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The fail-pillar and crash-cone? Good thing nobody runs critical business apps on consumer oriented Web 2.0 systems…
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Christmas 2005 (beta 1 of Office “12”), well at least that was the time I deployed Office 2007. But I appreciate some of you may be the risk averse type. SP1 is usually a good milestone for mainstream-ity. I had a realisation that Office 2007 had surpassed
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Gavin McKay has written a great howto article on making funky rounded tables in InfoPath HOWTO: Add Rounded Corners to an InfoPath 2007 Form « Back in Hack
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Ok, so it isn’t Ms. Dewey per se, but it is the same kind of digital guide that hangs out in your web browser throwing around video case studies at you (in silverlight, naturally). Microsoft Success Stories At this stage the case studies are all based
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I read this article on the Sydney Morning Herald website, and it was so good I had to share it. While I have seen plenty of tilt shifted photos, I think the combination of time lapse photography makes it freakily surreal! The North Wind Blew South from
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The OBA guys are doing some really , really cool stuff. As someone that works with salespeople every day, I know how tough and time consuming (but business critical) forecasting can be. Any time that an organisation can save from time consuming processes
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Two case studies in a row, I apologise. However, you might find this one interesting – we saved about $12k every meeting by using RoundTables and Office Live Meeting. Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft RoundTable have enabled managers to avoid
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An Australian InfoPath case study has been published on microsoft.com: Microsoft Case Studies: DP World Their solution uses SharePoint, InfoPath, CRM and Nintex workflow (a workflow tool that sits on top of MOSS and WF to provide WYSIWG workflow creation).
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I just saw a story from my old alma mater about them moving away from their old “interesting” mail system will be retired for Microsoft Live@edu Exchange Labs. If you haven’t heard of this, it is like Outlook in the cloud, which in my mind is the most
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If you saw me at Tech.Ed Australia or South East Asia, or have spoken to me for more than 5 minutes, you will now that I am a Groove tragic. However, that dubious role was brought into the Asia Pacific / Oceanic region by none other than Paul Cannon,
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Those cool (well, for java guys) dudes at Atlassian have beefed up their Office support in Confluence, their enterprise wiki system. From their press release: Confluence users can now edit wiki pages directly from Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint,
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(Shameless guerilla marketing attempt to astroturf support for...) Groove: Collaboration Mythbusters “It’s too hard to collaborate across so many firewalls. I can’t have access to what I need unless I VPN in or use terminal services.
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Damn, Dell got funky . I want 7 of these, just to get the whole set! Could the Dell Studio Hybrid be the computer to score high enough with the Girlfriend Acceptance Factor to justify the purchase? It is even green! From the dell site: Size and materials
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There is a lot of SharePoint buzz in the IT industry these days - even SharePoint 2003 was attracting a lot of interest. However, I think this image is a great description of the many branches of the SharePoint tree - more of a hedge than a coconut tree
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Relax - Still blogging (and twitter feed has been pumping out inane chatter) but I have been busy. So, what has been (and will be) happening in Al-land? Conference Fever! 7-11th of July - Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference , Houston - I was keeping
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