Microsoft needs to work extra hard to win over members of the Open Source community and their Open Source Software Lab is at the forefront of that work. One of their recent proposals is to effectively open up their entire research plan to peer review to make sure that they...
Despite having access to a wide variety of collaboration tools, email and IM continue to be the tools I use most often, in particular I struggle to use collaborative workspaces efficiently. Why do I keep using email? It works great offline I can keep an offline replica on all of...
I have read a few posts recently – this is the best one – on the subject of banning homework. I am personally in favour for two reasons: I think it switches many kids off school Most of the creative project work kids do ends up being at home on...
I have been playing around with SharePoint 2007 for a while now and I think I am most impressed by the power that it puts into the hands of IT savvy end users, to create line of business solutions and to enhance these solutions further by integration with Office 2007. ...
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...
I personally love IM and when I am at my desk I use it probably 10 times more than I use Email and I shudder to think how many emails I would need to send in order to iterate to the information I want by passing emails back and forth...
Ricardo from El Salvador just emailed me asking me how I managed to install the Palm Desktop on a Tablet PC. Palm say it’s not supported, but it’s worked fine for me, once I managed to get it installed, which seems to work fine provided you follow these instructions: uninstall...
I have just installed Vista RC1 – build 5600 – and want to use the trick I posted a while back that allows me to disconnect from a remote desktop connection to my Tablet, without my tablet locking (i.e. presenting the login screen). On XP to do this I would...
Although I work from home and tend to be always connected to the Internet, I still find that I really like to use products that allow me to work off-line. Not only is the performance often better, but it’s more reliable and I still spend a couple of hours a...
I am a real fan of Windows PowerShell, not least because of the quality of the team who have worked on it and I have blogged about it a few times before. I was disappointed that it’s not pervasive in Vista although I know all about the need to make...