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Congratulations to Jonathan Noble, PowerShell MVP

Congratulations to Jonathan Noble (@jonoble), who has just been announced as a Microsoft Most...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 07/03/2009

Deep Zoom Michael Jackson Tribute

A Microsoft partner, www.shoothill.com, have produced a Michael Jackson Deep Zoom for MSN, which is...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 07/01/2009

Still on the Windows 7 Beta? You need to move to the RC by 1st July

Starting July 1st, the Beta will start to reboot every 2 hrs and expire Aug 1st. Want to download...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 06/24/2009

Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable: Windows 7 Application Compatibility: Your Questions Answered (Part 1)

Date: Thursday, June 18 Time: 11:00am Pacific Time Location:...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 06/08/2009

Can you Bing it? Apparently, yes you can!!!

It came as quite a shock to me when Bing was announced internally.  It seemed...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 06/04/2009

General Availability and RTM Dates for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Release To Manufacturing (RTM) is an important milestone on the path to GA. We anticipate that we’ll...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 06/04/2009

The Road to Windows 7

Having literally just upgraded from Windows 7 beta to RC, which was a thoroughly pain-free and easy...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 06/03/2009

IT Professional Top Licensing FAQs May 2009

Q) Can I downgrade Microsoft Windows Vista Business or Ultimate purchased pre-installed on a new PC?...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 06/02/2009

Software Assurance Benefits for Volume Licensing Agreements

As much as I tried, there just wasn't any way of making the title of this post more exciting,...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 05/28/2009

TechNet Conference goes Virtual on June 19th

The very first TechNet Virtual Conference will be going live on June 19th 2009. It features a...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 05/26/2009

Download Windows 7 Release Candidate now

The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is now available to download for everyone, and is available...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 05/05/2009

The UK Community Council

Over the past few months, the UK TechNet team has been working on a little project which has just...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 05/05/2009

When and where can you get hold of Windows 7 RC?

If you have access to MSDN or TechNet Plus, you will be able to start downloading the Windows 7 RC...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 05/01/2009

AVAILABLE NOW: Business Productivity Online Services Suite (BPOS)

What is BPOS? BPOS provides enterprise-class email, intranet, and instant messaging available via...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 04/30/2009

ITinsecurity

We have just launched a security “quiz” using DeepZoom technology.  You have to zoom into...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 04/24/2009

A no-nonsense guide to Software Assurance benefits

In these times, there are several approaches that organisations are taking to ensure survival. One...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 04/07/2009

Citrix iForum 2009 Conference

Citrix and Microsoft joint solutions are based on tight integration of Citrix solutions with Window...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 04/02/2009

Windows 2008 Server Foundation launched

  Windows Server 2008 Foundation is a cost-effective, easy-to-deploy, and reliable server...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 04/01/2009

IT Professional Top Licensing FAQs – March 09

IT Pro Top FAQs – February 09 Q) What's the difference between Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/30/2009

4 Technologies to Boost Business in the Recovery

Kishore Swaminathan, chief scientist at Accenture, points out in an article in Computer Weekly that...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/26/2009

ExecTweets

Microsoft sponsors Tweet third party site for business users

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/24/2009

Doing more with less: CIOs disclose their plans

An article today on silicon.com highlights the business and technology priorities The headline of...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/24/2009

The UK Software Management and Licensing Conference

Software Asset Management has a lot of negative perceptions. In fact, we see a lot of customers...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/23/2009

Training and Certification Offers for your Teams

The learning team just shared this information which should be useful for you and your teams:...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/19/2009

Have Your Say - TechNet Virtual Conference Content

TechNet UK will be launching a Virtual Conference in May. There is so much great content to cover...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/16/2009

Microsoft Executives’ views of now and the future

With time as they are, I always find it really interesting to hear from our executives on their...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/16/2009

Do you need a CIO or do you need an IT Director?

Really interesting piece on silicon.com about this topic, including the difference between the two,...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/13/2009

Microsoft Investing in Environmental Sustainability for the future

After settling at my desk this morning and opening up my inbox to review my overnight email, the...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/12/2009

Your Opinion Counts: How you helped changed Windows 7

Something we often get criticised for is that you take the time to give us feedback on beta products...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/07/2009

Windows for your Business blog

Thanks to Alex for pointing the Windows for your Business blog out to me There are several...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/06/2009

5 Things that Might Surprise you from Microsoft

Viral just pointed this out to our team….It’s an article from PC World that highlights 5 web...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/06/2009

3 IT Projects that you can get signed off according to silicon.com

Steve Ranger has done an interesting article on Silicon.com based on IDC’s prediction that IT...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/05/2009

Business & IT Goals disconnected?

I noticed on vnunet.com yesterday that an IT Governance Institute (ITGI). study suggested there are...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/04/2009

Microsoft Vision 2019

I Really enjoyed Mark’s take on the vide that Microsoft have recently released about it’s vision for...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 03/03/2009

CIO Scorecard Fosters Strategic Performance Management Culture

Microsoft IT (MS IT) falls under strict corporate scrutiny to demonstrate its business value and...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/25/2009

Top IT Professional Licensing FAQs – February 09

Q) Can I downgrade Microsoft Windows Vista Business or Ultimate purchased pre-installed on a new PC?...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/23/2009

Invest your way to success with up to 10% discount

Need to start saving money today? Well that's an ovious question and even more obviosu answer. The...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/20/2009

240% Unified Communications Return for Microsoft

Great post from Brett who pointed out the new Microsoft IT Cost Savings whitepaper which outlines...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/17/2009

When Organisations Implement Something that Makes Sense (and even better when its yours)

Microsoft UK is no different from any organisation at present in its attempt to shave off costs...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/12/2009

Tonight: Windows 7 Virtual Roundtable—To the Beta and Beyond

Thought I would blog about this as it’s in keeping with the Windows 7 theme for the week: Later...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/12/2009

Windows 7 through the eyes of a real person – Day 5 (the grand finale)

Huge thanks to Rich for all the time he put into this. Big thumbs up! Realised that I’m rolling with...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/10/2009

Windows 7 through the eyes of a real person – Day 4

Day 4 in the Windows 7 Diary: After talking about it at work, I decided that the “Show Desktop”...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/09/2009

Windows 7 through the eyes of a real person – Day 3

Libraries: Libraries looked like an interesting feature from what I’d seen PDC’ers saying and they...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/06/2009

Windows 7 through the eyes of a real person – Day 2

Here’s the next instalment from Rich’s Windows 7 diary: I’m in! Back from work so time to fire up...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/05/2009

Windows 7 through the eyes of a real person

Alex in my team has been tweeting about Windows 7 a fair amount since she made the leap herself last...

Author: Georgina Lewis Date: 02/04/2009

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