Neil Hutson - Focused on Emerging Technologies for Microsoft

I have been working on 64-bit adoption for many years now (some say too many), first with Itanium and then more recently over the last 4 years with X64. Clearly there has been a shift from 32-bit to 64-bit on the server for obvious reasons, with some...

This is an interesting experiment that was conducted around Vista. They asked a number of people that had not installed Vista to try our our latest Windows 7 product. ( http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/ )   There are a few comments on why it was not...

So if you ever wanted IE8 to be integrated into your Vista Install Image, how could you do this? In this really quick 8 minute screencast, Matt Hester shows how you can do this pretty quickly on EDGE . Click on the image to see the screencast. Slipstreaming...

Eric White on the team has just released his PowerTools PowerShell cmdlets for OpenXML onto Codeplex. The PowerTools for Open XML is sample source code and guidance for developers showing how to build PowerShell cmdlets that can create and modify Open...

I normally keep my blog pretty much on track with Technical Stuff, but this video caught my eye as something pretty funny and very typical of other scenarios in the IT Industry. Take a look     And yes, it is flash...

Wenming has just created a cool demo which shows how Microsoft Excel can be configured in a Windows HPC Server cluster so that different parts of the calculation can be executed on different nodes and the results brought back to the user ( in this can...