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"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

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