Standards Blog provides some useful information on the Workplace Office client. The context is a series of articles looking at various ODF clients of which Workplace Managed Client is one. I’m pleased to see that IBM are now picking up speed in their attempts to engage with their community through...
For me telecommuting means I am able to work, so it’s wonderful and liberating. I do miss the office though and the sort of team dynamics that develops only when you work with people day in day out for years. For anyone contemplating teleworking I have only a little advise:...
Microsoft reveal a lot of useful info about terminal services improvements in Longhorn in this chat, I can see myself making a lot of use of this on my lab servers at home as well as for customers: Application Publishing with client-side file type associations Seamless Windows A Terminal Server...
Just by chance I came across a vision document for the Chandler open source Personal Information Management (PIM) client application which has a very innovative design and ambitious plans for sharing, extensibility and cross-platform support. Even if you have no interest in Chandler as a product I recommend you have...
Over the last few years I have been much more conscious of stress, I am able to detect it and don’t tend to miss the symptoms hiding away behind the adrenalin fuelled activity. I just came across this article which provides a very shot, but very insightful analysis of some...
Microsoft’s direct push technology for delivering email, calendar and contacts from Exchange 2003 SP2/Exchange 2007 to Windows Mobile 5 devices seems to be pretty simple, functional and elegant, even better it’s being licensed for use with other mobile device operating systems. For more details this blog is a great place to start.
Watch the Microsoft demos and the offline capabilities of SharePoint look really slick, but dig into the details and you find that it’s not as rosy as you first thought, in fact in some areas, like Excel 2007 integration with SharePoint 2007 it’s actually worse than in the 2003 products. ...
This is a great article if you want to get a good overview of the features of Exchange 2007, these are my favourites: Voice Messaging System Voice mail can now be stored in the mailbox and accessed from a unified inbox in Outlook, Outlook Web Access, on a mobile device,...
One of the more interesting business trends is increasing mobility and how it will change many lives, it’s certainly changed mine allowing me to work from home, out walking, from cafes and restaurants and hotels. So I was pleased to find this very interesting open survey on this critical dimension of...
I just read a great post that describes some of the challenges that face project managers. The basic premise is that it’s almost impossible to control a project because there are just too many people making too many decisions, but don’t give up hope the article provides a coping strategy. ...