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Friday, May 16, 2008 7:41 PM

The amazing Worldwide Telescope

Wow! I downloaded the Worldwide Telescope today and I'm totally transfixed. no wonder the press has been raving about it so much. The mission of the WWT is twofold: To aggregate scientific data from major telescopes, observatories and institutions and
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:19 PM

Save your Word documents in DAISY format and create your own talking book

I was interested to see this article the other day about a new technology we've announced to help people who can't see too well and would prefer things to be read out using text to speech. This add in allows you to translate Open XML documents into DAISY
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:08 PM

Live Mesh - the next web...

I'm really delighted that we've announced the technology preview of Live Mesh (see the article in the NY times ) after hinting about it at MIX the other week. It allows all your devices to work together - wherever you are - even on the web - you can add
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:32 AM

Women in Games Conference: Men welcome too :-)

Nicola who works in our Rare Office (and gets to play Games regularly) has told me about a conference that's being organised for Women in Games later this year. So if you're looking to find some women gamers, software developers and engineers for your
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Monday, April 14, 2008 7:07 AM

Customer Satisfaction Survey

We're deep in planning for our next financial year which starts on July 1st and we've sent out some surveys to find out how you feel about what we've been doing so far this year. I'd like to see a response to the survey so we can gauge whether my ideas
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:47 PM

Heroes and Champions

Do you know any outstanding individuals and should they be recognised? The second phase of ChampionIT , a programme that celebrates the day-to-day efforts of IT Professionals has launched again for this quarter. and our judging panel have chosen their
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:08 PM

Exchanging contact data between social networking sites

Now this is a really interesting concept - and one that's going to make exchanging social networking contact data a lot more easy. John Richards has blogged about an agreement that we've put in place with Facebook , Bebo , Hi5 , Tagged and LinkedIn so
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:17 PM

From soup to nuts: All you want to know about OneNote

I've been a OneNote enthusiast since I discovered it in January, and I was even more delighted to meet OneNote guru Mike Tholfsen at my Management Excellence session in February. Well Mike has been kind enough to share lots of OneNote resources with me,
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:11 PM

Outlook Voice Access and the English language

Steve, who reads my blog mailed me with a problem he's got with Outlook Voice Access. It made me giggle... We’re delighted with our in house Outlook Voice Access, but it’s caused great amounts of laughter in the office all at my expense! Sometimes we
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:24 PM

Servant Leadership

We had a great question texted in to us for the panel discussion on Thursday - one that we couldn't answer. Tracy from IBM talked about how their women's group had gone out to South Africa and built two houses for the local community. She emphasised how
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:45 PM

the Action Pack quarterly update toolkit for Partners

I've been having a look at the Microsoft Action pack which seems to be rather good value for partners, especially the fact you get 4 updates per year and loads of sales and marketing materials. You get loads of software included in the £199 price too
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 11:54 AM

Management Excellence

I've been in Paris since yesterday afternoon for a meeting of the Management Excellence team across EMEA. This is a team of managers that have volunteered to "inspire, advise and assist the Management Excellence Community and HR to create a culture of
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Friday, November 23, 2007 12:57 PM

The Inventor of PowerShell

Jeffrey tells us why he invented PowerShell. The last 5 seconds of the movie made me smile. Nice guy... Technorati Tags: Jeffrey Snover , PowerShell
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 7:42 PM

Sending large files via email

Dave had an interesting issue with a mail he was trying to send: Yahoo only allow 10MB to be sent. I tried to send 47MB. I cannot delete it from Outlook. I get a message it is "sending". It will not send or delete. How do I delete the "outgoing Email"?
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 5:51 PM

Changing your password in MSN messenger

Well several months after I last blogged about this, I still get the same questions about how to change your password in MSN Massenger (or messenger, or mesenger if you prefer). Here's how you do it... Go to Account help central : then select the change
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