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Microsoft Invents Time Travel
You heard it here first. Dr. Who eat your heart out. Every night around midnight, for a few seconds, Outlook 2010 lets me see into the future. Here’s the proof: Share this post: | | |
ASP.NET MVC Quickly
Book Review ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly Maarten Balliauw Packt Publishing I set out to learn ASP.NET MVC with this book with some trepidation, as the preview release of ASP.NET 2.0 was already available. My concern was that the book would be out of date....
Adobe Flash is Dead
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...
Microsoft Kills Essential Business Server
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...
Competition: Win Visual Studio 2010 Professional
This will be of interest mainly to astronomy enthusiasts… Competition: Win Visual Studio Professional 2008/2010 Thanks to my friends at Microsoft, I have been allocated one copy of Visual Studio Professional 2008 or 2010 to give away as a prize to the...
Buying computer add-ons? First Visit the Windows 7 Compatibility site
So many people buy the very cheapest add-ons for their computer, or just buy the first thing they see on the shelves. Let me tell you, there is a lot of nasty rubbish out there. It all looks good in the box, but when you get it home and plug it in, things...
My Favourite Computer Game is: Microsoft Office!
I’ve always jokingly said that my favourite computer game is Microsoft Office. Well, I think Microsoft must have heard me, because now, you can play Ribbon Hero and have fun while you learn how to become an Office power user. They say that if you find...
Future Vision
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...
Microsoft, MVPs and Child Protection
The last couple of days I’ve been the guest of Microsoft UK at their Thames Valley Park HQ in Reading. About a hundred MVPs from across the UK and Ireland came together to learn from each other, find out about upcoming technology, to network and socialise...
Windows 7: Would You Like Fries With That?
Those cunning Japanese have figured out a great way to commemorate Windows 7 General Availability: The Windows 7 Whopper! Share this post: | | |
The World Got Bigger
Remember a while back I was having a dig at Multimap , aka Bing Maps? One of my main criticisms was that the map area was too small compared to the advertisements. Guess what happened? Then Now Well, that’s a bit better. Now how about those very annoying...
Building The ASCOM Platform 6.0
A few weeks ago I wrote about the next ASCOM platform and the tools we are using to build it. Things have changed a bit and it’s time for an update. We’ve added an extra dimension to our development system, which is hosted on servers provided by TiGra...
Churn in the Social Networks
I’ve always felt that facebook was a useless waste of time and worse, was free and easy with people’s personal information. Recently there has been a series of prominent figures – Bill Gates for example - ditching facebook. I just saw this post from Steve...
Windows 7 is a Hit
The buzz around Windows 7 is really positive, in contrast to the luke-warm reaction that Windows Vista received. Just check out the Twitter keyword #Windows7 to see what I mean. Right from the first moment I saw Windows 7 beta, several months ago, I characterised...
Linq to Events
If you’re a software engineer, go take a look at this article now. I think there is one of those subtle-but-seismic changes happening in software engineering that changes the way developers get things done. I was just reading an article titled “Linq to...
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