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Office Communications Server launches in the UK on 17th Oct

Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:34 PM by dstrange
Mark has announced the launch for OCS on his blog . If you are interested in coming along to the event in Vinopolis, you can sign up at the launch site . I notice that Carston Sorensen is speaking at it - I did some flexible working studies with Carston Read More...
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The Enterprise Learning Framework

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:25 AM by dstrange
I was chatting with my friend Colin Ashurst from Durham Business School this morning about the world of the information worker. He was saying he still thinks there needs to be more focus on helping get the technology deployed and getting people to use Read More...
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FreeForm Dynamics survey shows Office 2007 outpacing OpenOffice

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:39 PM by dstrange
Interesting survey hosted on the Register from the smart cookies at FreeForm Dynamics (check out their blog ) which I only just read. Well worth a look this. Dale Vile concludes that Microsoft Office still rules and that Saas and Web 2.0 challengers are Read More...
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Blogcast: my launch demo

Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 6:05 PM by dstrange
For the launch of Exchange Server 2007, Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, I put together this demo and have been hawking it round pretty much every event since (well that's just good reuse right?). This demo required a fair amount of Read More...
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When presentations go wrong and how to recover afterwards

Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 4:36 PM by dstrange
If any of you were at the Nottingham Technet event last week, you were a witness to probably the worst crash and burn I have ever suffered during a live presentation. I had put quite a lot of work into the presentation, believe it or not, and I had planned Read More...
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Kingston University: the future's bright with 2007 Office

Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 6:16 PM by dstrange
It was my pleasure to get to know Ian McNeice from Kingston University over the last few months. Ian is a very passionate visionary in academic IT and was one of our early adopters. He kindly agreed to an IM interview about how they are using SharePoint Read More...
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One-take Raikes: Jeff Raikes

Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 12:47 PM by dstrange
Not wishing to name drop but it was an absolute pleasure to do the demo for Jeff on stage at our customer launch event. Jeff is one of the three presidents in Microsoft and reports in to Steve Ballmer and Bill. I am a tiny flea in his org basically. It Read More...
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Delays due to resurfacing

Posted Friday, December 08, 2006 4:50 PM by dstrange
We have launched. I am happy about that and also absolutely knackered. We launched to press on the 30th at the diamond club in the Arsenal stadium. The customer launch followed on the 5th December in the QEII centre in Westminster with some 300 top customers Read More...
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Fighting the second law of thermodynamics

Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 7:38 PM by dstrange
T-13 days An understanding of physics, I always maintain, is a useful foundation for living. It helps to understand why launching a product can feel like an uphill struggle. The reason is that the entropy always increases. Put another way, the natural Read More...
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the launch is not cancelled

Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:46 AM by dstrange
My days now seem to consist of queues of wild people, frothing at the mouth running at me like some sort of marketing shaun of the dead scene screaming "cancel the launch!". People, hear me, take a chill pill, we are launching and we are on track. :-) Read More...
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How the war was won: intro

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:08 PM by dstrange
You might think it a bit cocky to start writing my memoirs of launch before the event but with my memory, I'll probably struggle to remember my name in 6 months (and so will everyone else) so I thought it best to make a start now and claim my 15 minutes Read More...
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