Welcome to TechNet Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

May 2007 - Posts

Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:06 PM

ExpressCard (not express delivery), travel and Benchmarks.

Back in March I wrote that 64 bit Vista marked the end of the line for my Lexar 32bit Cardbus adapter. It got lost in the post on the way from Hong Kong. I gave it enough time to be sure it really was lost and the e-bay seller sent me another which arrived
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:57 AM

Privacy again

I've managed to get a lot of my concerns about privacy down to a simple statement. "Databases of everything" worry me. Where we've been, what we've bought, who we've associated with. I alluded to a conversation I was in last week where we talked about
Posted by jamesone | 17 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:12 AM

Microsoft Surface. Alias Play table. AKA Milan.

Scoble had an interesting link to Mary Jo . I had seen a lightning demo of this before, but I thought it was still in the Research stage. I did quick search on the intranet and didn't find much. Then someone in the office said " Microsoft.com/surface
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:46 PM

Getting a better PDF experience

Lets get prejudice out up front. I pendulum between liking Adobe products (e.g. Lightroom), admiring the technology but hating the way it's used ( Hugh has it right when it comes to flash use ), and getting thoroughly ticked off with PDF. e.g. Microsoft's
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:50 PM

Xbox 360 - a nice surprise at Amazon.co.uk

I've been dragging my feet about upgrading my Xbox, but some of the bearings are getting a bit noisy, and the more time I spend with Vista's Media Center the more I want to use the Xbox as an extender. Then there's the gaming side: I quite like driving
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Friday, May 25, 2007 4:04 PM

Loves and hates

Yesterday was spent on an18 hour "jaunt" to speak for 90 minutes at an HP event in Portugal. Before I left I Eileen asked why I hadn't responded to her tag with this latest meme . name at least 5 programs (web or standalone) that you love that go against
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:16 PM

When the police think we're becoming a Surveillance society...

Here's an interesting factlet. A couple of miles from my house, in one of those villages with a double-barreled name which could belong to an old English actor, behind a 900 year old English parish church, is the grave of George Orwell . I've mentioned
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:27 AM

Doing our bit ... but wishing we didn't have to.

One of the pieces of music I have in my car is Anne Clark's Elegy for a lost summer. One line from this is "Can you feel this pain, and keep your heart unbroken" . I'm the father of a 3 year old, so the coverage from Portugal about Madeleine McCann keeps
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Friday, May 18, 2007 3:51 PM

Some interesting facts about Vista and why the logo matters

A mail came round with a few interesting facts about Vista - which I thought I'd share with you. Sales fact 1: Nearly 40 million Windows Vista licenses had been sold as of 100 days after its January launch. If my sums are right that's 400K per day 16,700
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:24 PM

Technical Careers Showcase: an Open evening on June 7th

I've blogged before about what a good place to work Microsoft can be. Well the Microsoft Recruitment Team has asked us to spread the word that they are running a Recruitment Open Evening on Thursday 7th June to showcase the exciting technical career opportunities.
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:10 PM

Office Communications Server round-up

Two sets of information have come my way about OCS. The first is the licensing is beginning to get clearer. Please don't send me questions on upgrades and pricing – talk to whoever you normally go to when you acquire software. Licensing The different
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:51 PM

Goodbye "Longhorn" it's been nice to know you

We have announced at Winhec the name for longhorn server. It's was tough to come up with a name which embodied all the facets of the new product. We worked hard with agencies and focus groups. And finally we've come up with a name that really captures
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:21 PM

PCs and Macs. And smartphones.

Having had a go at Google, I suppose it's time to look at Apple. Odd as it may sound Microsoft people don't dislike Apple. iPod's market penetration among Microsoft employees is probably higher than the population as a whole. Ask many of us what hardware
Posted by jamesone | 11 Comments
Filed under: ,
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:04 PM

Halo 3 - and well kept secrets

Part of me says I should not have to learn about what's happening at Microsoft from the BBC. My dive buddy in Malta was asking me about Halo 3 and I was telling him that consumer product launch dates are known to only a very few - it's one of the few
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 2:36 PM

Google stories ?

I blogged before about Google reading peoples documents , but one of my colleagues in the US shared this with the world this morning From: Ryan Pollock [mailto:Something@google.com] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:30 AM To: something@google.com Subject:
Posted by jamesone | 9 Comments
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 2:13 PM

Windows Server virtualization and taking a dive.

I've spent the last few days diving. Scuba and photography fight it out for third place in my interests (after family and work). To understand the hazards involved I studied scuba accident reports, and they mirror things I'd read in aviation: the change
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:17 PM

Voice control ... sooner than I thought.

Maybe I'm getting mellow in my old age, or maybe things in Microsoft IT are changing. There was a time when I really didn't think much them - directly after they off-shored the help-desk was the low point. But since then they've been doing this and that
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:05 AM

Webcasts on Certification - and 40% off !

With all the new products which we're seeing this year, the question does bubble up "How does this impact certification ?" . The people who run the MC* programmes have put together a set of web casts. These have already happened (click to see more and
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Sunday, May 06, 2007 6:57 PM

If your data is in the cloud... where's your privacy ?

Another story which has been doing the rounds this week, has been stories that has been the rounds this week has been about a crack for HD DVD content ... Catching up on my reading I found Sharon's post Who controls your data . There are a couple of issues
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Filed under: ,
Saturday, May 05, 2007 3:10 PM

Privacy. And a tale of headless riders, Police blogs and security theatre

When dealing with data privacy, we need to think about proper use of Personally Identifiable information (PII) - the kind which can be used to identify someone and which tells us something about them. In the UK, the Information Commissioner , oversees
Posted by jamesone | 4 Comments
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 6:21 PM

Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" E-Learning

This online learning We are putting Microsoft Learning Resources for Windows Server "Longhorn " online. Currently there is a collection of five clinics that introduce the new features and functionality in You can take the entire collection or just the
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:38 PM

Vista After hours

A little while back we dreamed up a session to look at what you do can do with Vista when the day job is over. Originally I was going to deliver it but in the end we decided James Senior and Matt McSpirit would be better. They delivered the first version
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:21 PM

What we do in 18 days takes Google 3 months ... and other stats

Yahoo finance has a story "10 reinvigorating facts about Microsoft's profits." : The writer opens "I have written extensively about Microsoft's problems" ... and goes on " Microsoft last week announced quarterly revenue of $14.4 billion and net income
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
 
Page view tracker