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Over the last few days, I’ve published quite a few separate articles on Windows 7. One of my aims was to try and help identify the wood from the trees – finding the things in Windows 7 which will make a real difference in a university to make your life
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Oh, joy. A new batch of computers has arrived in the office, ready to be put out in a range of public spaces on the campus. There’s anti-theft marking to do, security screws to add, mice to clamp and that’s all before all of the actual deployment has
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Sorry, they've all gone now! Although you’ve probably already downloaded this over your megastream Internet links, I’ve laid my hands on some ‘Windows 7 Release Candidate’ DVDs just in case . Over the next week, I’ve got a series of blog posts planned
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Continuing my thread of half-term learning snacks, this one’s is shorter (only 7 minutes long), but talks about a feature which you may want to think about to help your academic staff. Here’s a scenario that may well have happened in your college: You
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Exams have just finished ( well, they have at Oxford, because it was on my local TV news station, who can’t resist shots of people in gowns with beaming smiles) . The wind down for the summer has hopefully started for some. But for many IT people in universities,
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Brief Description Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help to simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands
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If you haven’t downloaded the Windows 7 Beta yet, you might want to rush and do it today or over the weekend, as the download is only available until the 10 th February, so get your copy now , even if you don’t intend to install just yet! (MSDN and TechNet
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Another release from Microsoft to help make Office even more relevant to researchers and scientists is this (beta) release of a Word add-in to enhance the authoring of scientific and technical articles, including support for the National Library
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I'm at the IT Forum event this week - it's a week long tech-fest about current and future technologies from Microsoft. This year's event has 5,200 delegates and we're all sitting in a conference centre on the shores of Mediterranean in Barcelona ( not
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I predict that over the next few months I'm going to spending quite a bit of time thinking about, and writing about, web-based services, and the integration between traditional desktop applications and web-based applications and services. The phrase that's
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500MB of free online storage that can be private, shared or public. This has been coming for a little while, and then when it arrived, it was initially only for users in the US. But now, it has been activated for customers in the UK. And this has some
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This is a great question and one that I'm frequently asked. I was talking to a friend recently who's doing a masters in landscape architecture so you can imagine the size, variety and importance of the files she's working with. Sadly, her university gives
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I've been hearing all about Web 2.0 for quite a while now, and seen it increasingly used within education to reflect a change that's happening to the web and the way that users interact with it. No sooner have I become comfortable with that idea, then
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The race is now on, as Microsoft released the first publicly available test version of Windows Server, code-named “Longhorn” as Beta 3. The release allows you to evaluate the new features, designed to give you increased control, flexibility and protection,
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