My colleague James O'Neill beat me to this one.  SP1 for Office is finally here, and none the sooner as I was ready to destroy my laptop and beat it with a sledgehammer because of the stability issues with Outlook. Funny story, a lot of the bad rap...

I know a few of you who attended my presentation on Search Server 2008 had questions regarding wildcard search capabilities. Sammy Jankis sums up SharePoint's wildcard search functionality pretty well. After reading his article if you find that you want...

Thursday was a busy day at Microsoft.  RC1 for Longhorn is now out and available for download.  To read up on some analysis about the update, check out James O'Neill's post . Going over to the other side of the "pond," Keith Combs...

To my non-British readers out there, I will leave it up to you to ponder and visualize the delicacies of the UK.  This was posted in our break-room in the London office.  OKAY OKAY OKAY I HAVE to ask...what the hell are Midland Faggots? ...

Thank you all who attended the London TechNet event, Beyond SharePoint: Advanced Solutions in Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search. Please follow this link to download the attached PDF of my presentation around Microsoft Search Server 2008. ...

During my presentation of Search Server 2008 in London in front of a great audience of about 200, I was showing off how businesses can pull in search results from 3rd party search engines using Federated Search . In my demo, I showed how using The Register...

I'm lazy today so I'll just copy an excerpt from Slashdot about something I will definitely be watching around open standards and file formats. lisah writes "Linux.com's Robin 'Roblimo' Miller will moderate a live debate today, Wednesday, December...

Moving to the UK, some have questioned my motives, many have questioned my sanity, but almost all have complimented my style. I dress myself using one value, one ideal, that at the end of the day five minus four equals one, "one love." Why do...

Last friday, Microsoft took another step in improving its online consumer platform by purchasing WebFives. Webfives is an online rich-media blogging/social networking site geared towards filmmakers, musicians, and charities. It's technology is unique...

So anyone who attended our events in Falkirk and Manchester, thank you for attending and here is the extended version of the PowerPoint presentation I used.  Please send me your questions via this blog so I can follow-up and answer them.  There...

So I presented at Falkirk to an awesome audience about Search Server 2008 and had some interesting questions.  I've learned in my travels that geography plays a huge part in the sophistication of an audience.  Don't get me wrong, I am not insulting...

My blogging has been on hiatus because of a lot of traveling these past few weeks.  I've logged over 12,000 miles in two weeks and all my clocks are on different time zones.  As I pickup the the pieces of the train-wreck that is my inbox these...

So for the last few weeks I've been secretly blogging without a computer. I won't tell you which articles, but a few of them were written, hyperlinked, and published via my Orange M3100; shitty phone, great pda. I accomplished this amazing feat by using...

Of course not, if you do, you're dumb.  Please unsubscribe from my RSS feed now please.  During a late night after-party recap, me and James started talking about cool stuff *deployment? Where's Kanye? *  that people should do but don't...

With spam reaching almost 90% of all Internet traffic, I am proud to say that I get maybe one message of spam every two months.  Seriously.  My Microsoft inbox is clean, so is my GMail account.  But every now and then I have to check my...

On a personal note, I'm really sad to see Scott Stuart leave the company.  I only know Scott because of a few presentations he's done as Microsoft's CIO.  Being responsible for how technology is implemented in a global 80,000 employee organization...

The evangelists at Microsoft Across America have just released a great 8-part screencast of Windows Server 2008 Core. None of the videos are longer than eight minutes and most are around five so WATCH THEM ALL! Here is an excerpt from Keith Combs's article...

      Tacky tag-line, I know and I promise only to do it sparingly in the future.  Following up on my FAQ article explaining what Microsoft Search Server is , I thought it would be relevant to inform all of you that the product is...

Microsoft is excited announce two new product offerings.  Search Server 2008 and 2008 Express will allow organizations to easily implement enterprise search capabilities in their environment irrespective of SharePoint, which was required for our...

Being new to the UK, I've learned two valuable lessons; one, when a cab driver talks about the weather, always agree with him.  "Weather's cold today sir?," says the cabbie.  "Oh no, zin Germany, much colder, zis is noting,"...

I've told a lot of people that Mac Office 2008 is one of the coolest consumer products that Microsoft has in the pipeline.  It is really going to open up the way students and home users generate content for projects, classes, and even for business...

The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) is throwing a Halo 3 showdown with the grand prize of one million dollars muaha muahahaha .  This sacred event is taking place in none other than my home town of Dallas, TX at  the Hyatt Regency hotel...

My favorite excerpt from this fun interview was the following: "What about full Web browsing? I mean, that seems to be the one feature of the iPhone that would also benefit business users. Ballmer: It sure would." Simple and blunt answering is...

Metadata is information within a document that provides indexing intelligence to other applications and subsystems. Metadata is what makes search engines and filters effective and almost every modern media file from a photo to an excel sheet has some...