Right so just a quickie to say I know the number of posts on HPC has been slow and I am absolutely aware of it! I have been working on some really cool documents from IBM, HP and Dell which will give their views and definitions of HPC as well as what they see as their uniques in the market. Just as I was about to post on them all they managed to rearrange their websites so that you wouldnt all be able to take advantage and send them to your customers etc

So stay tuned - they are on their way with a little help from my US friends!

Enjoy!

We have just announced a great set of webcasts for partner and customers looking to find out how to do the following:

• Plan and Deploy Search across the Enterprise
• Install and configure Microsoft Search Solutions
• Extend the search capabilities of Microsoft Search Solutions

Some really great work from the US team as under each of these banners there is a trio of detailed webcasts planned. I have put the full detail below:

∙ Plan and deploy search across the enterprise

- Webcast 1: Microsoft Search Solutions for the Enterprise – Technical Overview (14th Feb)

                - Webcast 2: Microsoft Search Solutions for the Enterprise – Security, Performance and Compliance Considerations (21st Feb)

                - Webcast 3: Planning for and Deploying Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (28th feb)

∙ Install and configure Microsoft search solutions

                - Webcast 4: Installing and configuring Desktop Search in the Enterprise (7th March)

                - Webcast 5: Installing and configuring basic search with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for Search 2007 (Search-only SKU) (14th March)

                - Webcast 6: Installing and configuring search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (21st March)

∙ Extend  the search capabilities of Microsoft search solutions

                - Extending search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Exposing line-of-business data with the Business Data Catalog (28th March)

                - Extending search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Exposing data sources using the SharePoint Protocol Handler architecture (4th April)

Sign up now and register your place on the links above!

Enjoy!

So very cool!

So today Bill Gates helped with the consumer launch of Vista at the British Library. One of the amazing applications he demonstrated under an hour ago was the turning pages application created by Armadillo Systems.

So get your hands on this fantastic application and see for yourself Leonardi da Vinci's work - turn the pages yourself and get up close and personal to some of the most fantastic works in history! Try it for yourself at the British Library site here:

http://www.bl.uk/ttp2/ttp1.html

For more on the application and how it was built by Armadillo Systems check out the following:

http://www.turningthepages.com/

Seriously cool web 2.0 applications!

Enjoy!

Redfin (a Seattle company - http://www.redfin.com) just switched their AJAX search site over to use the Virtual Earth platform.  Not only is that cool, but they did a very nice write up of it compared to Google’s mapping software which they previously used - check out more here:

http://blog.redfin.com/blog/redfin/2007/01/redfin_...

Great site and really nice to see the differences charted by a customer who has used both, they commented as follows:

In the end the race was close as the platforms are very similar in many respects, but Microsoft Virtual Earth was the best fit for our requirements. The table below shows how they compare: http://blog.redfin.com/blog/redfin/2007/01/redfin_...

This post also caught my eye as a cool piece of work using IM etc: http://blog.redfin.com/blog/redfin/2007/01/seattle...

Enjoy!