Swiss IT Professional & TechNet Blog : Miscellaneous

Microsoft Announces Plans for July 2008 Transition for Bill Gates

MJDorner — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:47:00 GMT

Bill Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role in Microsoft effective July 2008 to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and will continue to serve as the company’s chairman and an advisor on key development projects. Ray Ozzie assumes the title of chief software architect and will begin working side by side with Gates on all technical architecture and product oversight responsibilities, while Craig Mundie takes the new title of chief research and strategy officer and will work closely with Gates to assume his responsibility for the company’s research and incubation efforts.

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Boosting Data Transfer with TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) Technology

MJDorner — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:32:00 GMT

In May we announced the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scaleable Networking Pack that adds new architectural enhancements and application programming interfaces to support the next generation of network acceleration and hardware-based offload technologies (see Blog entry)

Dell now published a Whitepaper that explores the anticipated benefits of TOE Technology developed by Broadcom, Dell and Microsoft.

You find the article on Dell's website: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060132-Broadcom.pdf

“Watch the very best of WinHEC” on IT’s ShowTime!

MJDorner — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:21:00 GMT

Windows Vista Beta 2, Windows Server platform directions, major trends, innovative technologies and more were shown at WinHEC 2006 in Seattle. Now you can watch a selection of WinHec technical sessions as well as the 3 keynote presentations by Bill Gates, Will Poole and Bob Muglia, on IT’s ShowTime! by TechNet.

French URL: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/winhec2006.aspx

German URL: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/winhec2006.aspx

A posting on my own behalf: Are you like Jane Doe?

MJDorner — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:14:00 GMT

Jane Doe is IT Pro Evangelist. As an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft Jane is passionate about reaching out to and engaging with the IT Pro community across Switzerland. She focuses on working with a broad range of audiences within the IT Pro community to foster relationships and convey Microsoft technologies and solutions. She is proud to be able to leverage her real life hands-on experience to relate to the challenges faced by the IT Pro community today. Jane is an integral part of the Microsoft team that drives awareness, education and training through events and directly engaging with Switzerland's professional communities, including IT managers, infrastructure specialists and architects as well as systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and community leaders.

Jane Doe has a strong technical background with 5+ years of relevant field pre-sales experience in IT systems or application infrastructure and she likes to present in front of a broader audience. She has the technical expertise necessary to gain credibility with and influence key community members. She also has a BA/BS and MS degree in IT and is MCSE. Jane Doe is fluent in German and English and has good knowledge of French.

If you think you are like Jane Doe (or John Doe), are looking for a new opportunity and want to work for Microsoft then you could be our new IT Pro Evangelist and you should have a look at following link: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/international/default.asp?lang=de&loc=che&job=90302374&jobslist=

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2006 FIFA World Cup fixture list for Outlook

MJDorner — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:18:00 GMT

A bit off topic for this blog, however I thought some of you might be interested in this as it allows you to easily add the fixtures of the 2006 FIFA World Cup to your Outlook schedule. The link below takes you to a site that features a .zip file containing all fixtures in Outlook meeting format, so you can drag and drop them into your Outlook calendar.

http://www.geocities.com/andrewjamesmorgan/

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