As a sideline from my usual news I thought I’d mention about an event I recently had the opportunity to get involved in. It was a fund raising event that was organised by a friend of mine Mr Simon Drakeley that was arranged to raise money for a charity...

I’ve just spent this afternoon catching up on a few other blogs and I’ve discovered that I’m famous. Darren Strange, the Product Manager of Office 2007 in the UK has put a video clip up on his blog that he took at DevCon in London. You can see a number...

There is a interesting article about competition from Linux on Small Business Server 2003 R2 published on CRN about the refocus of Microsoft and Linux Rivals on SMB Servers. http://www.crn.com/sections/software/software.jhtml?articleId=189501056...

The Inquirer has written an interesting article discussing the pros and cons of Microsoft Word 2007. It highlights some fascinating usability problems that experienced ‘Word’ enthusiast are having with the new user interface, the shortcut keys and the...

The Mini Bar, formerly known as the ‘floatie’ (luckily that got changed) is a new solution to combat the irritating command loops involved in changing simple effects in text documents like font size, type face, font colour etc. In order to view...