Thoughts from Microsoft Ireland
A random collection of news and links about Microsoft Ireland by Tom Murphy
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Released
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been released to Windows Update and the Microsoft Download...
Author: tomurphy Date: 03/19/2008
Microsoft Announces New Accessibility Tools and Resources for Developers
Microsoft has launched a new online resource and released two new open-source accessibility testing...
Author: tomurphy Date: 03/18/2008
Irish teacher wins European Innovative Teacher award!
Kate O'Connell, a teacher at Scoil Mhuire Kilvemnon, Mullinahone in Tipperary won First place at the...
Author: tomurphy Date: 03/18/2008
Windows Live.ie - Now available
If you're interested in signing up for Windows Live services such as Instant Messaging, Hotmail,...
Author: tomurphy Date: 03/14/2008
Lorraine Keane, Caroline Casey and Senior Business Women Address Microsoft Employees on the Meaning of Success
Dublin: 12th March 2008 - Earlier today two of Ireland’s best know women, Lorraine Keane,...
Author: tomurphy Date: 03/12/2008
Digital Society: Volume 2, Issue 1 Published
If you want to find out what's going on at Microsoft Ireland, why not download the...
Author: tomurphy Date: 03/12/2008
Windows Server 2008 Launched in Ireland
Dublin: March 11th 2008 - The official Irish launch of Windows Server 2008; SQL Server 2008; and...
Author: tomurphy Date: 03/11/2008
Dublin Inner City IT training centres upgraded
Minister of State Pat Carey today announced that ten Digital Community Centres across the inner city...
Author: tomurphy Date: 03/05/2008
Seminar: Keeping kids safe on social networks
There's a makeITsecure seminar planned for next Friday (8.30am, February 22nd, 2008, Conrad Hotel,...
Author: tomurphy Date: 02/15/2008
Irish Knights Get a New Roundtable
Last week we announced that Irish customers can now purchase Microsoft RoundTable. It's an...
Author: tomurphy Date: 02/11/2008
Help Irish charities to take advantage of technology
Since the Technology Donations programme launched just before Christmas, Irish charities have...
Author: tomurphy Date: 02/07/2008
Microsoft Ireland Launches Staff Volunteering Programme
We've just launched a new staff volunteering programme. Every full time employee at Microsoft...
Author: tomurphy Date: 02/06/2008
The rise of "creative capitalism"
During his keynote address at the World Economic Forum last week, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates...
Author: tomurphy Date: 01/28/2008
Microsoft and Dell Launch (RED) Products
Earlier today Microsoft and Dell announced plans to provide (PRODUCT) RED branded Dell personal...
Author: tomurphy Date: 01/24/2008
Minister Hanafin addresses Government Leaders Forum in Berlin
The Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin T.D., today delivered a keynote address to the...
Author: tomurphy Date: 01/23/2008
Microsoft Postgraduate Research Scholarships awarded to DCU students
Four students in the School of Computing at Dublin City University, have been awarded scholarships...
Author: tomurphy Date: 01/21/2008
Microsoft Provides Accessibility Programming Model to Industry Group
Earlier today Microsoft announced that it has committed to contribute its UI Automation...
Author: tomurphy Date: 01/17/2008
Bill's last day at Microsoft
From Bill's keynote at the CES show. You can watch the full keynote here.
Author: tomurphy Date: 01/08/2008
What about hardware donations for non-profits in Ireland?
A quick follow up post on the announcement of the Technology Donations programme last month. [Quick...
Author: tomurphy Date: 01/03/2008
CSR in Korea - the Irish link
Keith Morrison is an Irishman working for the Edelman PR firm in South Korea. He writes for...
Author: tomurphy Date: 01/02/2008
New Technology Donation Programme for Every Non-Profit Organisation in Ireland
Earlier today a new national technology donations for non profit organisations in Ireland was...
Author: tomurphy Date: 12/12/2007
Service Pack 1 for 2007 Office Released
Service Pack 1 for 2007 Microsoft Office system, which delivers a range of stability, performance...
Author: tomurphy Date: 12/11/2007
Are you a Moofer?
There's no doubt that our working environment is changing, and from the UK we have a new term MOOF...
Author: tomurphy Date: 12/11/2007
New Industry Alliance Formed to Address Accessibility and Interoperability
A group of information and assistive technology companies today announced the Accessibility...
Author: tomurphy Date: 12/10/2007
Assistive Technology Graduation
Earlier this week we hosted this year's Enable Ireland National High-Tech Assistive Technlogy (AT)...
Author: tomurphy Date: 12/06/2007
Changing Lives with Technology
While many things are purported to be "life changing", in reality very few things actually...
Author: tomurphy Date: 12/02/2007
Interested in finding out about CSR in Ireland?
If your interested in what kind of Corporate Social Responsibility programmes are being undertaken...
Author: tomurphy Date: 11/30/2007
Mashup Camp in Dublin...
Earlier this month US ZDNet journalist David Berlind and Doug Gold brought their Mashup Camp to...
Author: tomurphy Date: 11/27/2007
Web-based Outlining..
Windows Live Labs has released a beta of an interesting new service: Listas. Listas is an online...
Author: tomurphy Date: 11/25/2007
Easing the pain of managing files and folders...
If you're like me you probably have files and folders in a range of different locations -- maybe...
Author: tomurphy Date: 11/25/2007
Welcome to "Thoughts from Microsoft Ireland"
The difficult first post... My name is Tom Murphy and I look after Public Relations and Corporate...
Author: tomurphy Date: 11/23/2007