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The Emperor’s New Clothes
28 July 09 11:35 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Firstly, apologies for the silence in recent weeks – it’s been a busy time and, well, y’know. Once you’re a week or two behind blog posting, you might as well be a month or two behind… Anyway. Lots has happened IT-wise in the last few months. Windows Read More...
Look what I found in my loft: a 9-year old netbook
30 January 09 06:56 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I splashed out a week or two ago, and bought a Samsung NC10 netbook – a bargain at under £300, and it runs Windows 7 really well. Impressed with the size and utility of the thing, I recalled a forerunner of the netbook, so went rooting around in my “box Read More...
Top ten things for <insert company name> to do in 2009
13 January 09 11:38 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
It seems this time of year brings out the soothsayer in lots of IT journalists and analysts, if the volume of “ten things to do” articles is anything to go by. Mary-Jo Foley posted a couple of weeks ago on what she thought Microsoft might/should do this Read More...
Imperialism, Metric-centricity and Live Search
17 April 08 12:51 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   
I'm a child of a mixed up time when it comes to measures and the likes. I am feet and inches tall, stones and pounds heavy, when it's cold outside, it's below zero degrees, but when it's hot, it's in the 80s. I learned small measurement in mms and cms, Read More...
Seadragon begets Silverlight "Deep Zoom"
12 March 08 09:37 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
There's a headline that might baffle... Seadragon Inc was a Seattle-based software company who had done a load of work on handling vast quantities of imagery and being able to manipulate the data in real-time, on-screen. Microsoft acquired Seadragon and Read More...
Bird's Eye view on Live maps - how cool is that?
06 January 08 11:02 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
The Windows Live search team did a pretty major update (a few months ago) to a number of elements of the search engine at live.com , but one of the nicest is the maps integration. Type in a postcode, a place or business name and click on Maps and you'll Read More...
I need some Flo Control - or Arnie Control, more like
02 January 08 08:31 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Regulars may remember the trouble my PC was having with Arnie the cat ... well I could use some more technology in and around the house to solve another little problem. Arnie & his sister have now got quite big - they're just over a year old, so fully-functional Read More...
Windows Home Server - would you have it in your home?
16 October 07 12:24 AM | Ewan | 3 Comments   
I just read an interesting article from Adrian Kingsley-Hughes on ZDNet about Windows Home Server , speculating whether there really was a market for such a device, and who would buy it. Adrian's point - and it is a valid one, if you know anything about Read More...
Technology changes during the Blair era
27 June 07 05:30 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
So Tony Blair stepped down as the UK's Prime Minister this week, just over 10 years since his ascendance to the position. Funnily enough, I got my "10 year" service award at Microsoft recently (a fetching crystal sculpture and a note from Bill 'n' Steve Read More...
Surface er, surfaces
30 May 07 05:14 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
The secret project codenamed Milan was announced today, as "Microsoft Surface": there have been a few videos floating around from Microsoft Research open days and the like, but the announced technology has had a good deal of marketing gloss applied and Read More...

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Ewan Dalton:: Some hopefully sensible commentary around various technologies, starting with Exchange Server and other communications technologies but anything to do with software and electronics, basically... I've been at Microsoft for over 10 years so have a rich history of playing with stuff that's in development.

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