift to ask Santa for, check out this cool 80Gb upgrade for your Zune: http://www.ipodmods.com/shop/microsoft-zune-parts.html Nice work guys!

Okay so there I was leaving work and check out what I saw....300 XBOX classics all sat lonely on a pallette. So I did a little research and found out that these were all from the testing division and used for testing games and console additions during...

Quick post - we have just got news of the set of goodies in the Action Pack coming out on January 10th, this includes: • Windows Vista Business • Microsoft® Office Enterprise 2007 • Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 • Microsoft Office Outlook...

Just seen this on the BBC Technology site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6213012.stm Nothing quite like good cheer is there! Blimey...

So on the subject of Search and books - some of you may have seen the Windows Live Academic for searching Academic journals, hadnt seen this before personally but liked the impact, check it our for yourself here: http://academic.live.com/ Now if you are...

So I saw this in development a few months ago and am delighted to see that from tomorrow (Thursday 6th December 2006) you will be able to search non-copyright books from the comfort of your sofa. In resume we have taken works from the following: British...

So with the release of MOSS 07 to technet and MSDN, there is some cool collateral for developers and IT Pros. One of the simple articles I like is the new features in MOSS 07, here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/527763c3-90a5-4d3b...

No need to introduce the Machine Evaluation Workshop to many of you in the HPC space but for those that aren't you can read all about it here: http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/disco/mew17/mew17.html Microsoft are up there pitting our wits against the best of...

Okay so just a short post this one, wanted to highlight to you all the cool features in Virtual Earth that a colleague Vikas Arora highlighted to me. Imagine how these can add colour and stickiness to your website with the Virtual Earth SDK: I want to...

Surrounding this whole Search plan at Microsoft is a plan to link together a whole set of technologies to allow businesses to better communicate and engage with their customers. I have written before about the local Government initiatives that partners...

So a little while ago I told you all how you can add Live Search functionality to your internet websites, and then told you about how Register had done exactly that: 1. For Live Search Syndication : I blogged this about a month ago: Simple syndicated...