I have been catching up on my blog reading and came across this post "Million dollar laptop coming from UK Luxury firm Luvaglio?" on the engadget site. The specification looks like the ultimate in bling, but no mention of it running the ideal operating...

Could you make history while blogging? Well you could if you take part in perhaps the worlds biggest blog called 'One Day in History' . For one day only ( 17th October 2006 ) you will be able to post your blog entry for that day. The idea being to capture...

All forty SharePoint Services 3.0 Appliaction templates can now be downloaded. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5807b5ef-57a1-47cb-8666-78c1363f127d&DisplayLang=en These are great to help show how SharePoint can be used...

In a recent article for 'Partner Perspectives' I promised to talk about why I had been blogless for so long. I have to be honest; I started out being a little sceptical about the whole notion of blogging. I had conversations with many people that blog...

I ask all Microsoft Partners this one question. "Are you running Windows Vista?". Why do I ask this question? I ask this question to better understand why our leading advisors to UK business on IT are not themselves gaining all the benefits from our latest...

The number one rule in Vegas 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas' will never be the same again. The irony of blogger's from around the world getting together to talk about life as a blogger and early impressions of all that is MIX07 was very interesting...

I am missing a few blog posts from the last couple of weeks, but on the plus side I have been in the thick of the action. I posted some time ago information about a tour we were about to undertake to meet partners across the UK to show Exchange, Vista...

I had the pleasure of presenting at a couple of events last week that covered Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 . One of the most common questions was from customers who had installed SharePoint to evaluate it, but were not sure if it was setup...

I've just read the post on Steve's blog about the whole Open XML debate and the issue about choice. I have always been a firm believer that having choice in our industry drives innovation in companies and keeps them honest and open to there customers...

I have had a technical focus for sometime on Microsoft Search technologies going back in time starting with Index Server, then onto Site Server and now working with the 3rd release of our SharePoint Search technologies. The basic principle of being...

I have started to receive feedback via comments on my blog and true to my word I am responding. In my previous post on 'Geek Gland Training' I posted information for training on Office 2007, Exchange 2007 and Windows Vista but I also tagged the post as...

Are you getting the most from your recent upgrade to the 2007 Microsoft Office System ? It's a good question to ask. Are you using this latest release in exactly the same way you have used previous version of Office? Would you like to change and get more...

I have had a few conversations recently about developers not looking at .NET Framework 3.0 as they believe it is a completely new version of the .NET Framework. Well that is not strictly true and perhaps the version of the framework has confused a few...

If you have yet to look at Microsoft Office 2007 then now is the time. My team and I have been busy up and down the country meeting partners of Microsoft and customers listening to what they like most about Office 2007 and let me tell you there is a lot...

I liked this phrase so much I had to share it. The saying 'Playing on a 5 ½ inch pitch' (that's 13.75cm for the more modern measurer) refers to the space between your ears where your brain is located. Now for those that know me you will know that sporting...

A new generation of Microsoft Certifications covering Technology, Professional and Architect roles are now published from the UK Learning site . The Technology Specialist certifications enable professionals to target specific technologies and to distinguish...

I've just been catching up with the 'Geek in Disguise' blog over at Clayton Central and I was interested to read the post on Hugh MacLeod wanting to be hired by Microsoft . The fact that the cartoon is generating so much interest and so many varied views...

First see the Jeff Raikes Business Intelligence keynote then get key information from the following resources. 1) Read the Press Release 2) Get the Data Sheet 3) Head over the SQL Futures site Data will never be the same again.... James Akrigg

It's great to see we continue to listen and improve our benefits to Microsoft Partners . I often hear from partners that business is busy and they are growing at great speed, but finding skilled resource is very challenging. Well this may help at peak...

Are you on target to having the right skills to develop the next generation solutions built on the new Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007? Would you like to get ready? Would you? Really? I've been asked about developing skills by ISV partners...

Why can't I sleep? Well it's a bizarre and frustrating sequence of events that has led me to this. I'm not going to go into the details of why I still don't have a working broadband connection. But if you are reading this and you live in the UK I’m sure...

Today Microsoft announced that it has agreed to acquire Medstory who provides search services for health information. The first thing to note about this approach to search is that it has a very clear context (health information) which aids in much greater...

WOW! This is a very clever idea and the fact that it's running in association with the XBOX 360 is very cool. As I mentioned in a previous post I'm not very well informed when it comes to sport. Normally Fantasy Leagues revolve around sport, mainly Football...

I recently created a demo machine with Microsoft Outlook 2007 Beta 2 TR (Technical Refresh) on a server with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and was impressed with the improvements made in the new 'Out of Office' assistant. I had heard that we were making...

More people will now be able to make use of Microsoft Live Search while on the move following the press release from Nokia yesterday. Advanced search capabilities are going to be available to Nokia customers powered by our Live Search for mobile that...