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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
My experiments with Smart Phones continue…. My daughter has an SPV C500 which I always liked but couldn’t use because it was locked to Orange and my business SIM is Vodafone and she loves it anyway so Dad’s not that mean! Anyway an upgrade opportunity presented itself and for £29.99...
One of the things I like best about OneNote is that the development ad product management team explain (or at least summarise) the decision process they have gone through for major features and then explain how they expect these features and related features to be used. This not only benefits...
Brian Jones’ blog is fast becoming an essential read for anyone interesting in Office 12’s file formats and import and export formats. In this important post be describes the fact that Office 12 will be able to SAVE AS PDF, a very useful feature that is of course already present...