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June 2006 - Posts

Friday Funny: TBS's Humour Study and Cannes Lions
Tim McTigue sent these to me. Something lighthearted for the weekend! Enjoy! http://www.tbshumorstudy.com/main.html http://www.canneslions.com/winners_site/cyber/win_2_1.htm Read More...
Bill Gates transitions to a new role
It had to happen. Bill Gates was eventually going to leave and in an internal company mail he outlined his career progression over the next couple of years. By mid 2008 he will move to a part time role within Microsoft, instead focusing on his foundation, Read More...
Ridiculous statements of platform security
Im reading my usual online newsletters and I come across this one. Im reading and and its laughable! To make statements like this saying that Open Source is "inherently" more secure is a misleading statement that needs to be backed up with fact and the Read More...
TechEd USA: Police eating donuts? Surely not!
This morning as I was waiting to catch the shuttle bus to the conference I noticed a number of Boston Police officers having a chat next to their car. Now in Australia this would never ever happen for two reasons: 1. There isnt this many Police...well Read More...
SBSDiva....not happy!
Susan Bradley isn't happy . Shes the SBS Diva and Im sitting right next to her right now. She's found an inaccuracy in our patch release today where we state that RRAS isnt running by default on Windows Servers. She insists it is on SBS boxes...! Read More...
TechEd USA: Day 3
Went to an awesome session today by Steve Riley . It was Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies and covered everything you need to know about Vista in security protection changes. Of course he will be doing it again at TechEd Australia and NZ! Heres Read More...
TechEd USA: Day 2: BitLocker and catching up with folk!
Went to a BitLocker session today. Was a very good session with lots of details on the deployment. There was a bit of stuff I did know like the fact that it needs two partitions minimum. One is for the Active system partition that runs the boot loader Read More...
TechEd Boston: We've arrived!
Well as part of my TechEd AU and NZ responsibilities Im here at TechEd in Boston trying to recruit some extra speakers and liaise with them on content etc. The city is ablaze with banners everywhere! Monique got in on the act aswell and posed for a photo! Read More...
Want a copy of Vista Beta 2?
Ive had this question a stack of times now...how can I get a copy of Beta 2? If you were at Innovation 2006 you would have got one....but it sold out so we are still making them available to people. Go to: www.microsoft.com.au/innovation And register Read More...
TechEd AU and NZ 2006: Close to done!
OK..theres been lots of people asking about what TechEd AU and NZ will feature as an agenda. I think its important that at this time we show you exactly where we're up to! Theres a couple of tracks that still arent quite finished yet - but are fairly Read More...
TechEd 2006 AU: First look at the backpack!!
So here it is...the TechEd bag for Australia. And finally a nice quality one!! You can click on it and see the bigger version! BTW - if you have any direct questions about the tracks that youre seeing on my blog please contact each track owner individually Read More...
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