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Read this blog post from Seth Godin a while back but I was thinking about it yesterday so had to look it up again: When to start Too often we find too many reasons not to do something, rather than just getting stuck in.

Found this interesting article on the Computerworld site this morning about projects going bad: The people aspect of project failure And another interesting article here: Market for IT contractors still expanding

Microsoft’s new homepage which was previously available through a beta link is now live – www.microsoft.com. It’s very impressive from a technological point-of-view, but I don’t think it’s actually that functional. More like a case of excessive ,unnecessary AJAX that doesn’t ease the use of the site. Still it’s quite nice to look at and […]

I was told by Microsoft last week that the RTM version of Exchange would only be made available in 64bit versions – even for evaluation purposes. This came as a bit of a shock as I’ve always been under the impression that there would be a 32bit version of the software available for use in […]

A new beta version of Google ’s toolbar for the Firefox browser has brought integration of Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets service to your desktop. What this means is that you can double-click on an Excel or Word document and have it open directly in your Google Docs site. read more | digg story

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 – Learning Portal Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 can give your organization the messaging protection that you need, the anywhere access to e-mail you want, and the enterprise reliability that you deserve. Let Microsoft Learning help you develop your expertise in this advan (tags: microsoft free exchange tutorial)

Have a look at this amazing video – I’d love to know how long it took them to get this right.

 Just picked this up via the TechNet blogs feed: Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available for download on Microsoft Connect http://connect.microsoft.com . BDD 2007 provides end-to-end guidance and automation for large scale deployment of Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System. BDD 2007 RC1 is feature complete and has […]

Great news… This just in from the EHLO blog:  This morning, we signed off Exchange 2007 for release to you! We’ve bet the company on this product. Here at Microsoft, we have over 120,000 mailboxes running in production on Exchange 2007 – exceeding our SLA of 99.95% availability. Likewise, over 200 Technology Adoption Partners and Rapid […]