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Microsoft and Zend Announce Technical Collaboration

Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:31 PM by mattmcspirit
There has just been an announcement detailed on the Microsoft PressPass and also the http://port25.technet.com/ sites, providing details on the Technical Collaboration between Microsoft and Zend Technologies. This collaboration, announced at the Zend/PHP Read More...
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Vista Boxes: You gotta love those curves...

Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:03 PM by mattmcspirit
Forget J-Lo, check out these curvy beauties: At least we have a box that represents the style of the product! It's a cool product when installed, so why shouldn't it have a cool box to sit on the shelf! From the pictures over on the MS.com image site Read More...
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1080p on Xbox 360! It's True, HD...But with component video?

Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:54 PM by mattmcspirit
Well, kind of Woo Hoo - I don't have a 1080p TV, but still, it's a move in the right direction, right! Woo Hoo! 1080p support is just one of the new features in the latest Xbox Live Dashboard Update - the full list can be found here . Some of the features Read More...
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Windows Media Player 11 - Alive and Kickin'

Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:25 PM by mattmcspirit
It's been coming for a while , and for those of you using Vista, you've had the pleasure of it for a long time now, but Windows Media Player 11 is finally here, and, in my opinion, its a huge step up from WMP10. I posted a while back, when the Beta 2 Read More...
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Caption Competition - Time for a chuckle...

Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:42 PM by mattmcspirit
Completely Vista-unrelated (but it is still technology!), yet when I saw this, I had to make sure you guys saw it too. I stumbled upon it when reading my RSS feeds - it's taken from Technology Filter , and is apparently an "early prototype" of a gaming Read More...
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Canis Canem Edit a.k.a. Bully

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:12 PM by mattmcspirit
This morning, I was listening to the radio on the way to work and on came the news report - who was in the headlines again? Our good friends 'Rockstar', creators of the Grand Theft Auto series, Manhunt, and more recently Table Tennis (Ping-Pong to me Read More...
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Someone's pimp'd the Vista Team Blog!

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:56 PM by mattmcspirit
Just over a week ago, I spent a good 39 minutes sprucing up my blog, with a nice new headline image, a new background colour, and I even had to re-align some of the text, but those geezers over at the Windows Vista Team Blog have only gone and made their Read More...
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Forget the USBCell...this one's a Life Saver

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:19 AM by mattmcspirit
A few weeks back, the gaffer blogged about USBCell's - essentially AA batteries that are charged by plugging them into a USB slot. Now Steve has gone and ordered some, and I believe they arrived a while back, but, what do I say to that? Well, I take your Read More...
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Defragmenting Vista....

Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:12 PM by mattmcspirit
Following up on my post the other day, about partitioning and disk management in Vista , so I thought I'd build on that by revealing a little tool that a colleague has found, that you may find useful. Now, before you fly off the handle, judging by the Read More...
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Centro on TAP...

Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:43 PM by mattmcspirit
As we all know, there is a large number of products out there that serve small businesses, and large enterprises, but often lost in the middle is the mid-size business, with 25-500 PCs and usually just a few IT staff to keep all aspects of the business Read More...
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Partitioning Vista...

Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:30 PM by mattmcspirit
Say you've got a nice new machine, with a 100gb hard disk, efficiently running Windows XP, but what if, for one reason or another, you want to split that hard disk into multiple partitions. What are some of the reasons you would want to create multiple Read More...
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Confused by BitLocker?

Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:22 PM by mattmcspirit
(Click image to Enlarge!) If you are confused by this new term, BitLocker, well, don't worry, because you are not alone. In a nutshell, BitLocker is a new data encryption technology that is built into both the Enterprise and Ultimate versions of Vista, Read More...
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Windows Vista Demo's

Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:40 PM by mattmcspirit
About a week ago, I stumbled upon this post from David Overton , providing details of Windows Vista Demo's that are available on t'internet. They originate from the Windows Vista Demo site , and have been organised nicely, into 5 categories: Getting Started Read More...
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Vista and Office 2007 - Upcoming Events (UK)

Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:40 PM by mattmcspirit
Envisioning Session (Vista & Office 2007) This half day session is to help ISV's better understand the positive impact Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office System can make on their solutions. Who: These sessions are for Business Decision Makers Read More...
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MS CPU's, 100GB Hard Disks and the Media Center Extender...

Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:15 AM by mattmcspirit
I read a couple of interesting announcements yesterday, both around the Xbox 360. The first, over on GameDaily Biz , talks about the fact that, as we know, Microsoft is already working away on the next version of the Xbox, but also that the chip that Read More...
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Virtual Labs - Exchange, Vista and Office...

Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 5:14 PM by mattmcspirit
So, you've heard about this three-headed beast on the horizon, which really is going to change the way we work, but you haven't had the chance to install it, don't have any spare hardware to test it on, or, you just don't want to install it yet. What Read More...
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Small Business? Is your Office Live?

Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 11:28 AM by mattmcspirit
Now, if you're anything like me, from time to time you may find it a little difficult to figure out what is going on with all these 'Live' products, how they differ from the non-Live products, a-la Office 2003 / 2007 and how also, they differ from what Read More...
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Hot Stuff! - Add-Ons for Internet Explorer...

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:58 PM by mattmcspirit
So, you've just heard that Internet Explorer 7 is available for a free download, right here, right now . But then what? What else can you do with it, apart from the cool stuff that you get right out of the box? Well, check out this little goldmine, over Read More...
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Yesterday: It's Coming. Today: It's Here!!!

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:32 PM by mattmcspirit
That's right, Internet Explorer 7 was coming quicker than I thought! It's available now for download ! Unfortunately at present, the download is only available in English, but other languages will be available soon. As I mentioned a few days ago , we Read More...
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Running Virtual Server on Vista

Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:02 PM by mattmcspirit
Here at Microsoft, there are regular questions flying around about the settings needed to run Virtual Server on Vista. Many people think they have set it up correctly, only to be presented with problems such as not being able to load the admin page etc. Read More...
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IT Pro? Got Virtualisation Skills?

Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:26 PM by mattmcspirit
If you are an IT Pro, and you are interested in the kind of skills needed for Virtualisation, then there is a great article over at SearchServerVirtualisation.com , which covers just that. Now, anyone from a Virtualisation background will understand the Read More...
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Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack for Software Assurance

Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:02 PM by mattmcspirit
The guys over at the Windows Vista Team Blog have made an announcement today, which relates to some of the acquisitions we have made over the last few months, such as Softricity, Winternals, DesktopStandard, and AssetMetrix. But, you may be thinking, Read More...
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Register now for Business Evolution 2006...

Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:13 PM by mattmcspirit
Are you ready for Microsoft's biggest launch ever? The combined launch of Windows Vista, 2007 Microsoft Office system and Exchange Server 2007 is the biggest single investment Microsoft has ever made. It's also the biggest business opportunity we've ever Read More...
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It's coming....IE7 I mean!

Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:49 PM by mattmcspirit
I was reading Mr Overton's blog a week or so ago, and found a great post about the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7. Did you know that the final release of IE7 is going to be available this month to download? Did you also know that, after a few Read More...
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Windows Vista Tips 'n' Tricks

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:04 PM by mattmcspirit
Now this is a site that I have just stumbled on, and I'm not sure how many people out there know about it, so I thought I'd take the chance to share it with you! So, where is it and what is there? Well, the site is over at http://www.windowsvistatnt.com/ Read More...
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A daily dose of Vista...

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:45 PM by mattmcspirit
There has been quite abit of buzz around Vista today, so rather than bombard you with many many posts, I thought it would be a better idea to consolidate the whole lot into one, easy to digest, click-if-you're-interested post. Security Rivals Receive Read More...
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We do Event Podcasts!

