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XP SP3 in the public domain

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:22 PM by mattmcspirit
XP SP3 has been released into the public domain after a short delay.  Get all the info, and the updates themselves, by following this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/0a5b9b10-17e3-40d9-8d3c-0077c953a761.aspx There's also an interesting Read More...
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Virtualisation, on mobile phones?

Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:28 AM by mattmcspirit
Some people think so! http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080421_235517.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories It's an interesting read, but whether it takes off or not, who knows.  I'd love a Hyper-V enabled Read More...
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Too good not to share... :-)

Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 1:12 PM by mattmcspirit
If you've never watched 'Who's Line is it Anyway?', you're missing out... This is a classic :-) Enjoy the weekend :-) Read More...
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I'm number 1 in the World at Assassin's Creed!

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:21 PM by mattmcspirit
Well, me and 10,191 other people, but that's not the point :-) See more here, http://profile.mygamercard.net/mattmcspirit and feel free to add me as a friend if you want a game of something!  My current game of choice is Rockstar Table Tennis! Read More...
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Energy Saving Search? Captain Planet would be proud...

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:14 PM by mattmcspirit
  Credit where it's due: "Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; Read More...
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Long time no see...

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:57 AM by mattmcspirit
It's been a while, and I'm sorry.  Things have been busy, what with the launch of Windows Server 2008 round the corner, and the Microsoft Virtualisation steam train slowly building up momentum, things are getting really exciting, busy, but exciting! Read More...
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The blogging bug...

Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 11:15 AM by mattmcspirit
It was quite a strange day yesterday - not strange in a bad way, not at all. It started with an email from David, at TranquilPC. He'd found, via my blog, that James and I were putting on another set of Vista: After Hours events at the end of September. Read More...
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Open XML: I SO need your support ;-)

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:01 PM by mattmcspirit
Interoperability, Choice and Open XML. Over the past year, Microsoft has done a hell of a lot to try and ensure that our products inter-operate with other products, not necessarily produced by Microsoft, out of the box, without the need for the user to Read More...
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Vista even makes me laugh...

Posted Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:18 AM by mattmcspirit
Now, as you'll probably have guessed, I love Vista, and it genuinely has changed the way I work, for the better, but every so often it does something which makes me laugh, and although this happened to a colleague of mine, and not me, I thought I'd share Read More...
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Where did the last fortnight go?

Posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 6:22 PM by mattmcspirit
Firstly, an apology - my posting frequency has dropped dramatically over the last 2 weeks, and with only 3 posts since the start of November, I thought it was time to get cracking again! Secondly, an explanation of why I haven't been posting! Well, having 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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$2.5 billion and growing...

Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 4:29 PM by mattmcspirit
Now there are many people out there who don't like Microsoft, for a variety of different reasons, which I'm not going to go into here - after all, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but, no matter how positive or negative your opinion is, there is no Read More...
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Hello and Welcome!

Posted Saturday, June 17, 2006 3:41 PM by mattmcspirit
Hey – Welcome to my shiny new blog! My name is Matt McSpirit, and I am a Partner Technology Specialist here at Microsoft in the UK. I’ve worked at Microsoft for the last 6 months, and during my time I’ve been introduced to many new areas of technology, Read More...
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