All about Unified Communications
"Presentations in the Sky(drive) with diamonds"
A number of people have asked me where they can download a copy of the presentations from the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 01/03/2008
Official 'Optimised for Microsoft Office Communicator' device list
Back in May 2007, I did a blog post about all the new devices that were coming out. That...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 01/03/2008
The end is nigh !
Today saw are penultimate Exchange Unplugged Tour 2007 event in Gaydon at the Heritage Motor Museum...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 11/02/2007
Next big thing in presence enabled devices?
Luica at Inferno PR sent this over to me today, great find Luica :-) I would like to think...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/30/2007
No smoke and mirrors ... well .... no mirrors !
One of the things I really like about the Exchange Unplugged Tour is how the team have put together...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/25/2007
Exchange Unplugged Tour 2007 gets off to a great start
It's 18:21 and I am here sitting in my hotel room relaxing after the first day of Exchange Unplugged...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/24/2007
OCS Launch - Task Complete, Exchange Unplugged Tour 2007 - In Progress
Last week saw the culmination of months of work by a lot of people at Microsoft resulting in the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/23/2007
The Day The Hard Disk Died
"Bye Bye ... my laptop hard drive ... try to do a check disk but the end was nigh" It's...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/04/2007
Tanjay in the wilderness
A few weeks ago, I put together a post about my experiences of using the Tanjay at home and a...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/04/2007
'Review of the Samsung 225UW' and 'give video chat a chance
You might be asking yourself right now, why on earth is Mark talking about a monitor when he...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/03/2007
Office Communications Server 2007 comes to the UK
Over the past few months, I have been working with a number of people around the business on the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/28/2007
Having a permanent presence ....
Sounds scary doesn't it, what would it be like to be constantly sharing your presence whether you...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/28/2007
Office 2007 Ultimate for £40 ... yeah right!?
It almost 6pm on a Friday and I am still in the office ... how sad is that !? Before I disappear...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/21/2007
"Stick that in your ADSL pipe and phone it"
Being the UC product manager I am lucky enough to be firnished with a few more devices than others...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/11/2007
Video conferencing for the home .... your's for only $1000
I have said before that the technologies we are putting on the desktops of the employees has been in...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/07/2007
Raising the bar
Darren aka Office Rocker was talking to me today about a post he has just made called 'Excel users...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/30/2007
What a week of communications announcements ... and its only Wednesday !
I have been wanting to do a few postings this week so I thought I might save on the 0's and 1's and...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/22/2007
How many hours a week are you online?
Going through my RSS feeds I came across a really interesting post made by Katie which highlighted...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/14/2007
What happens when 'communications aren't unified'?
There are a number of blogs I follow (via RSS of course) and the new 'blogger on the block' is Maren...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/14/2007
Review - Jabra UC devices
One of the common questions I get asked is 'what do you have on your desk then' when I start talking...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/14/2007
Windows Live Messenger vs Communicator 2007
Darren Strange and I had a quick chat this morning to come up with list of why people may wish to...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/08/2007
Insight into Cisco's view on Unified Communications
Brett Johnson sent me a link to an interview between UC Stratergies.com and Christopher Thompson...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/07/2007
Ah .... that's better !
Excuse the brevity of this post, just wanted to share my success with you before I am done for the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/02/2007
It all starts today
Today we RTM (Released to Manufacturing) Office Communications Server 2007 and its relating...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/27/2007
A Dark Day in the Deakin household
This post is a little off topic but I wanted to share with you one of the best gadgets I have ever...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/20/2007
QoS and the M25
About a week ago, a few of us from work drove over to Le Mans and I was reminded once again of the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/25/2007
Microsoft Roundtable review
One of the 'cooler' pieces of technology to come out of Microsoft Research and make its way into the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/25/2007
PartnerBot
Before starting my job as the UC Product Manager I used to work in SMSP (the partner side of the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/25/2007
Got your number!?
This week, I unplugged the telephone on my desk and put it on the other pile of stuff on my desk...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/22/2007
Friday browsing (and roundup for the week)
I am sure I shouldn't admit this, but I have spent a little bit of this Friday catching up on other...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/08/2007
VoIP as you are!
One of the questions I get asked at events, almost without fail, is 'Are Microsoft creating a PBX...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/05/2007
Microsoft Surface - Could this make communication easier?
Just in case you had not heard about it, we recently announced Microsoft Surface, an interesting...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/30/2007
10 Years of Outlook Web Access
I received an email from one of my friends over in corp that Outlook Web Access has reached the ripe...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/29/2007
VOIP shouldn't mean 'rip and replace'
With many voice over IP or IP PBX deployments, in order to deploy the new technology you first need...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/23/2007
Partner device websites start to go live
I thought it might be useful to have a post that includes links to more information on the recently...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/17/2007
Unified Communications Devices .... coming to PC near you!
A while ago at Voicecon we announced not only the public beta availability of Office Communications...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/14/2007
OCS 2007 and Response Point
Last month Microsoft Research announced a product called Response Point and I quickly noted down...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/20/2007
Excellent example of multi-modal support
One of the examples I tend to give where both telephone and IM can work together is when interacting...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/16/2007
Exceeding expectations
About a week ago I popped into the Reading Audi garage to book an appointment to get my Audi looked...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/10/2007
More cross platform loveliness
One of the things I really love about what we do a Microsoft is that sometimes we like to 'break the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/09/2007
Review of Office Communications Server 2007 on ZDNet - OCS in a 'nutshell'
One of the parts of my job I really enjoy doing is speaking to customer, partners and journolists...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/27/2007