Catch a load of some recent screenshots of what the new version of Windows will look like.
Long Zheng makes some comments on these latest images of Windows 7 M1.
Windows 7 Video
Wikipedia Article
When I heard about Windows 7 (Codename ‘Vienna’) I heard it was going to have a pretty different interface to what we have seen […]
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Like Steve, I attended one of Microsoft’s CRM launch events today and found out something interesting:
If you have Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Small Business Edition and want to upgrade to version 4.0, there is no equivalent edition as such.
There are three editions within the CRM 4.0 family:
Workgroup server - includes and supports a MAXIMUM of […]
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Charles Van Heusen recently posted the latest information on Small Business Server. Check it out here.
Also, David Mackie talks about the practicalities of deploying SBS ‘Cougar’ in the real world and questions the integration of System Centre Essentials 2007 - well worth a read.
Thinking of migrating from SBS 2000/2003 to 2008? Consider using Jeff Middleton’s […]
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It’s not something that’s on my wish list to Father Christmas but I’ll be interested to know if there is a Tech Guarantee programme due to be introduced for SBS 2003 and Windows Server 2003. Something like this would help get customers using great technology now without them choosing to tread water until the release of […]
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Lots if you’ve subscribed to a fair number of Microsoft blogs! Well here’s one more.
The Service Pack (SP) will now form part of your automatic updates, but for those who have disabled this and want your own copy to do with what you will, here’s the direct download link. Don’t forget that you’ll need to […]
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Here is the situation regarding Microsoft Office Accounting so far in the UK…
Currently the product is only available from Microsoft as a download in three different versions (www.msofficeaccounting.co.uk):
Express -which is a free version available to anyone to download for free
Professional - 60-day free trial or £149.99 (exc. VAT) for a full copy (3-user license is […]
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For those who have already trialled the software or are interested in finding out more about HP’s version of Microsoft Home Server, you can check out some live online demonstrations to help understand it better.
Dates, times, and experts:
Thursday November 8th 4pm-5pm (PT) Rick Doherty
Friday November 9th 1pm-2pm (PT) Rob Enderle
Tuesday November 27th 10am-11am (PT) Paul […]
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The Mr. Busy Campaign will be bidding SBSCers in UK and Ireland a hurried goodbye as he gets replaced by three new campaigns.
Here’s what the Mr. Busy campaign achieved:
101 Partners took part in the campaign within five weeks
24,000 end users were reached
98% of Partners told Microsoft that they would like to see more of these […]
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In the last few days I’ve had some good meetings. Interestingly, both featured DemoShowcase which is a set of 24 predefined customer scenarios which you can customise in a virtual machine environment.
After chatting to the London IT Pro Group, I showed them how easy it is to talk about how five different applications in just over […]
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On Tuesday (28/08/07), Microsoft announced the plans for the third service pack (SP3) for Windows XP as a roll up of all the hot fixes and patches including security updates, out of band releases, and hotfixes. This is standard practice to release a service pack as a release nears end-of-life. There are no new features in Windows XP SP3, […]
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