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  • Corporates need to be on the "Twitter Ball" on Oct 12, 2009

    A recent personal experience helped bring home to me the importance of the latest social networking tools to corporate business.The road to completion of a car scrappage deal on behalf of my Father in Law was proving a long and winding one - with bar...

  • Windows 7E becomes 7EU on Oct 12, 2009

    With the addition of U for U-turn of course, as Microsoft rapidly changed their position last month to allow the European edition of Windows 7 to do an in-place upgrade from Vista instead of requiring a full Rip and Replace approach. To overcome the...

  • Windows 7E (Europe) - a double edged sword? on Jul 23, 2009

    Having recently been to a Microsoft Partner event in Reading to look at the launch of Windows 7 it has become clear that the European legislation regarding browser inclusion in the OS will definitely mean Europe gets a different version of Windows 7...

  • Waiting for Windows 7? on May 20, 2009

    This week Microsft have made the Release Candidate of Windows 7 available for download so it won't be long now before a full release date is announced and machines start shipping with this new operating system. (You can get the RC here if you have a...

  • Feeling a bit of a Twit? on Mar 20, 2009

    Well if you're not then maybe you should be. The latest social networking tools are all about micro blogging and the most prominent is Twitter. If you have never been into FaceBook, MySpace or perhaps more appropriately for the business user, Linked...

  • SBS 2008 Premium install on Mar 6, 2009

    I've just spent the last couple of days doing my first SBS 2008 install and to make it really tough I decided that this would be a dual virtual server configuration using HyperV.The initial set up went very well and apart from a minor glitch caused b...

  • Annoying splash screen on remote desktop on Mar 4, 2009

    If you are the proud owner of a Dell server you may have already found that running a remote desktop or terminal service session to it requires that the Dell desktop image has to load before you can log on. This is a pretty big file so it slows thing...