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Do you downgrade Vista to XP?

Chatting with a few UK Partners last week about whether they are installing Vista with positive results, many said they were waiting for SP1  or they (or their customers) were “stubbornly sticking to XP” or have “actually asked for downgrade”.
In balance, I got a large number of Partners who have successfully installed Vista and are enjoying the benefits - most […]

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eOpen: fundamental changes to the way you manage volume licensing

Since 6th December 2007,  the Microsoft eOpen website provides those with Volume license agreements access to product downloads and purchase of Media Kits. The thinking behind this is to reduce the deployment lead-time (available 24/7 for downloading and ordering) as well as fulfilment costs. This means that you won’t need to contact your existing distributor/supplier to […]

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Irish Events: Deploying Vista and Office 2007

“For organisations considering the deployment of either Windows Vista or the 2007 Office system - or both, this interactive training session has been specially designed for Technical decision makers, IT implementers and Infrastructure architects, to show how straight-forward  deploying these technologies can be.
The session will update participants on the proven business, management and technical benefits […]

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Fax in Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging

“We now have Exchange 2007 and AD installed and I have been asked to look at Winfax. I think Winfax is quite old now and think that Exchange will allow for faxing of some kind? Do you know much about fax and Exchange and how easy/ good a system there is to receive faxes from […]

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Twittervision

Hat doft (or curtsey) to Tim for this one. I’ve still not gotten into Twitter despite everyone else blogging and raving about it.
But how cool is this app for all those Twitterers and Twitter wanna-be’s?
Think I might have to check it out…
… and yes I can see the Facebook logo in the top corner and I’m still […]

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Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 Legacy File Formats Disabled

“…by installing Office 2003 Service Pack 3, the ability to open and save older legacy file formats will be blocked.”
More on this on Viral’s post.
Office 2003 SP3 - The Facts and Fiction

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