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James Senior at Microsoft: Like a kid in a candy store
Live Writer Gadget
Scott has been beavering away at a gadget to assist in the creation of blog posts using Windows Live...
Author: james Date: 02/09/2007
Windows Vista Business Value Tool
The Windows Vista Business Value Tool is a Partner tool that can be used to help quantify your...
Author: james Date: 02/09/2007
Updated Outlook Gadget
A new version of the Outlook Gadget is available which features No of total unread emails, upcoming...
Author: james Date: 02/09/2007
Target Virtual Earth Mashup
Target in the US have integrated Virtual Earth into their store locator section of the website. It...
Author: james Date: 02/09/2007
NextGenUG interview Scott Guthrie
Dave and Rich over at the NextGenUG got to interview Scott Guthrie (Mr .NET) on Saturday after the...
Author: james Date: 02/08/2007
Partner access to Vista and Office
It has been over four years since the last major release of Office or Windows and twelve years since...
Author: james Date: 02/08/2007
Small Software Developer? Daunted by MS technology adoption?
I admit it, keeping track of all the latest technologies coming out of Microsoft is a challenge in...
Author: james Date: 02/07/2007
Enterprise Search with Sharepoint
Something I use internally at Microsoft a lot is the search within Sharepoint to find documents,...
Author: james Date: 02/07/2007
IIS7: a whole load of hosting goodness
The IIS website over at www.iis.net has had a revamp in the wake of the Vista launch which of course...
Author: james Date: 02/07/2007
Wikipedia Explorer Video
Nay - one of my esteemed graduate colleagues from Microsoft France - has gone and put together a...
Author: james Date: 02/07/2007
MSDE on Vista - are you ready?
My girlfriend - who also works at Microsoft (yes we're just one big happy family here at MS UK) -...
Author: james Date: 02/05/2007
IE Address bar gets the green light
There's been quite a bit written about IE7 and the red address bar that warns users of a suspicious...
Author: james Date: 02/05/2007
Cunning Advertising
I heard on the grapevine that we had done some clever advertising incorporating clips of upcoming tv...
Author: james Date: 02/05/2007
WPF/E CTP (Feb 2007)
This little blighter slipped out the door on the 2nd and I didn't even realise! Lucky Mike Taulty...
Author: james Date: 02/05/2007
Wikipedia Explorer
The guys over at DotNet Solutions have put together a rather cool application called Wikipedia...
Author: james Date: 02/02/2007
Windows Vista Volume Activation and Reduced Functionality Mode
James O'Neil has an excellent post on over on his blog and exactly what is involved in using Volume...
Author: james Date: 02/02/2007
Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Public Beta
We are pleased to announce the release of the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Public Beta! Please...
Author: james Date: 02/02/2007
Geeks bearing gifts
Today at DesignerUtopia I was fortunate enough to sit in on the session delivered by Tjeerd Hoek,...
Author: james Date: 02/02/2007
Google: The Masterplan
Mr Pallot pointed an interesting site out on Google today which poses some interesting questions....
Author: james Date: 02/02/2007
Turn those pages remotely at the British Library
So at the internal launch event in the UK I demoed the British Library application to everyone and...
Author: james Date: 02/01/2007
Aspen Mountain in WPF
More news from the Designer Utopia Event, Beau Ambur from Metaliq showed off their Aspen...
Author: james Date: 02/01/2007
Standards based web design: the opposite of Microsoft based web design
"Standards based web design is the opposite of Microsoft based web design" That was a joke one of...
Author: james Date: 02/01/2007
XAML, it sounds like "camel"
Robby Ingebretsen from Identity Mine presented at the Microsoft Designer Utopia event today in...
Author: james Date: 02/01/2007
NxgGen UG WPF/E Style
Matt and I travelled up to Birmingham on Monday night to talk Vista, Office and .NET 3.0 to the Next...
Author: james Date: 01/25/2007
Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference
The Business Intelligence crowd were feeling left out what with all these other conferences going on...
