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Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:35 PM

A uniquely good day to be at Microsoft

I don’t think you can have missed that today was the day Windows 7 became generally available. I’ve been trying to come up with some unique angle on this for a blog post and not getting anywhere. Two thoughts related thoughts I will share. The first:
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:18 PM

My enduring love for OCS .. and a Nice windows 7 feature

My job as an evangelist focuses on Windows platform (client and Server OS), including management (i.e. PowerShell) and Virtualization. But there are other Microsoft products which from my day to day use of them I feel evangelical about. One is Windows
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:10 PM

It's not about computation, it's connection and visualization

Yesterday Microsoft UK had its company conference in Brighton, and I always have mixed feelings about these affairs. We transported 1000 people 100 miles and told and with no sense of irony whatsoever we told them about what the company was doing about
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:15 AM

IE 8 testing - part 2

One of the things about a new browser is that various web sites expect particular ID strings to identify browsers they know and get awkward if they don't recognize the browser ID. So one of the nice things in IE 8 beta 2 is that you can select compatibility
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:15 PM

Mail stress.

I started typing this blog post at 07:21. Outlook has already received the first 50 items of the day. Most of which were from night-owls in the US, a few from Asia/Pacific, and only a couple from European insomniacs. Yesterday it pulled down at least
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 4:12 PM

Cars, jobs, and retailing. Why belief matters

A few days ago now, I ordered the replacement for my company car. If you don't live in the UK, it's probably news to you that our tax system means that many people get a car and fuel as part of their salary. Those who qualify at Microsoft get to choose
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:21 PM

Systems of belief ... and Ray Ozzie.

My colleague Orlando has a thankless task. We have our big training event this week and Orlando has the job of pulling together the "summit" for evangelists the weekend before the event. Past summits have made it difficult to believe in the
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:39 PM

Off topic. The Cost of fuel, market forces and being green

Part of my salary package working at Microsoft UK is a company car, for which Microsoft buys the fuel. I can opt out of this scheme and take money instead (which is taxed like any other Salary payment) and the Tax office also works out the notional value
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:53 PM

Top travel tip. Use the calendar. Properly

One of the things that we noticed on the roadshow was the *much* better system for getting us feedback (see here and here oh and here ) and - always looking for ways to improve our processes - a couple of us noted that there's a big document mailed out
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Friday, May 16, 2008 8:43 AM

On knowing your sh*t

It's been an interesting few days, Monday was the Glasgow road-show event and Thursday was our day in Newcastle. The team didn't look upon flying with any great enthusiasm. So rather than returning home, drawing breath and heading North again we decided
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:46 PM

On Ninjas.

Over the weekend one of the many Davids I count among my friends mailed me a curious job title from his organization. Yesterday, in one of those moments of serendipity Viral told me about one of the guys in Redmond who has the job title of "Zune
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Friday, April 04, 2008 3:36 PM

Who says health and safety people have no sense of humour ?

This from a colleague who says her team's blog is far to serious for this kind of Friday afternoon frivolity. I was walking through [Microsoft UK Building 5]  lobby and saw one of our maintenance guys putting up a display box with a sword in it.
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:50 PM

Who makes a good decision ?

I provided Eileen with a quote to use in the Management Excellence programme she's been involved in.  She called me a "Non-manager who championed management Excellence", and I replied I was "in favour of all kinds of Excellence*. My
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 7:39 PM

And I get paid for doing this ?

Actually, no. I got bribed with free sandwiches to use my lunch time testing stuff for First lego League. I didn't even know we supported these folks, but my colleague Paul Foster does a lot of work with enthusiast communities like these, in places like
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:24 AM

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This article has been removed. The article implied a number of traits about Mr Richard Morrell which are entirely without basis. I apologise for both the factual inaccuracy and the offence caused to Mr Morrell through this article.
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