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:56 AM by mattmcspirit
I know - crazy hey! But we do! Listen to Microsoft webcasts and media content whenever and wherever you want. You can stream or download these audio podcasts on your favorite podcast software or mobile device, and quickly and easily access content with Read More...
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Time to embrace Virtualisation?

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:35 AM by mattmcspirit
Now we all know one of the key benefits of virtualisation is the consolidation of hardware, or, put another way, increasing the utilisation of your hardware. Lets be honest, hardware isn't cheap right? Sure, you get more bang for your buck than you did Read More...
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Microsoft UK Events - RSS Feeds!

Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 11:47 PM by mattmcspirit
Am I good to you? I think so too! James has found a load of events that are taking place in the UK, including events on Vista, Exchange, SQL and Virtualisation, so I thought I'd take it one step further to not only provide you with the information now, Read More...
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Futures made of Virtual PC...

Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 2:12 PM by mattmcspirit
Apologies for the shameless plug of a Jamiroquai hit of yesteryear, but I thought it was an ideal way to talk about the fact that Virtual PC 2007 Beta is here, and it's available for you to download! What are you waiting for?? Without further adoo, here Read More...
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Vista RC2 Software Compatibility List

Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:22 PM by mattmcspirit
I saw this post over at David Overton's blog , which provided a link to the Vista RC1 Software Compatibility List, however, after following the link, I found that there was in fact a Vista RC2 Software Compatibility List, so, for your viewing pleasure, Read More...
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Blinkx and you'll miss it!

Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:44 AM by mattmcspirit
Now, you may (or may not!) have heard about a certain $1.65billion deal uniting a certain search company (OK, among other things...) and a certain video site, but, that isn't the only video related deal that has taken place over the last few days. " On Read More...
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Sync up with Windows Mobile Device Center

Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 4:22 PM by mattmcspirit
To coincide nicely with the release of Vista RC2 just the other day, Microsoft has released the 3rd beta of the Windows Mobile Device Center, so, for all you Vista users, who have a Windows Mobile device, either 2003 or WM5, get on over to the download Read More...
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ZuneUpdate

Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 10:23 AM by mattmcspirit
So, what’s happened since I last posted about Zune? A hell of a lot, so it’s about time I caught up, right! Well, what do we know so far? It’s being built by Toshiba, it will come, initially, with a 30Gb capacity, and will have a number of cool, and useful Read More...
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Could I interest you in Vista 5744 a.k.a RC2?

Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 3:13 AM by mattmcspirit
*** Update 11/10/2006 *** - Unfortunately, Vista 5744 downloads for the Customer Preview Program (CPP) have now closed and the links are no longer active. We were bowled over by your response to RC2 -- in fact, we hit our download target (200K+) within Read More...
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Windows Experience Index - 4.2 - on a laptop!

Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:51 PM by mattmcspirit
Can you beat this? An index score of 4.2 on a laptop!!! Do you to know which laptop I used to achieve this score? Well, here you are... Say hello to the Alienware Aurora m9700 - quoted as being the Ultimate Gaming Notebook, with 1gb of graphics, and it Read More...
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Connecting Customers with Partners...

Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:57 PM by mattmcspirit
I've been meaning to mention this for a while now, so here it is! In a nutshell, the Microsoft UK Partner team has been hard at work on 2 incredibly useful tools, with one being aimed at UK Partners, and another being aimed at potential customers, who Read More...
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Who’s Carmine again?

Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 10:24 PM by mattmcspirit
Now you may or may not have just read a post I wrote about Window Server Virtualisation, which detailed what is on the horizon in the Virtualisation space from Microsoft, what this crazy term ‘Hypervisor' means, and what the benefits it can bring to your Read More...
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Hypervisor? Say what?

Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 9:48 AM by mattmcspirit
Now, with Windows Server Virtualisation just around the corner, (Beta 1 is scheduled for the end of this year) a few of you may be wondering what the main differences are going to be between this, next generation virtualisation , and what is currently Read More...
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