Malcolm Bullock - Optimising Infrastructure for business benefit : Vista

Concerned by Sinowal?

mbullock — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:50:06 GMT

Like me you may have read on the BBC's web site today about a ' Trojan virus steals banking info ' ....now I normally pass these articles by knowing the truth BUT I'm aware that to some they will take this as 'read' and worry. So here's the background....(read more)

Out of Band Security Bulletin released

mbullock — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:35:10 GMT

Folks, just in case you've not picked this up elsewhere you should know that we have released an out of band security update . As you know this isn't usual and therefore you should carefully review the information here . It's worth noting that for Windows...(read more)

Watch This: Windows Vista Performance…under the hood

mbullock — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:16:15 GMT

Vista performance is something that I often discuss with customers that I meet. Therefore, let me recommend good use of one hour and suggest that you watch this webcast from the Springboard series of Vista Resources. Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable...(read more)

Free Gartner reports on Vista and MDOP

mbullock — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:54:15 GMT

The reports will be here until 12th March 2009 Quantifying the Value of Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol4/article6/article6.html How to Quantify the Value of Software Assurance for Windows Client...(read more)

Be loud and proud – I’m a PC!!

mbullock — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:14:31 GMT

so the ad campaign has really started now. As reported yesterday the New York Times has some good quality analysis on the campaign – and I’ve read some low quality analysis…. But this is the trust of it – I’m a PC, there’s a BILLION others like me, and...(read more)

Roll-up, come get your Microsoft Ads…

mbullock — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:28:48 GMT

So Steve has the scoop here , and apparently (I’m offline right now) the New York Times has the scoop. I’m at a Microsoft internal conference in Florida this week and at lunchtime we had a preview of some Windows 7 Enterprise features (cool :) ), and...(read more)

Vista Security Saves me….

mbullock — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:14:51 GMT

OK so I knew that this was Malware – AND I executed it on purpose to see which security system on my machine would pick it up, or I knew I faced a rebuild! Look what happened – I opened the e-mail just like my mother might do, double clicked on the attachment...(read more)

The Optimised Desktop - What and how?

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:48:14 GMT

You will have probably heard Microsoft talking about our Dynamic IT vision, especially if you've seen anything of the Virtualisation launch this week . An essential ingredient of this is the Optimised Desktop, and this is something that I often discuss...(read more)

Businesses warned not to skip Vista - from CIO.com

mbullock — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:23:36 GMT

For some reason this post never got published and was sitting in my 'drafts' folder in Live Writer . Oh well, it's still more than a current topic of conversation. Hope this helps... This article has just been brought to my attention - Businesses...(read more)

Windows Vista and Office Deployment Days Slides

mbullock — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:55:42 GMT

Hi, Over the last two weeks I've had the pleasure of 'tail-ending' the keynote talks at two Windows Vista and Office 2007 deployment days. I'll follow this post with an overview of what I said about Windows Vista, and deploying it, but I here I am posting...(read more)

Windows Vista - one year on...

mbullock — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:34:17 GMT

I came across this new presentations covering windows Vista post one year recently. I don't get asked to talk much on Vista, presumably you are all making you owns minds up to deploy now (or not as the case may-be!). Anyhow, whilst I am more than willing...(read more)

Vista Power Savings help you save costs

mbullock — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:00:53 GMT

A new report has recently been published demonstrating the hard savings available from Windows Vista's Power Saving functionality. If your company has hard C02 reduction targets, or you would like to tell your management that you can save them $11 per...(read more)

Vista Vulnerability report published for Year 1

mbullock — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:56:36 GMT

Folks, I thought you might be interested in this report that has just been issued compiling the first year's worth of security vulnerability's found in Windows Vista, and comparing Windows XP and non-Microsoft OS's first year vulnerabilities. The...(read more)