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Seth Godin describes his experience setting up a PC for a friend. He notes that it’s not really a computer any more, but one big up sell opportunity. He describes it as “ A race to the bottom, […] a sleazy carnival complete with hawkers, barkers and a...
The gloves are off between Google and Microsoft, with Google announcing availability of a tool to migrate from Exchange Server to Google Apps. The problem is, Google Apps is a ‘cloud service’. Lately, I’ve been badly let down by some cloud services, so...
Labour’s Digital Economy bill is strangling creativity and criminalizing internet users. They don’t understand the new digital ecosystem and they don’t understand that the game is changing; has already changed. Quoting Tom Beardshaw : In the most ludicrous...
We use BE Unlimited as our broadband provider of choice. They are faster and cheaper than most of the competition and I’ve been blown away by the quality and helpfulness of their customer service. We live in semi-rural Wales, yet we get 24Mbps downstream...
This is my prediction. I would not be betting my business on Adobe Flash right now. A number of factors are conspiring to kill Flash at the moment. There's some background by Scobleizer . According to Robert Scoble, "developers [...] are no longer...
On my journey to and from the office yesterday, I had my Zune with me and I was listening to one of may favourite podcasts, Hanselminutes by Scott Hanselman . Scott is a technologist and web developer working for Microsoft, he is one of the ‘gang of four...
In a surprise announcement today, Nick King (Senior Product Manager - Windows Essential Business Server) revealed that Microsoft is to withdraw Windows Essential Business Server from the product range. In a conference call with Small Business Server MVPs...
Successful information technology requires vision and strategy . People sometimes ask me why I work exclusively with Microsoft products, when there are free alternatives available. There are many reasons, and one big one is because Microsoft has the vision...
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups...
Richard Tubb of NetLink IT has written on his blog – TubbBlog – about a recent venture where several partners from the Small Business Specialist Community came together to deliver a large, high quality service that would have been out of reach of any...
Server Fault Public Beta Launches - Blog - Stack Overflow All you IT Professionals out there need to check out Server Fault – if it is as successful as its sister site Stack Overflow , then it is going to sweep away sites like Yahoo Answers and Experts...
If you live or work in Wales you might be interested in this free Microsoft event being held at Conference Centre, Technium 2, Kings Road, Swansea, SA1 8PH on 10th June. UK ISV Developer Evangelism Team : Announcing free Microsoft Web & Cloud Computing...
This is one to watch for the IT professionals out there. ServerFault is a new community driven Q&A specifically for system administrators. It’s from the same stable as StackOverflow , an amazingly successful site aimed at software developers. ServerFault...
I’ve been predicting the arrival of Solid State Drives (SSD) for a while now. It doesn't seem like much of a prediction any more, we must surely be close to the tipping point where most computers will begin to ship with an SSD. The reality is almost...
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