I'd actually forgotten about this until Sparky D starting raving about it earlier today. In the land of the PTS we quite often get asked about our availability on a certain day/week/month/year/decade. Obviously this is mainly with external parties as...

As some of you probably know it was TechReady 3 in Seattle last week and 5000+ Microsoft employees of a technical persuasion were in town for the biannual techno love-in. There was lots of cool stuff on show both in the keynotes and breakouts but as this...

I’ve been getting quite a few questions recently asking about various aspects of the 2007 release of SharePoint Technologies and as a result decided that it would be a good idea to compile a list of resources, a bit of a one stop shop, as a starting point...

Hello, I’m back from the Big Apple. So much for having a relaxing holiday, I spent the entire week running around various New York ‘must see’ sites and getting dragged into numerous shops. Anyway, the latest instalment of PTS-TV has made its way onto...

Well folks, I’m off for a bit of a break but I’ll be leaving the ‘Get Your Groove On’ workspace in the very capable hands of Jo Carpenter . Keep signing up and spreading the word about my little experiment. Already there are some great discussions going...

For those of you out there that like to get stuck in and get your hands dirty (come on, own up, you know who you are ) there are a number of new online trainings available. Details of these trainings can be found in this blog post from the SharePoint...

For those of you who want to experience Microsoft Office 2007 but aren’t too sure about installing the Beta 2 then how about a free, browser-based test drive? The real-time test drive does not require product installation or download—it's the fastest...

When I started work at Microsoft I was lucky in that 8 other people started on the very same day which gave me a ready-made group of friends for the new boy from up-north. I think that it says something about Microsoft and the people that are employed...

There’s nothing like a bit of self promotion so here goes... As you may or may not know, the UK PTS team have been trying a few new approaches to spreading the Microsoft word to as many of our partners and customers as possible. One of the vehicles...

Soooooo......long time no blog posting. Bad blogger. Slap on the wrist. Anyway I’d like to make a few excuses for lack of posting but there isn’t really anything that excuses my behaviour although I did have a very busy time for most of last week (and...

Today Bill Gates announced that he will shift his focus to working full-time for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and part-time for Microsoft from July 2008. Chairman and Senior Technology Advisor of Microsoft as a part-time gig. Better than a...

Well there goes one part of my 2007 Office demo! Acrobat is booted out of Office . I used to get cheers when I first started to show the ‘Save as PDF or XPS’. This is really a shame that we have had to cut this capability from Office as I believe that...

WORD around the water cooler is that we had approximately 500 000 downloads of 2007 Office Beta 2 in the first 2 days of public availability and I’m guessing that the OUTLOOK is that we will have many more. This has apparently taken some people by surprise...

Today at WinHEC , Bill Gates announced the immediate availability of the 2007 Microsoft Office Beta 2 and Windows Vista Beta 2 and Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 2. Time update my email signature....

Have you seen PTS-TV yet? No? Well, follow this link to get a bite-sized view of the team and our views on the vast array of Microsoft Technologies that we cover. Please feel free to leave comments on the site on what you liked/disliked/would like to...

I just thought I share my initial views on some of the latest builds of Windows Vista . To put it simply, Vista rocks! We all know that it looks different form XP and that is of course the first thing that adds to its ‘rockness’, it is an eye-catching...

After a slightly stalled and start with a lack of immediate entries after blog creation here we go.... Blogging directly from Word 2007! As you may or may not know Beta 2 of 2007 Office is (almost) upon us. One of the coolest knew things is the ability...

Hello one and all. I thought that is was about time that I joined in with this blogging malarkey and started to share my thoughts and findings on all things Microsoft Office and anything else that I've found interesting in the big bad world of technology...