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We went to TechFest last night, the big geek-fest that Microsoft puts on for all the attendees to TechEd. The event was held at the St James theatre and featured a couple of comedians and a few bands. The highlight was local band, The Feelers – they were awesome live. Here’s a video from last […]

The second day at TechEd was pretty good. The best sessions I attended were the Exchange 2007 ones. Charlie Chung gave a flawless demo of Exchange 2007 and its integration with PowerShell. The worst demo of the day came from Softricity whose session I was really looking forward to. Their presentation was all marketing based […]

Well the first day of TechEd 2006 is over. The keynote speech from TradeMe’s Rowan Simpson was the most interesting. The most painful was the dreadful MC,  Jaquie Brown – if you’ve ever been to a comedian that wasn’t funny, you’ll know the feeling. That horrible, painful feeling you get when the presenter on stage […]

I’m up in Auckland for the next few days to attend the number one geek-fest that is known as TechEd! I flew up early this morning to catch up with Damian and Shelley, and got to meet the new edition to their family – 2 month old, Lola. The next three days are going to be full-on, […]

By the way, this post and the previous post were both written with the awesome new blogging tool released by the Windows Live team. It’s called (imaginatively) Windows Live Writer, and you can read more details and download it for free from here: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!… I haven’t been able to fault it yet – it seems […]

Microsoft employee, Ryan Rogers, has posted a blog entry asking for the public’s thoughts as to whether Microsoft should release an open-source version of Windows. Now I’m not sure whether Ryan is that high up the food chain to be able to influence this decision, but he seems to think it’s  a good idea. Read […]

The rumour mill is buzzing around Microsoft’s plans to release their own portable media player which will compete directly with the iPod. I’m losing track about what is fact or fiction here so take the following with a pinch of salt, bu this is what we know so far: The media player will be released […]

Part of my feed reading this morning lead me to sign up with Yahoo! Mail so that I could test out their new beta mail product. So I signed up with a Yahoo! NZ address of stuart.maxwell@yahoo.co.nz but this didn't allow me to switch over to the new beta. I changed my location to UK, […]

Several sites are reporting that a Microsoft France site was hacked and defaced. The site is currently down so it appears as though Microsoft have taken it offline to firefight. A mirror of the defaced site can be found here: zone-h.org.

Big news around the internet at the moment is that Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft to work for a startup company called PodTech.net. As you can probably tell from the name, PodTech.net are a podcasting or vlogging company. This is a big loss to Microsoft as Scoble put a human face to the massive corporation. […]