Some of you may have seen this but kind of cool to share again anyway! Here Enjoy!

Great news for the communities focusing on Financial Services and looking to bring the value of Compute Cluster Server to the mainstream volume FS customers. Check out the press release here. The remit of the community can be read here, the headline being...

Well certainly on a grand scale anyway! If you are planning on heading over to Denver for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference then check out the session called: 'Your next big bet: Enterprise Search', Tim from Content and Code , and a few colleagues...

Great webcast here on Scaling SOA in Financial Services with Grid Computing for .NET: Event Overview Enterprise architects in financial services are looking to service-oriented architectures (SOA) to address many real-world problems – brittle systems...

We have been working with these guys to include MOSS migration tools in addition to their existing offerings. Vamosa have a free version, and a charged for version which is a one-off cost rather than an annual license. www.vamosa.com Here is an excerpt...

It's all just about doing things easier isn't it? In many of my external meetings I meet partners and customers who say things like the following: I want to focus on our business more I want it to just work Why does it not recognise this widget? We have...

Seen some press reports about Microsoft potentially buying Yahoo.. BBC Yahoo shares up on Microsoft talk Associated Press: http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=AP&Date=20070504&ID=6846679&Symbol=YHOO Reuters article: http...

Just a couple of quick shots of the Windows Compute Cluster user group held at Microsoft Reading last Friday: We had some amazing attendance for the 1st Microsoft User group meeting for Windows HPC Worldwide - :-) The slides will be made available online...

Saw this at the end of a long day and thought 'you know what, that driver must have been having a really bad day!': "Saturday night I shut shop and go home and everything is fine," he told the BBC news website. "Sunday morning when I get here, this aircraft...

Nice article here showing some of the cool stuff that Excel Services will deliver in the FS environment. Like the following slide: And the business benefit output is as follows: Out with the old and in with the new!

I have just seen this article by the Chair of the UK User Group, Simon Cox and Microsoft consultant Marc Holmes on HPC CCS architectures: http://www.marcmywords.org/swap/aj11-hpc.pdf The best snippets for me were: High Productivity is not just speed of...

It's an interesting report that looks at the BI and Search and how they will play together in the next year or so. The resume is: Dont expect one to takeover from the other BI and Search will work in tandem Recommendations: Demand integration from BI...

So whilst we run the first user group for CCS at Microsoft, look what happens to the MSFT share price! Made me smile!

Saw this great online article sent through by my friend Sol - great few words on MOSS 07 and what it will be and does (see - SharePoint 2007 6 pillars of MOSS ) I particularly liked the following sentence: So the competition is in no way thin on the ground...

Saw this site the other night and loved the list here: Top 10 Ajax Applications and the even more interesting is the top 23 Mashups Well worth a browse if you get a spare moment! Enjoy!

Another great article from Brian Sentance and the gang over at Xenomorph, check it out here: " Cluster Wars - Scaling-Up Derivatives " Fantastic to see the new ways people are using the power of Compute Cluster Server for. Enjoy!

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (MOSSFS) 180-day Evaluation Kit is now available, this includes: · SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard Edition (32-bit and 64-bit) · Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard (32-bit) · SQL Server 2005...

So for those of you who were in Minneapolis last year you will know how amazing the Microsoft Partner Conference can be, this year we are doing it all again in Denver! Instead of banging on about how good it was I thought I would give you an insight on...

So was out and about today and happened to have 5 minutes spare when I went past the new TechGuys shop in Woodley near Reading. Really friendly people, really cool set of services that would definitely be useful for some of my neighbours and my parents...

So of all the developments in Microsoft around Search this year, this is one of the coolest innovations we have seen to date. Supporting our channel partners with some great training and more, check out what you can get: Deep Technical Training Free elearning...

Great new site for showing your customers what MOSS 07 does and can help you to achieve in your business: Search for documents and business plans: Searching for customer contacts in 3rd party systems like SAP or Siebel: Love the UI and the business minded...

Fantastic opportunity from my colleague Claire for ISV's looking for technical skills abroad, read on for more: Helping ISV’s access Microsoft Skills Overseas Following on from successful events in October and January to highlight the opportunity around...

So I guess I thought I would check what Live Maps did and happily here's the result: http://maps.live.com/?q=london%20to%20san%20francisco&mkt=en-GB&FORM=BDRE Phew!

This made me smile, doubtless there are similar 2.0 errors in Live Maps: http://tinyurl.com/2yqwz5 Step 37 is a cracker: Lol :-)

Hat tip to bink.nu for signposting the ZDNET article on Microsoft's success in the Compute Cluster space, the full article is here but have sliced out a few of the gems I like here: "We think that's fertile ground that nobody else has hoed yet," said...