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Given that we are launching Vista this week I thought it would be nice to take a look back at the Windows 386. Ahh the good old days...

There seems to be a bit of confusion in the financial services community about Microsoft's commitment to industry standards. As many of you know, on the technology standards side (WS-*) Microsoft is the clear leader in this space. On the industry side...

I just ran across Callwave a great way to get Visual Voice Mail! It great for me because I do not get a signal on campus and I can instantly know when I get a all or VM. It will also allow me to save messages as well. It multi-platform as a Windows application...

I was working with Camtasia and I have been getting all sorts of errors from audio to video and even registration of components. Well I think my problems are solved. I have been playing with the new beta Camtasia Beta 4.0.1. It's working really well....

An Overview of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 The new version of SharePoint is poised to meet all your collaboration and information management needs in a single, integrated platform. Here’s a tour of the new features and tools in MOSS that will...

Building on the successful concept of Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services , we are announcing a set of Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites . The first two templates, planned to be available in the end of this month (January...

ABSTRACT Office 2007 the next business platform for Financial Services This session will cover the new Loan Origination Reference Architecture that is built using Office 2007 and BizTalk technologies. We will relate to the top challenges in the industry...

A free Loan Origination System (LOS)! I was amazed to see this out there. LoanAce is more like a POS system like Caylx but for small loan shops this will do. If I was a broker I would be all over this. I actually downloaded this and checked it out, It...

Visa, the world's biggest credit card payment system, has launched a global system to turn mobile phones into wallets for millions of customers in a deal with the world's top handset producer, Nokia. Users can pay for groceries and other purchases by...

Well my keynote at NAPFA did not go as planned. I spent all day in bed with food poisoning. I must of ate something that didn't agree with me because I looked a lot like this guy all night! Sorry folks! We will schedule a Web Cast Shortly.

Recently released on the Bank Systems and Technology site is a whitepaper on collaboration with the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Link to Whitepaper: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikewalker/attachment/1493332.ashx Here is a rough summary...

One of the items I am working on wrapping up in the next few months is the Loan Organization Reference Architecture for Banking. To give you a brief summary, this reference architecture is built using the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and...

I've been getting a lot of e-mail on when the Composite / OBA Applications Book would be available for download or purchase. We have launched a free version online. It's about 100 pages total printed. Full Book Financial Services Chapter This...

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Windows Live for TV is an early beta 3D browser application that makes it easy to connect to your social network as well as friends and family from within Vista Media Center or IE7.0. You're be able to view the best of Windows Live Spaces and communicate...