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Friday, July 28, 2006 7:27 PM

On powerpoint ...

Inspired by Darren's recent post Tagged as Microsoft Office Powerpoint
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Friday, July 28, 2006 7:20 PM

Microsoft Research and Photography

One of the talks we had here at Tech-Ready on Wednesday was from Kevin Schofield . Kevin's General manager for Microsoft Research, and he blogged about the experience of talking to us. I'm always pleased to be allowed to keep company with the people in
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Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:33 PM

Landlord! IE7 for Everyone !!

The IE team have announced on their blog that when it is finalized, IE 7 will be pushed out via Windows Update. It also explains what to do if you or your company DON'T want it. You have a little while to act because this isn't going to happen until the
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Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:35 AM

Excitement - you can't beat it, you can't fake it

As I've mentioned over the last couple of days I'm at Tech-Ready - it's the event Microsoft runs twice a year in Seattle for it's technical field staff. On Monday we had the keynotes with Steve Ballmer and Kevin Turner . We have tradition of one-off videos
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Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:15 AM

Live Communications server now supports SQL 2005 SP1

I don't like posting mails to my blog, but the following extract from a "Good news" e-mail which I picked up earlier today, was explicitly marked as sharable and didn't need rephrasing. The RTC Product Group has now completed testing of Live Communications
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Monday, July 24, 2006 7:51 PM

We’ll know more Zune.

OK, OK I was wrong when I said My gut feel is that if we are [working on a player], it won't be branded Microsoft. Chris Stevenson told Billboard that there is a music player in the works and it will appear under the brand name of Zune. Chris is listed
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Monday, July 24, 2006 12:12 AM

Changes to TechNet

Since this blog appears under the TechNet brand , it seems a good place to spread the following news. From the start of August TechNet "standard" is going away in favour of 3 versions of TechNet Plus . TechNet plus Single user is what we have known for
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Friday, July 21, 2006 4:49 PM

How not to be read ...

Eileen posed a question in her blog recently . "with everyone over the age of 6 using IM for social related chat, and interaction, just how do we get the message out about corporate Instant Messaging as a useful business productivity tool " Simple: IM
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Friday, July 21, 2006 3:17 PM

Cartoon 4.

I'm afraid this one is a bit big, so you'll need to click on it and open it larger.
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Friday, July 21, 2006 7:47 AM

More virtualization goes free: more help for the environment

We've announced Windows Server 2003 DataCenter Edition R2 - which is quite a mouthful. There are two big changes here. One is the systems that can run DataCenter Edition; previously the DataCenter High Availability programme meant the OS was only available
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Friday, July 21, 2006 1:00 AM

Small details are important.

I've already mentioned that I am testing an interim build of Vista. One of the things that we have changed in this build is the way the OS deals with public and private networks. Vista can recognize a domain network and the chances are you only connect
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Friday, July 14, 2006 1:00 PM

Cartoon 3

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Monday, July 10, 2006 11:01 AM

iPod Killer ? Only if it has a French accent.

This Friday the BBC carried a story Microsoft has said reports that the company is planning an MP3 player to rival the iPod are based on "speculation and rumours". Indeed, they are. Speculation and rumours aren't always wrong. It made me go back to something
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Friday, July 07, 2006 9:47 PM

More tales from the dogfood bowl. Moving to the new Vista build

Earlier this week I was reminded that there is pain in being a beta tester. Some of that is peculiar to working at Microsoft. It seemed simple: I thought I'd try to upgrade my hard disk and my version of Vista, in one go. This laptop arrived fitted with
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Friday, July 07, 2006 3:53 PM

Cartoon 2.0

Following on from last week...
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Friday, July 07, 2006 3:30 PM

Using Vista’s Diskpart

[Updated to fix formatting issue] Earlier this week I moved build 5384 (Beta 2) of Vista on a 60GB hard disk to build 5456 on a 100GB one. There were some obstacles to overcome before I could do the restore, which I'll talk about in another post. At the
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:51 PM

Disappointment with the latest internet explorer

Talking to others who have upgraded to Build 5456 of Vista, it is clearly better than the Original Beta 2 build 5384, both in performance and polish. But it has it's disappointments. I have already said that drag and drop from explorer to a command prompt
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:41 PM

More on the Vista command prompt

When I made my "Vista Cool wall" post , I said there were some new command line tools. I came across these by the simple method of typing HELP at a command prompt and comparing the results between Vista and XP. I'd never noticed the separate executables
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:16 AM

A whole new kind of Driver problem

Once again a combination of Scoble and the BBC have alerted me to rather cool-sounding piece of news. The World Motor Sport Council announced yesterday Microsoft MES has been selected as the official ECU supplier to the FIA Formula One World Championship
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