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Exchange in the cloud or on the ground?
18 November 09 10:02 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Following the price cut on the desperately-in-need-of-renaming BPOS services recently, I’ve been talking with a few people about the where the tipping point might be for running Exchange in house vs using some form of hosted provision. There are plenty Read More...
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Microsoft Online Services prices cut
06 November 09 04:37 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
The snappily-titled Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) offering, announced some price cuts the other day… I heard from someone internally that the price cuts were driven by increased economy of scale – ie. as more customers signed Read More...
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XP Mode in Windows 7 saved me money
12 October 09 05:12 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I've been running Windows 7 at home for a while now, and have been very pleased with it - on a decent spec machine (Quad core, 4Gb RAM, lots of SATA-II disk etc), it absolutely flies. As did Vista before it, if truth be told. When I got this machine, Read More...
Outlook 2010 beta and E.164 number format updater
06 October 09 09:26 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Well hello again; it’s been a while. Normal service should now infrequently resume. I thought I’d update the instructions of a previous post, after I was showing someone how to use my old “ Contacts updater ” application to make all their Outlook contact Read More...
Ferrari powered by Sharepoint
18 August 09 03:07 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I noticed that the Sharepoint case study for Ferrari today, posted at the end of July – link here . The case study includes a cool video hosted in a nice Silverlight player – looks really slick and well worth a look, especially if you’re one of the Tifosi Read More...
Pinpoint a Microsoft Partner
14 August 09 07:20 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
This site has had something of a quiet launch – I first saw it a couple of weeks ago and was really impressed – it’s called Pinpoint and is a new take on the question, “How do I find a good Microsoft partner?” Simply enter a search (a name of a known Read More...
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Mapping with Bing
08 August 09 08:37 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
As a follow on to the Bing post from the other day, I was talking with a guy who’d spent some years working in the Microsoft mapping team in Redmond – he’d talked about the progress the company had made in online mapping technology and the challenges Read More...
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I Bing; do u Bing 2?
06 August 09 08:11 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
It might take a while before you “bing” someone before going out on a date with them, or you “bing” a question out onto the internet… stranger things have happened though. I hear stories of people visiting bing.com every day, just to see what the picture Read More...
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Office Web Apps complement, not replace, Office
04 August 09 11:54 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
The Office 2010 announcement a couple of weeks ago, (publicly) lifted the lid on the Office Web Applications, either as a set of web-based Office apps that a customer could host on their own metal (and expose to the outside world, perhaps), or as something Read More...
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Playing with Microsoft Tag
31 July 09 09:45 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I know it’s been around in some form for a little while now, but I’ve only started looking at Tag – a way of essentially representing URLs in a camera-phone friendly way, such that merely pointing the phone at the “tag” takes you there. Head over to http://tag.microsoft.com Read More...
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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...
Windows 7 Release Candidate available now
05 May 09 04:17 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
I’ve now upgraded 4 different PCs to Win7 Release Candidate (build 7100) and each one has gone swimmingly – you too can share in the fun by downloading the release candidate for yourself . The Windows development team are looking to test the upgrade process Read More...
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Office 2007 SP2 now available
28 April 09 07:47 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I’ve been beta testing Office 2007 SP2 since the beginning of the year, and it’s been great – the single biggest reason to use it is the myriad improvements made to Outlook, in terms of stability & performance (particularly relating to search and Read More...
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Exchange 2010 beta & high availability strategies
15 April 09 10:45 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
Exchange 2010 beta released - significant changes to architecture of clustering and high availability make provisioning highly available servers simpler and less expensive. Read More...
Outlook Thread Compressor download now available
11 April 09 02:34 PM | Ewan | 7 Comments   
Nearly a year ago, I wrote about Thread Compressor on here – it’s an add-in to Outlook which removes unnecessary emails, on the assumption that most people reply to mail and leave the original intact, so you could keep the last mail in each branch of 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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