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Google Apps: Commentary and Discussion....check out this press release!!

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:53 PM by Mike P
Some of you may have seen this in the press and the Blogosphere recently, one of Microsofts Gold Partners in the US released a press release poking a little fun at some of the more serious business issues surrounding Business Apps hosted on the web. http://www.intermedia.net/about-us/news/2006/google-apps.asp Read More...
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Opinion Piece: Extending the Useful Economic Life of PCs...power to the user with HPC - the business case reviewed!

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:30 PM by Mike P
Want to extend the useful economic life of your PC - get a compute cluster HPC server... With many new technologies people rave about the technology but forget the business case that drives compelling event and the purchase - this post looks at recent Read More...
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Offtopic Sunday humour: Fiat put Escape and Windows Keys on Steering Wheels.. :-)

Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 4:43 PM by Mike P
So as an follow up to the blog I did a few weeks back on F1 use of MS technology (Offtopic Friday humour... http://blogs.technet.com/mikep/archive/2006/08/11/446043.aspx ), check out the very cool steering wheel from Fiat as shown on Jason Langridge's Read More...
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PlayStation 3 tackles world ills...now lets imagine clustered XBOX 360's....!

Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 6:34 PM by Mike P
Anyone fancy a little weekend work linking a few XBOX 360's together...saw this fabulously inspirational story on the BBC Technology site today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5287254.stm Hmmm could we do HPC clusters on a networked set of 360's.....? Read More...
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Off Topic: Scoble and Eric Sink on: How to get people talking about your product...

Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 5:01 PM by Mike P
I was browing Robert Scoble's blog and caught this link to a great reference of 'How to get people talking about your product' - now this got me thinking around the whole process fo adoption and how many times do i hear businesses targeting customers Read More...
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Microsoft HPC / CCS - the best technical support and dev links ever...?!

Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 4:28 PM by Mike P
Ah yes so here we are in the UK just about to start a 3 day bank holiday weekend and here's me all concerned that you arent going to have enough to keep you busy. Yep your Zune hasnt arrived yet, your XBOX 360 is having a rest so I have collated some Read More...
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Quick Poll: Feedback on splitting the blogs between HPC and Search - ??

Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:08 PM by Mike P
Would you prefer two blogs split into HPC and Search or keep it as it is? Feedback gratefully received! Read More...
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Opinion Piece: Search and the next frontier..in tandem with HPC...why finding information is absolutely totally useless to a business!

Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:09 PM by Mike P
Righty ho, so it's a beautiful thing to be able to find the people and information you need within your business, but I don't need to simply FIND information. This may seem as a shock to you, but finding information is totally useless to me and or the Read More...
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"It's the bleeding edge," said InterKnowlogy CEO Tim Huckaby, "but the next version of SharePoint is so good it's worth the pain."

Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:56 AM by Mike P
So some of you may have seen this link from CRN - now this is where I absolutely love working for this company, whereby our software is spoken about in a manner that immediately brings it to life, and lets you know the impact we can have in society. Here Read More...
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Microsoft search wants to pick your brain...and then some!

Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 2:00 PM by Mike P
So you have all been in the same situation before - you sit listening to a great presentation - stunning stage work - a slick demo - and a powerful speaker that makes you want to jump up and just 'buy one'. But there is something in your mind that just Read More...
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iFilters - how to write as well as how to use in managed code!

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 1:05 PM by Mike P
So we have had some questions from partners wanting to understand how to write iFilters for SharePoint etc James Akrigg our Partner Technical Specialist for Search has found the following handy links: Using iFilters to get the text from file formats so Read More...
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Customizing SPS and Beta of MSN Search....

Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:06 PM by Mike P
So was browing the web this evening and found these documents on customizing search for SPS 2003 - great for those 2003 customers and great to get those discussions going for when Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS for short) comes out in the Read More...
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F1 Visit for UK Partners & Search Launch for AdCentre

Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:37 PM by Mike P
So had a fantastic day today over at Williams F1 - Yes the Formula 1 racing team! http://www.rbswilliamsf1conferences.com/ The great news is if you are a UK Partner you will be able to get yourself an invite there too for our UK Partner days in just a Read More...
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Microsoft UK Managing Director - video live on TechNet

Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:33 PM by Mike P
There is a new series of 'Talking Microsoft' articles - in resume a selection of videos posted about the UK Business. The first in the series is our UK Managing Director Gordon Frazer: http://blogs.technet.com/talkingmsft/ see the video here! Standby Read More...
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The Business Online Article: Microsoft and Google slug it out for control of enterprise Search

Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 8:29 PM by Mike P
There have been a few articles in the press with different pundits commenting on differing company strategies for Search. This one from 'The Business Online' has commentary from our COO Kevin Turner on our enterprise business search strategy as well as Read More...
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Offtopic Friday humour...More on the Automotive Industry..!

Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 4:52 PM by Mike P
So I am sure some of you have seen the Automotive announcements around Formula 1 that I have to say are to the best of my knowledge not confirmed yet. However the rumour is that Bridgestone and Microsoft have been granted exclusive contracts to be the Read More...
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Auto industry revs up high-performance computing!!

Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 4:39 PM by Mike P
So this week there have been a few stories in the press around MS in the automotive industry and as it's Friday afternoon I thought I would share them both you all as well as the hilarious stories happening around the latter - typical Microsoft banter Read More...
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Want to know the history of SuperComputing...MS Research article with the lot!!

Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 4:12 PM by Mike P
Looking around for all of the stories around HPC has brought me to this site which has the history and evolution of SuperComputing all in a simple page of A4. Gordon Bell from Microsoft Research has written it all up here, the top bits have to include: Read More...
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Microsoft shows off improved search - the user dimension..

Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:05 PM by Mike P
Righty ho, so just seen a new story around some of the great Search technology coming out of Microsoft Research if you've not been there yet you can get insights into all the latest Microsoft Research projects here: http://research.microsoft.com/ Be careful Read More...
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Partners using Microsoft CCS - The ISV solutions..

Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:33 PM by Mike P
Tonight I want to share with you the partners who will be using CCS as one of their platforms of choice moving forward this year. The ISVs will be critical to Microsofts success around HPC and with the CCS product and more importantly, IMHO will be the Read More...
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High Performance Computing...for the masses...

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:41 PM by Mike P
Right so if I am not careful I will natter all about Search and not do justice to probably one of the areas where I think Microsoft can have a huge impact over the next 18 months - notably High Performance Computing. Now, many of you might say that MS Read More...
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Opinions sought...French Government to enter the Search Market...what do you all reckon?

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:53 PM by Mike P
So this story has been getting a bit of news in the press and driving quite a bit of traffic on some of the sites I watch. The main story can be viewed here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115464222236026179.html?mod=hps_us_at_glance_opinion What do Read More...
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Link to Microsoft jumpstart for Search

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:29 PM by Mike P
Okay so I know I said in the intro that I would not just throw links at you but to be honest sometimes it is useful. This is a good one to start with: https://www.jumpstartmssearch.com This is the sign up page for those partners who wish to learn about Read More...
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Introduction..

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:20 PM by Mike P
So this is a new blog focussing on two hot areas for Microsoft this year notably: Search and High Performance Computing. The target audience will be channel partners interested in engaging with Microsoft and learning more on where they can get resources Read More...
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