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Exceeding expectations
10 April 07 09:35 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
About a week ago I popped into the Reading Audi garage to book an appointment to get my Audi looked at as I had been having problems with the back window. I booked it in for Tuesday (today) and my expectation was for them to pick up the car from work, Read More...
More cross platform loveliness
09 April 07 05:06 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
One of the things I really love about what we do a Microsoft is that sometimes we like to 'break the rules', not in the sense that we do something we shouldn't, more that we do things that should have been done a long time ago. One of the more recent Read More...
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April MMMUG meeting
27 March 07 09:05 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   
Now that our Unified Communications technology is coming of age, there seem to be a number of communities popping up in relation to our technologies, this is great to see!. I met with Nathan Winters of MMMUG the other day at a Quest event and I just noticed Read More...
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Microsoft Response Point
20 March 07 10:23 AM | markdea | 2 Comments   
One of the problems with most telephony systems is that small business don't want to spend their time configuring and repatching phones when someone moves from desk to desk. They have enough to worry about without having to become PBX technicians as well. Read More...
IM supporting NineMillion.org ... you?
05 March 07 09:05 PM | markdea | 1 Comments   
Today I noticed that Steve Clayton has changed his Display Name for Windows Live Messenger, it now includes an unusual looking icon so I thought I might do some more investigation to figure out what is was all about. The Windows Live Messenger team have Read More...
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Exchange 2007 taking its ideas from Star Trek?
15 February 07 08:48 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   
Well not quite but it got you wondering didn't it ? Hot of the heels of Exchange 2007 is the Microsoft Transporter for Lotus Domino. This comes in a 32bit and a 64bit flavor, depending on your preference and in the words of the Exchange product team the Read More...
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Let Santa know your last minute present requests!
22 December 06 10:20 AM | markdea | 2 Comments   
I spotted this on someone's blog today and wanted to share this with you :-) It appears that in order to communicate with a new younger generation of kids, Santa has had a meeting with the Windows Live Messenger guys at Microsoft and has signed up for Read More...
Want to help out with the next generation of Microsoft software?
22 December 06 08:55 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   
I was reading the MS Exchange team blog and came across this interesting Microsoft site that I wasnt aware existed. Have you ever thought 'why does the x feature in Word work like that?' or 'why can get make Exchange do x?' then its well worth spending Read More...
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Battle of the titans - Family Fortunes
15 December 06 10:35 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   
Earlier this week we ran an internal event at Microsoft in UK to celebrate the launch of Exchange 2007, Windows Vista and Office 2007. We were joined by the 'Bobby Dazzler' himself .... David Dickinson! The theme was family fortunes and of course included Read More...
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Free Wifi
20 November 06 11:17 PM | markdea | 1 Comments   
Thought that might get your attention! Recently I went to visit the inlaws in Norfolk and you can only begin to imagine how disconnected I felt as their house had neither a mobile signal nor broadband :-(. Given that I have wireless internet access at Read More...
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Vista has released to manufacturing ... Exchange 2007 next!
08 November 06 10:17 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
Hot of the heels of my post yesterday, I am pleased to say that I received an email today to celebrate the fact that Windows Vista has RTM' d! This is great news and this is what the press is saying already about Vista already The long wait for Microsoft’s Read More...
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Its starting ......... 2007 Microsoft Office System goes gold!
08 November 06 12:11 PM | markdea | 1 Comments   
I joined the company five years ago in 2001 and a month later they launched Windows XP. I remember this being a big event both in the news as well as within Microsoft. A number of years have gone by since then and with the launch of Vista, Office and Read More...
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Windows Live Local goes 3D!
07 November 06 05:00 PM | markdea | 1 Comments   
local.live.com has now gone 3D and as you can see on the left hand side, its a pretty good start. When I initially heard about this, I thought it would be pretty limited in its use as not all of the UK will be mapped in 3D, but it acutally makes 2D map Read More...
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Beta the devil you know!
01 November 06 02:35 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
Recently I found myself in the strange position of actually having fully released software on my machine. This is quite an odd experience for me as I am currently running Vista and Office 2007, connecting to an Exchange 2007 mailbox ... none of which Read More...
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New FY, New Challenges, New Role :-)
18 August 06 05:08 PM | markdea | 1 Comments   
Back in February, I started writing to this blog as my role was changing slightly within Microsoft. Since then I have worked with lots of great partners and in particular have worked within a team of extremely talented people who have the tough job of Read More...
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