The Not-So-Rapid Blog :: Microsoft

Before I used Notes, 15 years ago today...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:57:22 +0100

Today is an important anniversary.

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The Best Ever Office?

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:19:47 +0100

What was the best version of Office?

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Exchange 2010: Forwards to the... past?

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:42:31 +0100

The rather excellent You Had Me At EHLO blog has a good article on Exchange 2010 losing Single Instance Storage (SIS).

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Houston, Tranquility Base here, the E-Mail has landed

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:47:37 +0100

Houston, Tranquility Base here, the E-Mail Has Landed...

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Microsoft's big gamble may not have paid off

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:15:21 +0100

Microsoft made a big gamble when they decided not to ship IE in European versions of Windows., It looks like it didn't pay off...

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Whaaaaaa? (Or: How to contradict yourself)

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:52:02 +0100

Did Microsoft consider SQL Server as the storage engine for Exchange Server? Yes! Did it work? Yes! Shall we use it? No!?!?

Hmmmm.

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Microsoft's Spoiler: We're shipping alpha software

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:50:57 +0100

Microsoft released alphas of Office 14 products, including Exchange Server 14, in an effort to distract people from announcements at IBM's LotusSphere.

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Removing mail access immediately

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:15:29 +0100

An interesting article on removing mail access immediately for users on Exchange makes for interesting thinking for Notes and Domino Administrators too...

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IM not making great inroads into UK business...

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:41:43 +0100

Ars Technica has an interesting article on Instant Messaging takeup in UK business.

Basically, it's poor.

It seems that neither SameTime nor Office Communicator have made a compelling case to most businesses - which is a great shame.

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Turns out Microsoft KNEW that Windows was frustrating...

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:18:11 +0100

Via Techdirt, I found this great email from Bill Gates.

It turns out that Microsoft knew that Windows was frustrating. It was being pointed out from the very top.

In 2003.

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Full Disclosure and Open Source

Mon, 19 May 2008 21:05:48 +0100

A follow up on the Debian OpenSSL issue.

This post is actually based around something that got me very angry when I stumbled across it in March, but I figured I'd let it go.

But the recent events force my hand, and I have to just say it now...

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Microsoft's new open stance

Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:38:50 +0200

The "first fruit" of Microsoft's new open stance could well be here...

They're going to make IE8 use standards-compliant rendering as default.

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Possibly not the intended effect...

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:54:44 +0200

Peter O'Kelly pointed out a video on YouTube for IBM Symphony, and then quoted Bill Gates., Sadly, I think this didn't make me think what he wanted me to think...

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The Microsoft Sync Framework, Android, Google Gears, Lotus Notes, and taking things with you everywhere

Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:54:59 +0200

With possibly the longest title I've ever written, here's a quick brain-dump of the news about developments in off-line working.

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Clipboard Complexities & Software Failures

Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:24:08 +0200

When fixing problems that a tiny minority of users experience, you risk breaking something for every user. Unfortunately, this means software with long feature lists is often broken...

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IBM's Symphony is just a warm-up act

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:58:46 +0200

IBM released Lotus Symphony today - here's my take on this.

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Three Exchange Server installs and you're out!

Fri, 25 May 2007 10:35:47 +0100

Jerry Fishenden - Microsoft's key Government liaison in the UK - has said that the IT industry needs to get its house in order with regards to failing workers...

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Quickies: Palm, OpenOffice.Org's Virus, Office Documents Considered Harmful

Thu, 24 May 2007 09:53:45 +0100

More quickies... This time:

* Palm are finally set to stop using Palm OS

* OpenOffice.Org's suite finds its first virus

* Microsoft considers legacy Office document formats harmful

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Well, that didn't take long at all...

Mon, 14 May 2007 18:10:55 +0100

Just last Thursday, I created a new tag for The Doghouse. And five days later, Microsoft goes into it., That's amazingly fast, even for Microsoft...

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Clustering is hard

Tue, 8 May 2007 13:54:43 +0100

Clustering is remarkably difficult. Here's a brief example of what I mean by that...

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What is important to who?

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:01:46 +0100

Even Dell is offering Windows XP pre-installed now., Which begs the question - what or who is most important in the industry?

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My faith is restored (ODF/OOXML)

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:39:41 +0100

I had my reservations about which way the UK would fall when it came to OOXML's ISO submission., Looks like their response was short, but incredibly pertinent., Phew!

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Dogfooding, and the tragedy of IBM/Lotus for the SMB

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:08:12 +0100

Charles Robinson has an excellent article on dogfooding, which I'd like to expand upon...

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The Market Has Spoken

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:41:38 +0100

I can't help but notice an interesting sequence of events as I prepare to buy a new PC...

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