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SharePoint Seattle Conference - UK Party Information Here!

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:41 PM by Mike P
Roll up Roll Up all UK attendees of the Seattle SharePoint conference - we have confirmed the venue and timing for the UK soiree - an evening of sophisticated discussion, sporting activity and of course fine food and refreshment! Date: Monday 3rd March Read More...
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New Microsoft Action Pack - details here!

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:44 AM by Mike P
24,000 of our 34,000 Registered Partners currently subscribe to Action Pack, our quarterly toolkits of software and sales and marketing materials. These are created to help our partners stay competitive, meet their sales goals and grow their business. Read More...
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Opportunity Of a Lifetime - Play at Wembley...?

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:55 PM by Mike P
Quick post - do you fancy a dream come true by playing on the hallowed turf at Wembley? We had a channel team last year and raised over £59,000 for the Wooden Spoon Charity. Fancy taking part then....send a mail to Donna Chubb @ i-dchubb@microsoft.com Read More...
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The Future of Web Search

Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:16 AM by Mike P
A very simple post here, amazing work from the Microsoft Live Labs team - simple and really cool graphics using Silverlight. I love the following: The Halo skin (okay so I am a sucker!) The graphics around the different types of content search The accuracy Read More...
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Rumourmill...Microsoft to buy Yahoo?

Posted Friday, May 04, 2007 5:47 PM by Mike P
Seen some press reports about Microsoft potentially buying Yahoo.. BBC Yahoo shares up on Microsoft talk Associated Press: http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=AP&Date=20070504&ID=6846679&Symbol=YHOO Reuters article: http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=OBR&Date=20070504&ID=6846019&Symbol=YHOO Read More...
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So what is the Live Maps response...

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:59 PM by Mike P
So I guess I thought I would check what Live Maps did and happily here's the result: http://maps.live.com/?q=london%20to%20san%20francisco&mkt=en-GB&FORM=BDRE Phew! Read More...
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London to San Fran with Google maps...

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:54 PM by Mike P
This made me smile, doubtless there are similar 2.0 errors in Live Maps: http://tinyurl.com/2yqwz5 Step 37 is a cracker: Lol :-) Read More...
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Quick apology...

Posted Sunday, February 25, 2007 5:11 PM by Mike P
Righty ho, so not being the most technical person in the world I have been trying out a few different blog writers/posting apps to varying success. My favorite was Live Writer until I realised that it does sometimes cut off URLs hence the apology to you Read More...
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Scottish Innovation at it's best....so inspiring to spend some time in Glasgow and Edinburgh...learnings we can take from Google to bespoke system builders to new business start ups!

Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:48 PM by Mike P
Right so get yourself a digestive biccie and a nice cup of cocoa as I wax lyrical on some time in the Lowlands of Scotland. For those of you from an international bent, this is where I was for the last few days: http://maps.live.com/?q=edinburgh&mkt=en-gb&FORM=L... Read More...
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Microsoft gives to charity every time you search - save this link and send to your friends!

Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:54 PM by Mike P
Give to nine million.org with every search. Each time you search here, Microsoft will contribute to nine million.org , a UN agency-led campaign providing education and sports programs for the nine million refugee youth around the world. http://click4thecause.live.com/Search/Charity/Default.aspx Read More...
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Off on hols - be back at the end of Jan...excuse the radio silence!

Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:30 AM by Mike P
Just a quick note to say I am off on hols and will be back at the end of Jan.. Got plenty to discuss - if you are heading through Heathrow and are off to Hong Kong or Dubai then check out the new digital passport trial - seriously cool, guess who is number Read More...
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Want a great update on what is in Vista - great review and update from the BBC..!

Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:40 PM by Mike P
Liked this view on the new bits in Vista from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6160327.stm Check out this section: and of course this bit: but I really like this: Have to say the files and folders search is sooooo nice – makes you feel like Read More...
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