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Thursday, November 22, 2007 1:55 PM

Cool VOIP for small business: Response Point

I mainly work with large enterprise customers, so when we talk about enabling unified communications, it usually involves Exchange servers and Office Communicator and all sorts of cool enterprise class kit. But for small businesses there is now Response
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:14 AM

Groove Traction - where is Groove taking hold?

There is a great article on grooveuser.org about how Groove is being used throughout Europe. I think this sentence sums it up very well: By devolving membership down to those that understand the trust relationships best as well as providing the ability
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:54 AM

the online Open XML debate - *yawn*

I've tried to stay well away from this whole Open XML flamewar... regardless of the outcome I think the quality of the debate is degrading to the IT profession... ..but I can't resist this. A front page item on noooxml.org: Sure, they will write something.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:55 AM

Joel on Demos

Joel Spolsky wrote a great post on giving demo's, this bit is a gem: "The only interesting way to design a demo is to make it a story. You have a protagonist, and the protagonist has a problem, and they use the software, and they… almost solve
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Monday, November 19, 2007 10:31 AM

OMPM tips on Channel 9

I saw this on Doug Mahugh's blog ( Doug Mahugh : OMPM tips ), but I thought it was interesting enough to repost. Channel 9 is hosting some community tips and tricks for working with the OMPM (Office Migration Planning Manager) here . My favourite: Link
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Monday, November 19, 2007 9:01 AM

Aussie dollar steals Christmas

All I want for Christmas is a 20" laptop notebook portable foldable all-in-one . Is that too much to ask? Hey look, here is just the one at HP AU: HP Pavilion HDX Entertainment Notebook PC - 2.6GHz Core 2, 2GB ram, 2 x 200GB 4200RPM HDD. Oh darn
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:02 AM

The Visio 2007 Poker Game

Learn about visio, win prizes and skill up on PPP methodology (Programming with Pretty Pictures). The Visio 2007 IT Pro Game
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:54 AM

Just installed the new live suite...

...on 64 bit Vista - Woohoo! Get it here: www.windowslive.com
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:31 PM

Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express is free

Well, MSS has been announced now, the artist formerly known as S2. The best news? Search Server 2008 Express is free (ala WSS).  The release candidate is available now. Enterprise Search from Microsoft The second best news (and more interesting to
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Monday, November 05, 2007 11:16 AM

Will Microsoft's Orcas Make a Splash?

I read an interesting review on eweek tonight: The reality is that Visual Studio 2008 introduces features that only a subset of its users can really appreciate, and, generally speaking, those features are targeted at developers that work within the .Net
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:53 AM

Office Devcon 2007 has left the building

  Well, the Office Dev Con 2007 has drawn to a close after 2 full days and 100 pizzas. I was impressed at the turnout, considering it was a miserable weekend (stormy one day, scorching the next - the weather in Sydney is about as stable as the lane
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