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Skype experiences so far

I have been increasingly using Skype and decided to share my experiences to date: Overall Summary Closest I have had to the perfect phone while working from home,  but still issues that I have to work around Skype delights I can sit at home with my headset on listening to...

Dubai Dreams scared me

In this post John Hagel describes the phenomena that is Dubai,  it struck a chord with me because I recently watched a BBC2 series on Dubai called ‘Dubai Dreams’ and it really scared me…. Dubai is a tiny place, its rich but its oil is running out,  to replace the...

The future of Email

In this article eWeek discusses the fact that Exchange 12 has several competitors for the Email market.  This is undeniably true however most enterprise Exchange users must inevitably be seeing the future of Email as an integrated part of a broader and integrated communication and collaboration solution.  In that context...

More Monad

Monad continues to inspire me,  I have written about it a few times and am really excited about the long term potential for automation within Windows.  However the casual observer might find it difficult to understand this potential,  in which case I recommend looking at way the Exchange team decided...

Where have I been?

Well I have been concentrating on work.  My doctors have recommenced that I spend no more than 6 hours and usually only 4 hours working at my desk, so I have been concentrating on work during those 4 hours.  Blog posting has therefore had to take a back seat, however...

Stop smoking!

My youngest daughters (twins) have been studying smoking,  Tessa has just finished her anti-smoking poster, which I wanted to share with you: Don’t smoke because people out there have died. Just because of cigarettes and people suffered from lots of illnesses. So you will get illnesses. Children can get Asthma...

Intriguing blog entry by Ray Ozzie

Graham has recently pointed me to this post by Ray Ozzie,  Graham was interested primarily in the prospect of finally getting the problem of multiple calendars resolved,  but quite a few other things struck me about this post. Ray uses MSN spaces,  not some special site designed for Microsoft employees Ray...

Big news on Office 12

At every opportunity I complained to my contacts at Microsoft about the fact that restricting full Office 2003 XML support to Office 2003 Pro was a big mistake,  and would not stimulate Office Pro sales,  instead it would slow the adoption of the suite and the use of XML in...

VMware Player – innovation in action

It’s a simple idea,  but I suspect that the VMware player is going to create disruptive ripples throughout the desktop computing industry,  we thought we liked Linux Live Distro’s well imagine being able to download a myriad different pre-build VMware environments and run them on your normal PC, (memory allowing...

Future of mainstream collaboration – Lotus/IBM style

Despite the fact that there are many specialist collaboration products that are far superior to Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange/SharePoint – IBM and Microsoft continue to be the mainstream players and certainly dominate if you consider collaboration from the “buy a platform and build on top of it” standpoint.  IBM’s...