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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Retail Pro Insight</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/vicmiles/default.aspx</link><description>Insights from Vic Miles on Microsoft Retail Technology</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Bridging the gap – the strategy of enabling business with technology</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/vicmiles/archive/2009/04/10/bridging-the-gap-the-strategy-of-enabling-business-with-technology.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:08:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3224981</guid><dc:creator>vicmiles</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/vicmiles/comments/3224981.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/vicmiles/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3224981</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;This is my first entry into the blogging space.&amp;nbsp; I recognize that my perspective on technology evolves along with technology.&amp;nbsp; I hope to get feedback from readers to create a shared industry perspective.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;My role at Microsoft allows me to develop and share that perspective with retail business professionals as well as IT professionals around the world.&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;With this blog I will share what I feel are compelling topics related to driving retail business processes with a focus on technology.&amp;nbsp; I intend to build on the foundational belief that &lt;B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"&gt;technology enables business&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Blog entries will be about the &lt;B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"&gt;strategy&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt; involved in&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt; bridging the gap between innovation and implementation&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;My focus will be on Microsoft solutions and partners that build on Microsoft technologies.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Strategic initiatives often involve course corrections which can lead to further innovation in current products.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;I hope that retail professionals will find value from my perspective and share their own.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Together we can move the retail industry forward on many fronts.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3224981" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/vicmiles/archive/tags/Retail+Strategy/default.aspx">Retail Strategy</category></item><item><title>Tech Ed to feature Windows Embedded POSReady deployment</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/vicmiles/archive/2009/04/10/tech-ed-to-feature-windows-embedded-posready-deployment.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:59:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3224970</guid><dc:creator>vicmiles</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/vicmiles/comments/3224970.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/vicmiles/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3224970</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;The retail team will be at Tech Ed North America 2009.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;We are&amp;nbsp;preparing to deliver solution guidance for IT Pros that plan deployment of Point of Service systems.&amp;nbsp; Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 is recently released and offers features and benefits to ease deployment to the retail environment.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Come see how the Microsoft retail infrastructure can improve the retail POS environment.&amp;nbsp; We will present best practices and live demonstrations of POSReady 2009 in action!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A title="Tech Ed North America 2009" href="http://www.msteched.com/teched/event.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.msteched.com/teched/event.aspx"&gt;Click here for info.&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; Register today to join us in L.A.&lt;/P&gt;
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