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Random catch up 22nd Feb

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:21 PM by dstrange
Skydrive comes out of beta Beta is over for http://skydrive.live.com and the new version increases the storage by 4Gb to 5Gb! I use this to put my presentations in on the right column on the blog - easy to imbed the link with the icon Interoperability Read More...
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Random roundup of Office news 18th Jan 2008

Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 3:28 PM by dstrange
Office Quiz I'm liking Ian Moulster's quiz on Office 2007 .  How many can you get - even I struggled with some of them.  He's going to publish the answers next week.. Progress of Office Open XML We are busy preparing for the Ballot Resolution Read More...
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Random roundup post Christmas

Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:07 PM by dstrange
Hope you had a great Christmas and happy New Year.  I certainly did not work during the break so here is a collection of stuff that I thought was interesting in my inbox when I got back to work today. "A Santa without Excel is like a scrawny Read More...
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Random roundup 20th August 2007

Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 6:34 PM by dstrange
sorry been a busy week but here's the wheat without the chaff - frankly I was bored by most of the stuff in my inbox this week but there a few glimmers here: Office 2007 sp1 has gone out to beta testers. Seems to be stable and does make things feel a Read More...
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Random roundup July 19th 2007

Posted Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:07 PM by dstrange
things I read today.. New ways to sell Office Interesting article with some good quotes from Chris Cap about the future. "We're very happy to be the leading vendor in the space and we want to continue to be the leading vendor in the space," he said. "We Read More...
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BT Vision and Microsoft TV

Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 2:48 PM by dstrange
I met up with my friend Julian Kirby-Johnson today for a catch up on what he's doing. Julian works on the BT Vision project - he's the project manager for the delivery of the integrated solution to BT, working into the US. The BT Vision product is developed Read More...
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Random roundup..23rd May 2007

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:31 PM by dstrange
I feel I should wait until the weekend to do random roundups but just back from holiday and there is too much stacked up so here it is early for once :-) Study shows open source devs don't want GPL 3.0 to enforce patents The ongoing debate over patent Read More...
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Random Roundup 22nd April 2007

Posted Sunday, April 22, 2007 2:03 PM by dstrange
This week's inbox detritus for your viewing pleasure.. Taxis Our free New Day taxi campaign got some good coverage at itpro , vnu and tech.co.uk (thanks for the quotes guys) as well as a slightly painfully contrived article criticising us for polluting Read More...
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Random roundup - Friday 13th April

Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 7:42 PM by dstrange
pretty boring week this week IMHO but here's what flushed through my inbox..have a good weekend :-) New Lotus Notes Migration suite released Some of this has been available for a while I think but there a few new things and now the transporter suite is Read More...
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Random roundup 7th April

Posted Saturday, April 07, 2007 12:38 PM by dstrange
This week, things that have crossed my inbox which i though were interesting - you might too: The Knights that say NdNo A new advertising campaign has launched called " New Day, New Office ". Microsoft internally, in keeping with it's obsession with reducing Read More...
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News round up

Posted Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:52 PM by dstrange
Things that crossed my inbox this week which might be of interest: Nintendo and Xbox 360 Wii all over Sony According to preliminary retail figures for February from researcher NPD Group Inc., U.S. retailers sold 335,000 Wiis, 228,000 Xbox 360s and 127,000 Read More...
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Random roundup

Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:11 PM by dstrange
Some random things I've come across recently that might be of interest: The General availability launch on the 30th Jan went well. Have a look at their Leonardo DaVinci Vista application which enables you to browse the original notebooks - one owned by Read More...
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