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...
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,...
Anyone you read my blog knows that I am a big fan of multiple monitors. In Vista support for multiple monitors is slightly more restrictive, here’s a summary: Multiple monitors attached to a single card – no problem Multiple monitors attached to multiple cards with the same driver (which normally...
A few months ago Om Malik posted some predictions about email growth by 2010 that had been published by the Radicati Group, although the raw numbers were impressive, the growth wasn’t except for the growth in the number of wireless email users. The graphic was done...
National Semiconductor recently decided to give all of their employees an iPod, according to their press release: Our employees were vital contributors to our most successful year in National’s 47-year history, and we wanted to equip them with the tools to help us create more value for our customers This...
I believe that consumerization will have a big impact on the enterprise, I for one gave up on the idea that my company would meet all my IT needs long ago, and regularly make personal investments. In general I consider my personal tools to greatly enhance my productivity, way beyond the...
A few weeks ago I had a planning session with Microsoft where we discussed requirements for the version of windows to follow Vista. During that meeting I used newsgator as an example of my ideal service, it embodies in principle – and increasingly in execution – all that I see...
I have often used the word seamless to describe some of the refinements that I have been seeking in the end user experience, although recently I have tended to substitute seamless for integrated without really knowing why. Well today I read a post by Dean Bubley titled Redefining semalessness in...