Author: james Date: 01/24/2007
Google Hype: Google Maps
I've been asked to do Vista & Office event at Derby University in February and I went on to the...
Author: james Date: 01/24/2007
DST Support Update
To help customers through this change and in response to their feedback, Microsoft has decided to...
Author: james Date: 01/24/2007
i-Mate Momento SideShow Interview
Before Christmas I travelled down to the south coast and interviewed one of the guys from i-Mate...
Author: james Date: 01/22/2007
Vista, Office and Exchange Webcasts
Windows Vista, 2007 Microosft Office system, Exchange Server 2007 Launch preview for Federal...
Author: james Date: 01/22/2007
Windows SideShow .NET Framework Components 1.0 (Beta)
Wooohoo, the long-awaited managed code wrapper for Windows Sideshow was released yesterday on Beta!...
Author: james Date: 01/20/2007
Windows Vista Tips & Tricks
Today, courtesy of Mr Akrigg, I found out a rather nice trick for Windows Sidebar. if you've got...
Author: james Date: 01/18/2007
BDD Released
Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 is THE best practice set of comprehensive guidance and tools...
Author: james Date: 01/18/2007
Planning the Vista deployment at Microsoft
We've got a fair few machines kicking about at Microsoft and as you can imagine deploying Windows...
Author: james Date: 01/17/2007
Become an Office 2007 Solution Partner
As many of our partners already have found out, Solution Profiler and Solution Finder are fantastic...
Author: james Date: 01/17/2007
CES Sideshow Devices
If you were (like me) not fortunate enough to visit CES this year, you can check out all the Vista...
Author: james Date: 01/17/2007
Longhorn Group Policy Enhancements
With Longhorn slated for release later this year, administrators will be keen to read about what...
Author: james Date: 01/17/2007
Free MCP Practice Tests for Partners
Do You Work in a Microsoft Partner Organization? Try Free Practice Tests (Worldwide) If you work in...
Author: james Date: 01/16/2007
Vista sales stronger than expected
First month over and done with and the sales were better than the analysts expected. That's only for...
Author: james Date: 01/12/2007
Technology Guarantee Programs for Windows & Office
For our valued Windows and Office we have a Technology Guarantee Program available which basically...
Author: james Date: 01/12/2007
Searching for the next-gen ISVs
Mr Rob Morley who works on the Empower programme at Microsoft has a rather informative blog over at...
Author: james Date: 01/12/2007
Daylight Saving Partner Webcast
Further to my recent post about Daylight Saving updates to Microsoft products, partners are...
Author: james Date: 01/11/2007
Mobile 5.0 Development
Interesting Mobile 5.0 APIs are being released - you'll get them in ROM and hence do not have to be...
Author: james Date: 01/10/2007
Office 2008 for Mac OS
We recently announced that Office 2008 for Mac will be released during the second half of this year...
Author: james Date: 01/10/2007
Win Zunes and Digital Photo Frames with the DRT Challenge
Do you think you have what it takes to give the best Windows Vista demoes when placed up against...
Author: james Date: 01/10/2007
The Panel - UniveRSS
Came across this new MSDN website called "The Panel" today where you can download applications built...
Author: james Date: 01/10/2007
Windows Vista Phishing Scam
Watch out for Windows Vista phishing scams You may have seen some variation of an e-mail message...
Author: james Date: 01/10/2007
January Partner Action Packs
The new Action Packs for Partners are being distributed to subscribers and include the following...
Author: james Date: 01/10/2007
First of Four Vista Certifications Released
Get yourselves trained and certified on Windows Vista Configuration:...
Author: james Date: 01/09/2007
Deployment Interview with Microsoft IT
I forgot to post about my first interview conducted last month for Partner TV! I sat down and talked...
Author: james Date: 01/09/2007
Daylight Saving Changes in the US & Canada
Just as an FYI, Microsoft are going to be rolling out updates for products that will update them to...
Author: james Date: 01/09/2007