How many Microsoft employees does it take to fix a lightbulb?

Feel free to insert your own punchline in the comment section 🙂 In this post I wanted to highlight how many people at Microsoft are all pulling together to make Vista the best possible product for our customers and partners.  At last count there were 24,000 installs of Vista being run by Microsoft employees.  We’re…

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Snakes on a Plane – but no internet!!!???

  I read this this today… Can’t believe they have made the decision to not offer internet on planes.  Tim Farrar who is president of a satellite comms company gave this enlightened quote: “I don’t see a future for global inflight broadband,” Am I the only one who thinks this is mad? Read the full…

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Windows Vista Backup

A bit off the BI track, but I wanted to draw your attention to Matt’s blog, where he’s written an excellent post about the backup facilities in the upcoming Windows Vista.  The backup is called “CompletePC Backup” and it has loads of cool features which Matt goes into more detail about. The thing that grabs…

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Partner event for BI Collaboration

We’re running a BI collaboration event on the 25th July which will allow partners to find out more about the opportunities that Business Intelligence can offer partners and how to take advantage of them. It’ll also provide a great chance to network with other like-minded partners and forge strategic alliances.  The event takes place at our Thames Valley…

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New Name Decided!

Thanks for the suggestion by Tony Soper for my Blog’s title.  I was so taken with Magnum B.I. that I changed the name straight away!

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Welcome one and all

Well hello, and welcome to my brand new blog! My plan for this little slice of internet real estate is to provide opinion, comment and information relating to SQL Server, Business Intelligence and things that I find generally interesting in technology. As you can tell by the current title of the blog, I am currently…

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