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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:34 PM

Made me smile :-) Ballmer at Mix

At Microsoft's Mix08 event in Las Vegas, Steve Ballmer did a Q&A which was just great to watch. He went head to head with former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki (wih MacBook in the obligatory brown envelope). The most amusing bit starts 26minutes into
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:15 PM

How to find UK Training on Microsoft Technologies

This has come up a lot with my ISVs lately. Time for a step by step: Start at http://www.microsoft.com/Learning/training/find/FindCourse.mspx   Decide which product you want training on: Browse the results - note some are classroom, some are online
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:59 PM

Windows HPC Server 2008 March CTP Available

Apologies for the delay - meant to blog about this (and lots of other stuff) much earlier in the month. We released a new Community Tech Preview of Windows HPC Server 2008 this month. The good news is that you can join the HPC beta today, download an
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:45 PM

Understanding the differences between the versions of Visual Studio 2008

Working for Microsoft has many benefits - an obvious one being I don't have to pay for Visual Studio, which means I simply install the top of the range SKU. Hence I am running Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite (catchy isn't it :)). But... the
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:35 PM

Wow - WPF meets the Enterprise!

One of the challenges we have had when working with UK ISVs on Windows Presentation Foundation is to get them to think about the user interface as anything other than a gray canvas onto which you drop lots of labels, text boxes and buttons. It has been
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:07 PM

Windows HPC Server meets video games

I have previously posted on High Performance Computing and what it may mean to ISVs. Currently two of my ISVs are getting very active with the beta of Windows HPC Server 2008 in the area of Financial Services which is exciting - but not nearly as exciting
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Monday, March 17, 2008 2:12 PM

Slides for SPA2008

Just a swift link to my slides on "Does Architecture Help?"
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