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Offtopic - Humour and Irony - Laser ice levelling - nice!

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 3:55 PM by Mike P
Have to love the technology used to level the runway in Antarctica for the first regular link down there from Oz.....cannot help thinking about the irony of landing a plane on the ice in order to study the environment....lol Good weekend all! Read More...
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Fast plan to get into High End Enterprise Search...!

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 4:38 PM by Mike P
Here are some more stories all around the FAST announcement yesterday - you have to love the manner in which the story is reported differently in the different media - Hats off to the IHT for using a picture of Bill Gates with Slash from Guns 'n' Roses Read More...
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Merry Christmas....yo ho ho greetings from all at Microsoft!

Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:47 PM by Mike P
Dear Friend & Business Partner, I would like to thank you for all your hard work and passion in 2007 – the SharePoint business has seen tremendous growth in the last year at Microsoft and this can be attributed to you our loyal partners. From knowing Read More...
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Human 2.0: Windows Compute Human Server...early product team discussions..

Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 4:45 PM by Mike P
So as you will have seen last week and will see again tomorrow we have been out and about with the Partner TV video camera taking shots from the product teams when we manage to catch them! Here is a fascinating video clip of some early work we have planned Read More...
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Great ballmer video on Google and joining Microsoft

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 7:28 PM by Mike P
Nice refreshing video here showing you a relaxed Steve and his views on Google as well as his joining process into Microsoft: Ballmer: Google's growth strategy is 'insane' Kind of cool and candid - hope you all have a great weekend! Enjoy! Read More...
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Humour from Oz: Hmmm to Google or to LiveSearch...that is the question :-)

Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 9:41 AM by Mike P
One of my colleagues Nick over in Oz sent this post over to me which made me smile: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2007/02/21/google-versus-live-search.aspx Nick fed us this vital bit of context as apparently the chap playing the tv presenter Read More...
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HPC Through the Ages - Great funny Video for Friday viewing...check it out..

Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 9:40 AM by Mike P
So you all probably know that we dream up these videos showing development of software over the years and then what happens when Microsoft enters the market – this one is ever so slightly biased in our direction rather surprisingly J SC06 or Bust With Read More...
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Had me crying with laughter...race horses, flocks of chickens and harnessing huskies :-)

Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:16 PM by Mike P
Righty ho, so about a month ago a new product manager started in Microsoft UK called Dr. Michael Newberry – he’s a fantastic Australian and (being wary that there are more than a few Aussies reading this blog) I am looking forward hugely to the Ashes Read More...
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Free Champagne....to the winner of this simple competition..!

Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:10 PM by Mike P
Right so the winner is the person who does the following: 1. Reads my previous blog on nags, chucks and huskies: Had me crying with laughter...race horses, flocks of chickens and harnessing huskies :-) 2. Posts a comment on this blog with the best analogy Read More...
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