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Harry B asked me to mention SMB Nation Europe that is happening this Friday, December 5th in London. Still time to register! http://www.smbnation.com/events_listpage.asp?Category=London~2008&Cat=Category Agenda December 5, 2008 – Microsoft Central London 8:30am-9:30am Delegate Registration 9:30am...
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I'm curious how many Microsoft Partners are/are not deploying Windows Vista. I've started a discussion thread at the SBSC group on LinkedIn . If you're not already a member of that group, please take this opportunity to join if you are SBSC qualified.
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Licensing for Windows Essential Server Solutions either just got easier, or more complicated. I can’t really decide which, so I’ll leave that decision to you… Get a Discount on Windows Essential Server Solutions Upgrades & Migrations with Solutions Pathway Help your customers easily upgrade or migrate...
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This publication is available on the Ofcom web site and is in the form of an Interactive Executive Summary where you can leave comments. There are actually very few comments on the document at present, I have started adding mine today. We (IT Professionals) are the people who know best what our businesses...
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Is your ISP patched against the DNS cache poisoning ( US CERT advisory ) exploit? There are confirmed attacks in the wild . My ISP is patched. I asked them, and actually got an intelligent response. They escalated my ticket and a day later came the response: “Thank you for contacting us And again thanks...
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Move over Minesweeper! I received a link to this from my MVP lead and I'm hooked, despite the blatant advertising. The cleverly done retro-chic "plinky plonky" music, chunky graphics and office politics takes me straight back to the early 1980s, Sinclair Spectrum and BBC Micro (model "B"...
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When choosing an IT provider, ask yourself this question: "Does my IT provider rely on my systems going wrong to make money?". If the answer is "yes" then perhaps you should consider a new IT provider. If your IT provider bills you by the hour, then you probably fall into this category...
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The 2008 launch wave is gaining momentum. Microsoft announced a few hours ago that both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 have been released to manufacturing. Windows Vista service pack 1 will likely impact most users in the short term. At TiGra Networks, we've been actively involved...
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Chris Rue has a stinging appraisal of Groove over at the funcave. "Groove has to be the worst software I’ve ever used in my life. [it] has the most idiotic user interface seen since cc:Mail. [...] To top it off, [...] this thing totally sucks at handling the group part of collaboration. Which is...
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I've spent most of today at the London Hilton attending Microsoft's partner pre-launch for servers & tools. Grace and I were lucky enough to get a front row seat just 6ft away from Bill Gates as he gave the keynote speech and held a Q&A session with Scott Dodds. I don't usually go...
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Plenty of people find User Account Control (UAC) a bit annoying - Like Paul at Accendo for example. However, I think it is worth living with. Yes, it is slightly annoying, but generally I'm anticipating the prompt when it does happen, either because I clicked on a button displaying the Shield icon...
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I was reading an article by David Overton , a Microsoft employee whose opinions I really respect. Of course, being a Microsoft employee he is always keen to play up the benefits of Microsoft's products, but I think he manages to do so in a fair and reasonable way and his comments are always rooted...
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Did you know, Intel Core 2 Duo processors are 64-bit! I'm running Windows Vista x64 on one right now as I type this post. I mention this because I've spoken to a lot of people recently who don't seem to realize that. SBSCs, that means, unless I've seriously misunderstood something - you...
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Darren Strange aka The Office Rocker has a new guest blogger, Colin Ashurst from Durham Business School, who has nailed what I see as one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. Time and again I see computers being used as nothing more than glorified typewriters. It is amazing how sometimes...
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Seth's Blog: How to make a million dollars Seth Godin essentially says that competing on price doesn't work. Ultimately, I agree with him. I touched on this theme a little while ago in my post The Zen of Free . I've discovered that it is harder than you might expect to give stuff away for...