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Monday, February 05, 2007 7:47 PM

Technical Readiness and PowerPoint

I'm out in Seattle all this week for our technical conference (TechReady). We run this event twice a year for the Presales tech guys, the technical account managers, consultants, architects, and people from the services business. We're here to get up
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Friday, January 26, 2007 2:18 PM

Let's start Talking Microsoft again

The team have had loads and loads of challenges with our Talking Microsoft blog that we started in the summer ( explained here ), but we've finally worked stuff out, and are ready to publish our backlog of videos. The aim of Talking Microsoft is to give
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:50 PM

Daylight Savings Time - what you need to do...

Ali is having a total nightmare with the changes to Daylight Savings time in the US and mailed me for help, so I started digging around for information. We'd mentioned DST in our last TechNet newsletter (register here by the way). Here's what we said...
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 10 Comments
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:50 PM

How creative are you?

Phil asked me to mention this as it's for a good cause, and you may not have seen this through other channels. I would like to bring to your attention to an activity that builds on the success of Design IT in 2006. How could you help a charity if we offered
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Friday, December 15, 2006 5:41 PM

What is an influencer?

I've been on a team offsite event in the Midlands of England, in a pretty little market town with 900 years of history. Unfortunately, we were ensconced in a conference room (as usual), discussing various aspects of evangelism. One of these topics: influencers.
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 16 Comments
Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:31 PM

RSS - just how popular is it?

I wrote the article below for the TechNet newsletter this week and I've been amazed at the huge response I've had to the article. I've decided to reproduce it here to see if blog readers have the same thoughts about RSS than those who read the TechNet
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 9 Comments
Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:14 AM

Software in the air...

James, (not not "that" James , "this" James ) has linked to this great video from Microsoft research on his blog. Video: Fortune Teller - 300kb Fortune Teller - 300kb The amazing thing is - this vision is a lot closer than it seems... If you think back
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Monday, October 30, 2006 8:22 PM

TechNet magazine available in more languages

For those of you who haven’t seen this announcement about TechNet, I wanted to bring it to your attention. I know that for some of you, English may not be your first, or even second language, We've been doing some work on making the TechNet magazine more
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:38 PM

Using Office 2003? Make Sure You're Compatible

Are you using Office 2003 and not yet trying out the beta of 2007? Are some of your colleagues well into testing Office 2007 and moaning at you? Make sure you can open and edit the documents sent to you by colleagues who are using the 2007 Office system.
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:11 PM

Find videos with Blinkx

Hmmm. It's really interesting that we've signed a deal with Blinkx . We haven't bought the company. We've agreed to pay Blinkx an outright licensing fee based on how much use visitors to Microsoft Web sites make of the Blinkx search system which could
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, October 02, 2006 3:01 PM

Flickr plug in for Live writer

I don't usually post photos onto my blog - I find that they're a hassle to do as I hate HTML. I need to go into the HTML interface, find the part of the post to add the image. I then need to add the <img src> tag (or whatever it is) into my blog.
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Monday, September 25, 2006 3:57 PM

Cleaning up your Powerpoint documents

John, one of our Platform Strategy Advisors (he talks about Visual Studio a lot in a broad Geordie accent), send a mail out with an amazing tip about Powerpoint, which I repeat in full as it's really useful and will save you lots of time... If you, like
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Friday, September 15, 2006 6:58 PM

Beware of Internet dating and duping...

I was truly horrified to read Dare's post the other day which talks about how Craigslist has been compromised, several people have been seriously embarrassed, and there are separations occurring due to people looking for love on the web. Warning. This
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:03 PM

A computer that reads hand movements

Wow. We've got some totally amazing people working here. I've just read an article in the Wall Street Journal about Andy Wilson, TouchLight and his computer that reads hand movements. You can spin stuff round on the screen just by waving at it. TouchLight
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:07 PM

Easy blogging with Windows Live Writer

Mike has been bugging me to blog about this, and because I didn't do it immediately, he's blogged about the beta version of Live writer is now available for you to download . I've been using Live writer to do these posts for a while now. So why do I like
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