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Microsoft Office Labs This is cool, if you get a chance check it out... From the site: Welcome to Microsoft Office Labs! This site is a proving ground for ideas that come from regular employees and interns who work anywhere in Microsoft.  Most of...

So some colleagues stopped me in the hallway and asked if I could solve the following brain teaser, I wanted to share with you and see how quickly someone gets it. Ok so here is the equation... 5 + 5 + 5 = 550 What you are allowed to do is place a single...

Symantec have just released their malware report on security threats in the industry and it is great to see that results are in showing that Microsoft is the fastest in the industry to issue operating system patches to help protect customers from vulnerabilities...

Totally non-work related, although it does involve Windows Mobile... Guitar Hero III for Windows Mobile. THIS IS AWESOME!!! I love the Guitar Hero series and am constantly playing it at home, my wife is also a big fan and is one of the only games she...

I am personally very excited about this initiative " DreamSpark ". DreamSpark is a programme that puts in the hands of the students the developer & designer tools released by Microsoft. Students now get free access to tools such as Visual...

This is cool stuff, Mainsoft is releasing technology that will enable Microsoft's ASP .NET AJAX technology on Java supported platforms such as Linux. This is enabled through their new release of "Mainsoft for Java EE version 2.2". In a nutshell...

I am a big fan of the band System of a Down , and am really enjoying some of the solo work that lead singer Serj Tankian is doing. If you are in to Celine Dion though, this is definitely not music for you. However I must applaud the recent comments and...

Back in February you would have heard the interoperability principles that Microsoft announced to enable non-Microsoft products and Microsoft products better interoperability to share data and capabilities. If you missed out on that announcement, ...

Just for a bit of fun, Microsoft Research appears to be making the move in to Pop stardom a little simpler. The research being done by this team takes the vocal melodies and song that a person sings in the microphone and creates a musical accompaniment...

Ok, so from one of my previous blog posts a Linux user was having difficulties with regards to the complexities of setting Moonlight up on Linux to run Silverlight. So on his/her advice I have uploaded the video to soapbox so those who are using Flash...

Im not quite sure how I missed this one, although last month was a pretty packed one, but Search Server Express has RTM'd. For those of you who are unaware of what Search Server Express is, let me give you the quick summary. Search Server is a product...

In follow up to the case study I just posted, I wanted to share with you the video case study, talking about the Windows Server 2008 study in their own words. Please enjoy...

Some might say this is a pretty outlandish statement to make, but we recently did some work with a local customer by the name of Virtual Maps that developed and maintains local Singaporean travel portal StreetDirectory.com , to test their popular web...

Tech·Ed SEA 2008: Widen Your Possibilities Once again the doors are opening on the next Tech Ed SEA. My good friend Maria shared this with me, as this year she is the content owner for IT Pro. So I had to ask her if she was still open to suggestions...

Database expert: Oracle trails Microsoft on patch management | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-13 | By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service While I hate to see another software vendor cop a bad wrap on their initiatives in the patch management space, it makes...

Well I guess if you have not heard Microsoft is launching Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 in a location near you. For me, being in Singapore, the launch is at Suntec City Convention Center on the 26th of March 2008. If you...

Hey everyone, Wanted to point you to a report produced by a colleague of mine about Vista vulnerabilities one year after release. It is an in-depth report that compares Windows Vista against Windows XP, Linux and other OS'es. Good news is that our investments...

Social engineering is a very real problem in today's enterprise world. To get an understanding of what Social Engineering is, check out the following video. As they say the chain is only as strongest as the weakest link, so we can all do our part to ensure...

Well that certainly took a lot out of me... For Christmas I headed down to Australia to catch up with my father and my sister and her boyfriend and new born baby. Then we had new year and now my wife and I are in the midst of renovations. So I have not...

I was very lucky to get invited along to the 2nd PHP user group in Singapore by my good colleague Chris Ismael, where he presented to a packed room of PHP enthusiasts. At the event, Chris did an awesome presentation on how you could leverage many of the...

Dennis has done it, he has finished his technical opus... If you want to learn how to get this up and running his article is awesome, its step by step and really easy to follow. Check it out here, http://windowsmvp.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!80195647FE07388F...

Interesting article from Network World on the Top 5 security menace predictions of for 2008. In order Bot Evolution Web Threats (Aimed not only at unsuspecting visitors to social networking sites, such as MySpace, but any type of site or corporate web...

I challenged Dennis Chung (my counterpart in the security bytes video, and one of the smartest guys I know when it comes to IT) recently to see what kind of usage scenarios we could use Windows Server 2008 Core . For those of you who are unaware of what...

These last two weeks have been busy with announcements, and I have not had a chance to talk about any of them. So Ill be brief... For Enterprise Search we just announced two new products, Search Server 2008 and Server Server 2008 Express . Search Server...

Technorati Tags: Security , Security Bytes As our IT environments continually grow in size both on the client and server side, patch management becomes a more complex task. While at Microsoft we try to ensure that we release patches on a predictable schedule...