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I’m at the Microsoft MVP Summit this week, which means that there are a lot of things I won’t be able to share due to all sorts of non-disclosure agreements, lawyers, etc. However, there may be some cool non-NDA stuff that I’ll be able...
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I’m technically a child of the 80s, but I can relate to many of the things in this video. Damn you, Microsoft, for making me get all teary-eyed, especially at all of the old school computer references. Here… maybe some of you will get all...
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My MVP award was renewed for another year today. Thank you to Microsoft for bestowing the honour for the fifth year and thank you to all of the people who’ve helped me gain this award by posting questions, reading my blogs, listening to talks etc. Read...
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Recently, I wanted to manage my billing options, as I had an invalid credit card tied to my Zune and XBOX Live account. Unfortunately, I had the experience of meeting the Microsoft Billing and Account Management site. This is unfortunate, as it is a site...
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If you haven’t already heard there are new toys available Windows 8 beta is available from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/download Windows Server 8 beta is available from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/v8-default...
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The System Center family of products is getting a big make over in the 2012 release. The team blogs have just been rebranded to reflect this System Center: Service Manager System Center: Operations Manager System Center: Virtual Machine Manager...
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I know that the title sounds deceiving, especially to those who’ve been watching the open source realm over the past couple decades. However, Microsoft has been dabbling with open source for awhile, and they even have a website that talks about...
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Yesterday, I got the news that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP in Visual C#! Thanks to those who’ve thought I’ve contributed to the C# community and developer community in one way or another and are giving me another year of showing...
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On June 28th, Microsoft released Office 365 – their office software as a service product. I previously blogged about the product in mid-April - http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2011/04/getting-started-with-office-365.html . During the latter stages of the beta...
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The cloud, and all it’s variations, is one of the more fundamental paradigm shifts of modern times, at least as far as IT id concerned – perhaps as fundamental as the arrival of the Internet itself. As a way of advancing IT Pro’s understanding of the...
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Thanks to May Jo Foley’s piece in ZDNet , I see Microsoft has just shipped a release candidate for Lync Server 2010. Lync, formerly known as Communications Server ‘14’ is the successor to Office Communications Server. The name, said to connect link and...
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Over the past few years, Microsoft has gotten big on blogging. A number of employees blog their activities to a personal blog. Additionally, a number of product teams blog, as a team. Some of these, such as You Had Me At EHLO (The Exchange Team Blog)...
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For some products, suggesting someone read a help file is like suggesting they take a long walk on a short pier (albeit less wet). But for Exchange 2007, this seems good advice. Microsoft published an updated version of the help file for Exchange, available...
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Microsoft's push into the world of Unified Communications continues with the launch of the Unified Communications Developer Portal . This MSDN portal is part of the Office Development Center, and is designed to feature links and resources for...
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Today’s news that Microsoft accepts defeat to Wikipedia and kills off Encarta , which I read in the on-line version of The Times, is quite sad. But it’s one data point in the huge shift we’re seeing from the older style printed material (and that includes...