Browse here to see the details and register. You can see a list of sessions and find out all about the speakers. In the next few days you'll also be able to download the presentations if you've registered. I'll be @ Ask The Experts as much as I can...

I'm working for the day at the annual UK Oracle User Group event in Birmingham - there are two thousand delegates. We have a large stand upon which I'm demonstrating Windows Vista. I've been showing IE7 as pretty much everyone else does. I've also...

Halloween Spooktacular Date: Monday 31 October 2005 Topic: Understanding and Fighting Malware: Viruses, Spyware and Rootkits Overview: On this Halloween night, join Microsofts very own Van Helsing in how to Exorcise your PC. Todays internet is fraught...

As it's Friday afternoon (in the UK at least) I want to share this with you - I took the following picture yesterday as it intrigued me Hopefully it's not what it appears to be! Presumably it's something to do with electrics

Tony Blair kicked off the Get Safe Online campaign at a press launch in London this morning. Microsoft in partnership with the UK Government and a many large companies are evangelising the importance of information security to the entire UK population...

I've been sat on my hands for weeks now as I've wanted to tell you all about WHY I've been rather quiet on the blog front. I've been working on the planning preparations and implementation for Microsoft's contribution to the UK Government's Security Consumer...

Like many of you I've heard all the stories about how PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) "will save the day" for all our security concerns - this message was pushed particularly hard four to five years ago. PKI is a component of infrastructure which makes...

Browse to business travel stops here for a light hearted view business travel :-)

I'm presentating two sessions from TechEd (written by Steve Riley, Jesper Johansson and Byron Hynes) tomorrow night (Tuesday 18th October) in our office on Thames Valley Park near Reading - the event's free to attend. If you'd like to join us then browse...

Eileen and I thoroughly enjoyed explaining and demonstrating the various aspects of blogging. Eileen posted an entry earlier today containing all of the links to sites and tools used last night. I showed you how to set up a blog and post on MSN...

The audience in tonight's TechNet event asked whether there's an easy way to restrict who can access your blog - particularly if you'd like to limit the audience to be friends of your Children. I know that some blog engines provide this granularity...

Eileen Brown and I are teaching a room full of people (perhaps you!) about the wonders of Blogging. Details of upcoming events can be found here

Thanks to Bryan for making me smile with his post about security earlier today - he included a picture of Yoda with a light saber!

Thanks to everyone present for making the evening such a huge success. I'll post more about this later but in particular thanks to Kathi, Kat & Joy for the debate (I started!) about whether the term "Girl Geek" was infact an oxymoron - as you can...

No I'm not a girl! Chaps are allowed to go if invited. Details of the "Girl Geek Dinner" can be found here . The usual suspects have kindly arranged the dinner - it's a Mexican Buffet to be held in Central London. Can Girls be Geeks? Before you flame...

I recommend browsing to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/default.mspx as a top level page to find out what's important with security from a technical perspective. There's a link titled "Want less Technical Information" which links to the consumer...

There's some guidance on the Microsoft website targetted at helping both parents and children to blog safely - click here to view it. I'm sure we've all been amazed at how much personal information the average teenager gives out on their blog. The naive...

The wait has been long as those of you who are familiar with the time it takes to achieve EAL4 approval will understand. Common Criteria is an assessment/approval programme for the security capability of software products as agreed by many governments...