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Maria Green

IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Asia Pacific

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January 2008 - Posts

Girl Geek Dinner in Sydney
Time for more dinners for all the geeky girls out there, this time in Sydney! On February 21 st , the first Girl Geek Dinner will take place at 6 PM at Lindt Chocolate Cafe, Cockle Bay. The first dinner doesn’t have a specific topic so think of Read More...
Heroes Happen Here Comic Series
Check out the new Heroes Happen Here Comics that will be coming out every day from now until the launch. To check them out and subscribe to the RSS Feed, visit Heroes Happen Here Read More...
Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report
Jeff Jones just released the Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report . The report looks at vulnerability disclosures and security updates for Windows Vista and compares it with Windows XP and other workstation operating systems such as Red Hat, Ubuntu Read More...
Web Development on IIS 7.0 rocks!
One of the members of the Windows Server 2008 Insiders group in Philippines has now a finished a project I want to share with you.  Elczar P. Adame is a senior technology consultant in ApSmith Solutions Corporation . They have around 50 employees, Read More...
SQL Server 2008 roadmap
As you probably already heard, SQL Server 2008 will not be RTM’d by the time for the Heroes Happen Here Launch. That’s been the plan all the time but now we have some clearer timeline for CTP’s, RC’s and RTM. The feature complete CTP will be available Read More...
Heroes Happen Here
Have you checked out the Heroes Happen Here page yet? It’s your one stop shop on all you need to know about the launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Even if you can’t attend the big launch event on February 27 th in LA Read More...
Gorgeous Geeks are officially launched
Last week I was in KL for the Gorgeous Geeks launch and first dinner. It was a great event with interesting topics and questions from the audience and I loved all the interaction in the room. We were more than 50 people at the dinner and when we officially Read More...
Time for another Girl Geek dinner in New Zealand!
This might be a bit last minutes but on Thursday, January 17 th , it’s time for the 2 nd Girl Geek Dinner in Auckland, New Zealand. The topic for the session is “What is Agile?” For more information about the session and how to register, check out their Read More...
Piloting Windows Vista
Windows Vista SP1 is soon here and maybe you now start thinking about what a deployment would mean for your company and how you plan a deployment project. I found an article on TechNet; How to Pilot Windows Vista that covers how to select which users Read More...
TechFest 2008 in Manila
It’s time for the yearly TechFest in Manila, Philippines! On January 22 nd , there will be a full day event with sessions for both IT Pros and Developers covering topics like Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Office Communication Read More...
Bill's last day at work
You HAVE to watch this, a video on Bill Gates last day at work :) ";" galleryimg="no" mce_src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/mariaj/WindowsLiveWriter/Billslastdayatwork_109A1/videod915602aabc6.jpg"> Read More...
Gorgeous Geeks first dinner
Calling all women in Malaysia! On January 16th it's time for the launch of the " Gorgeous Geeks " community in Malaysia. The first event will be a dinner where the topic to be discussed is Women of Today vs. Women of Tomorrow. If you sign up as member Read More...
TechNet Roadshow in Malaysia
It’s time to tour Malaysia again! Last year at this time I had the opportunity to go to East Malaysia and Penang to do TechNet events. This year I will not join since we have Azra in place to do technical sessions for IT Pros. The agenda is focusing on Read More...
Remote Apps in Windows Server 2008
Happy New Year! After a few days break to celebrate the New Year I’m now back in the office with new energy! I’m right now trying to go through emails and catch up on things and one thing I want to tell you about is a new Windows Server 2008 project that Read More...
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