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December 12, 2008

Microsoft Office Web Applications FAQ

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12December

I’m catching up on my blogs, and one that I’ve missed reading for a while is Sarah Perez on Channel 10. I could probably spend a happy half day simply linking to stories she’s been posting over the last month… so do yourself a favor and subscribe to her if you haven’t already. Back in early November she posted a quick Q & A about the recently announced Office Web (coming next year...

December 12, 2008

So this is what a startup looks like

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Survived my first week at nsquared. Initial signs are good :-) Rather than prattle on about how awesome my new employer is, how we’re going to take over the world, how I’m the working with an exceptional team etc, etc, I thought I’d share a few insights into the company. nsquared is a startup (I’ve never worked for a startup before) and as such it’s going through changes quickly...

December 8, 2008

Live Services Jumpstart Day 2

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08December

Another brain expanding day! I was so impressed with the event that I checked my impressions with a few other attendees – I wanted to make sure it wasn’t just a case of me being so naive about this stuff, that any new information was a revelation :-) But no, there were many others in the same boat. Day 2 was a little different. Where as yesterday focussed on what is possible now (with all the...

December 7, 2008

Live Services Jumpstart

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07December

I attended day 1 of the Live Services Jumpstart today. Fortuitously this was also my first day working for nsquared (I’d coincidentally registered for the event separate to organising my start date). I haven’t really been following the Live Services side of Microsoft of late, so today was a real eye opener. Although I was aware of many of the Live Services, it wasn’t until we drilled into...

December 3, 2008

SkyDrive goes to 25GB

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03December

As the SkyDrive team announced yesterday, the online storage capacity has been increased to 25GB (from 5GB). At least we know there’s some benefit coming out of all those containers :-) As the team mentioned (but Life Hacker did a much better job of explaining), there’s also a bunch of new features, including the ability to download entire folders as Zip files. I’ve had problems accessing...

November 30, 2008

Microsoft BizSpark, Action Pack and Empower programs

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30November

I’m always intrigued when some development companies claim they can’t afford to pay the software licenses for the tools they use. That is, after agreeing to pay salaries, rent, office fit-outs, hardware and other expenses they somehow can’t stump up the cash for operating system licenses and proper developer tools. The usual recourse is to either ‘bend the rules of licensing’ or pursue...

November 29, 2008

Wired article on Ray Ozzie

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29November

Microsoft has definitely turned around. PDC was the proof that the company is back on track. Not that it was necessarily off track – since they’ve been working on it for the last 3 years – but the lack of communication certainly wasn’t inspiring anyone. What exactly has caused this transformation? Answer: Ray Ozzie. Less than a year ago (just after the MVP Summit) I was gravely...

November 29, 2008

Why I don’t read newspapers

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I don’t usually read the papers. Or even keep up with current affairs. In general I’m pretty out of touch with what’s going on in the world. But yesterday I bought the weekend papers. I’m on holidays, and thought it’d be nice to catch up on world events. What a mistake! Nothing but page after page of depressing economic, political and social doom and gloom. As I read the articles I...

November 28, 2008

PERSONAL: Holidays

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28November

I finished up at Elcom yesterday. I’m on a week’s break, before I start my next role at nsquared on 8 Dec. So, what will I do for the week? Well, no plans to go anywhere – I’ll be staying right here at home, relaxing and catching up on things. Here’s a few of the ‘chores’ I’ve got planned: Get a massage – it’s been ages since I had a massage (DONE: 29/11/08) Tax returns...

November 23, 2008

Microsoft advertising spend: $1.2B

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23November

It’s easy to be impressed (or horrified) by big numbers, and 1.2 billion is certainly a big number when it comes to dollars. That’s what Microsoft spent on advertising last year. Apple by contrast spent $486M (as Lindsay Blakely reported). But forget the actual dollars, instead focus on percentages. As Todd Bishop helpfully points out in his excellent analysis, Microsoft spend between 2% and...

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