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Start-ups don’t use Microsoft?

Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:41 PM by James Senior
Last week I watched one of my favourite bands – Turin Brakes - play a free gig in Camden, London .  They were headlining at Intel’s Studio ; a competition for unsigned bands to win a record deal. When they came on stage they told us they haven’t Read More...
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Intel, HP and Yahoo get in a cloud together

Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:19 PM by James Senior
News from TechCrunch today that Intel, HP and Yahoo are teaming up together to get in the Cloud Computing arena that is currently occupied by Microsoft, Google and Amazon. There are probably only three companies out there who can execute on a Cloud Computing Read More...
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Reflections on Ray

Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 7:24 PM by James Senior
I arrived back in San Francisco last night after a great conference in Atlanta, and despite being a little drained (totally my own choice) I couldn’t help be excited by two particular keynotes I saw.  Firstly Craig Mundie gave some insight into some Read More...
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Perspective from the Web 2.0 crowd on Microsoft’s hosting announcements

Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:36 PM by James Senior
It’s always interesting to listen to what Techcrunch and it’s readers say about Microsoft’s moves in certain markets and yesterday at the Worldwide Partner Conference there was lots to talk about.  Microsoft unveiled it’s hosted offering for Exchange, Read More...
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When the Cloud goes down

Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:20 AM by James Senior
Over the weekend one of the services in the cloud that I consume - Statcounter - experienced some unplanned downtime.  In this instance it wasn't simply a hard drive failure or CPU burnout that could have been mitigated by a mirrored database or Read More...
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Software + Services announcements

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:13 PM by James Senior
Over the past month we've been making some announcements about Microsoft Online Services which is our first foray into the world of online service-based software.  This is somewhat old news but worth reiterating the main points here: Microsoft Online Read More...
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The Diskless PC and Vista Enterprise Centralised Desktop

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:52 PM by James Senior
What's the beef here then?  Well in a nutshell Diskless PCs and Vista Enterprise Centralised Desktop open up new methods for IT departments to roll out and manage their desktop estate.  These new methods introduce different benefits so allow Read More...
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Software + Services: edging toward reality

Posted Saturday, December 01, 2007 6:16 PM by James Senior
I was speaking at the 2007 West Midlands ICT Conference a couple of weeks back about Microsoft's Software + Services Strategy. The talk focused mainly on what S+S is, where Microsoft is going with it and provided some reality with a few demos. Microsoft Read More...
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Mix UK Videos Up

Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 3:44 PM by James Senior
Woah been a busy past couple of weeks.  Been doing Windows Server 2008 events up and down the country and moved apartment so been up to my eyeballs!  Although I didn't move far it was fairly stressful and I'm now left with a weekend of unpacking.  Read More...
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Live.com velocity

Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 11:25 AM by James Senior
Interesting eye chart from Compete.com which shows the "velocity" of Live.com relative to google.com and yahoo.com. For those of you who don't know, Live.com is Microsoft's internet search engine. Compete.com describe velocity as: Velocity is an effective Read More...
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