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Friday, February 09, 2007 5:55 PM

More on Windows mobile 6 (Crossbow)

That's so typical... I blog enthusiastically about my new toy and the announcement on mobile 6, then Jason goes and hits the web with an excellent (and long) post showing you all of the amazing features of mobile 6. Nice post Jason... you should have
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 7:27 PM

Unified Communications - where's mine?...

Hmm, Day two of our technical conference and I'm irritated. The sessions so far have been really good, the opportunity to chat to the people in the product team is always great. I get to hear what's going on at the moment and what we're doing in the future
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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
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:54 PM

People and problems

I often get asked why I answer all emails sent to me through my blog. Often these mails are not related to my technology (sometimes they are so far away I don't know what the heck they mean). Sometimes the question scares me too much I want to respond
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Monday, January 29, 2007 6:54 PM

The evolution of the video clip

I'm amazed at co-incidences and how often that they happen to me. Often 2 totally unrelated incidents happen that are portentous because they refer to the same thing. On Saturday, Jon sent me the link to this really really old video that we did about
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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
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Friday, January 19, 2007 2:42 PM

Managing people at Microsoft

...is different to managing people anywhere else I've ever worked. In some ways it's frustrating, with all of the processes, forms, meetings, templates and review forms to fill out. In other ways, this structure means that your career history, performance,
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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
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Monday, January 01, 2007 10:48 AM

Getting on my soapbox

Well it's the first day of the New Year, I've broken several resolutions hours ago, so I thoughts I'd repair some of my damaged brain cells by looking at some of the new stuff we've been doing last year. I've been having a look at MSN Soapbox which is
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Friday, December 29, 2006 4:36 PM

5 things you don't know about me

Well Daniel tagged me, so I thought I'd enter into the spirit of this too. There's been a tagging meme throughout the blogosphere for the past few weeks. You get tagged by someone who asks you to reveal 5 things that people wouldn't know about you, and
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Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:41 AM

Working at Microsoft

Do you want to work at Microsoft in the UK? We've produced a nice little site that talks about jobs working on Xbox 360, Vista, Office and Windows Live. Have a look at this site and pass it on to anyone who you think needs a change of career, change of
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006 2:17 PM

Do you want to work flexibly?

I got quite a response to my blog post the other month about leaving the office on time, and whenever I'm at an event, someone usually mentions how brave I am to swan off early (to avoid the traffic) and not come in to the office on Mondays and Fridays
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Friday, December 22, 2006 3:45 PM

Influential bloggers - who are they?

Well I'm winding down for Christmas, tidying up my inbox to a sensible level and clearing down all of my teams expense reports, holiday requests and stuff like that. I received a mail which refers to the blog post the other day about Influencers . We're
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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.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:45 AM

Ancient calculator

I was impressed when I saw this story a couple of weeks ago about this ancient calculator that has been discovered in Greece. it looks like a mechanical computer - which is what it is really. Fairly complicated gearing system too. Mind you, the Mayans
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