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Monday, August 21, 2006 7:11 PM

Instant messaging - anywhere

A lot of us are trying to get our heads around Web 2.0 and how it will affect the way we work on the web.  People are driving the web - not the other way around.  Think about commenting on blogs, subscribing to something on a Wiki - this
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:27 PM

Adding Speech to Office Comunications Server

I know that Speech Server isn't directly in my technical area so to speak, although I've mentioned it from time to time,  but with the inclusion of Speech Server within Exchange Unified Messaging, and now with the announcement  in the news that
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Friday, July 28, 2006 4:36 PM

LCS 2005 and SQL 2005 - yes: together at last..

I get hassled about this quite a lot.  Steven has been beating me up about it recently, and the other day I mailed to Lee explaining the reasons why we don't support SQL 2005 running on LCS 2005. Oops.. Well we do now! James has all of
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:06 PM

Unified: A strategy but no communications?

I was interested to read the blog post from Microsoft Monitor the other day talking about our recent announcements on our Unified Communications Strategy.  I was at the UC user group meeting on Tuesday (there's another one tonight too,) and it was
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:42 PM

MSN Messenger and Yahoo talk to each other.

We've had this a while in our Live Communications Server product.  The ability for corporate users to have contacts that are external to their company.  We call it PIC (Public Internet Connectivity), and here's some information on it if you'd
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Monday, July 10, 2006 4:29 PM

Unified Communications. Come to a User group meeting

The Unified Communications User group is having 2 meetings in the UK in July.  Register for the event in Reading on the 18th July here and the event in London on 20th July here..The pub (after the Meeting  - not during!) will
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:45 PM

Moving towards truly Unified Communications

***edited with working link*** I had to miss the live streaming show from San Francisco last night as I had to sit  on an online Chat between the IT Evangelists and the UK MVPs.  My participation in the chat kept me too busy to truly multi
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:20 PM

Live messenger 8.0 available to download

I blogged about the Live Messenger beta availability a couple of months ago, and I'm amazed at how many people still refer to this as MSN messenger 8.0!  We're obviously not doing our marketing to the right audience if most of my referrals to the
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Friday, June 02, 2006 3:08 PM

User groups leaders for user groups

We're hosting a community leaders day today on campus, where we invite all of the people in the UK who run User groups, either online or offline.  They come from all technology areas, but in the IT Pto space, there are a number of gaps. In the UK
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:30 PM

Watch out: Another Instant messaging worm

This IM worm has been affecting Yahoo Messenger users, and installs a "Safety Browser" onto the desktop (hiding behind an Internet Explorer logo).  This leads the user to sites which could install spyware on PC's.  Have a look at the news
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:35 PM

Live Messenger features

(I can't get my head around this new name.  I still think of this as MSN messenger 8.0).  Anyway, here's a list of features that you can try, now that you've got your hands on the beta... Windows Live Call. With one click users can now make
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:15 PM

RTC Webcasts for June

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Level 100)Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific TimeEvan Archilla, Consultant, Projectline ServicesMicrosoft Office Communicator 2005 is an integrated
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:17 PM

MSN Messenger 8.0 beta

Well it's not really MSN messenger 8.0 any more, it's called Windows Live Messenger. And you can download it now as it's gone to a beta program where enyone can try it out.  Just go here to see all of the different beta programs you can
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:14 PM

Office Communicator for your cell phone

We've now released a version of communicatior for the mobile phone.  So we now have the full client, the Web client and a client for cellphones.  nice... Communicator Mobile extends the reach of Live Communications Server 2005 to information
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:12 PM

Take an MCP exam for Free

James noticed that you can take an MCP exam for Live Communications Server for free.  You need to use a promotional code (on his blog)  when you book the exam.  And if you pass the beta - you'll be one of the first MCP's on LCS too... so
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