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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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Acquisition of FAST - what the analysts said

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:01 PM by dstrange
In a $1.2bn purchase, Microsoft is offering to acquire the Norwegian enterprise search company Fast Search and Transfer (FAST).  This is being reviewed as a very positive move by the industry analysts as it more or less completes our end to end search Read More...
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Can you all update your sections of the document and email it back to me?

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:59 PM by dstrange
Professional life teaches you to make adjustments to your normal mode of working at times.  Sometimes you have to adapt your style and consciously do things differently.  If you've ever worked in a big blue chip, you will be familiar with this Read More...
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WSS 3.0 will be a separate download

Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:33 AM by dstrange
We announced today that we're pulling the WSS 3.0 bits out of Windows Server 2008 RC1 onward. No real change here, it will still be available free as a download and no change to the licensing but WSS won't be on the Server media any more. Not exactly Read More...
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Training on SharePoint and InfoPath

Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 1:00 PM by dstrange
I've decided to blog smaller items a bit more often as they occur to me so here's a question I answered today which might help others - where can I get some training on SharePoint and InfoPath? Good place to start is the online training at office online Read More...
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Davis Langdon MOSS 2007 story

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:06 PM by dstrange
Construction consultants at Davis Langdon are renowned for delivering high-profile, high-value projects. They are involved in a number of well-known projects such as the London Olympics in 2012. The company’s United Kingdom operation provides consultancy 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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It's not what you know, it's who you know

Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:46 PM by dstrange
It's the first week of the new financial year at Microsoft, typically the time when we all get our new objectives, people move jobs and when the music stops, we try to remap the landscape. Every coffee shop on campus is jammed with people chatting and Read More...
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Office Live - Live interview

Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:36 PM by dstrange
As Office Live comes out of beta, I thought it would be good to catch up on the latest news. Today I'm joined by Mr Office Live himself - Tim Kimber to tell us more: Hi Tim, perhaps you'd like to introduce yourself and what you do? I'm the Office Live Read More...
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Blogcast: Protect and manage content

Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 6:46 PM by dstrange
I must confess I was a bit hungover when I recorded this one so I do suggest you run it speeded up (ctrl-shift-G) to cut down my pause for thought gaps. This really is a very important topic so I apologise for not sounding more exuberant while demoing Read More...
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Better decisions faster: Blogcast demo

Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:08 PM by dstrange
Continuing my series of blogcast demos, this week I am talking about business intelligence , showing how customers can derive more value from their data and turn information into insight. Things I cover in this demo: Report Center in SharePoint Server Read More...
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Project Collaboration demo blogcast

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:59 PM by dstrange
Here is my latest demonstration: project collaboration . What I'm showing is the common scenario of a few people just wanting to work together on a project and get more from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and some of the desktop applications. 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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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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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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