Can you trust Azure?

So The Register has a story about how Microsoft is edging closer to delivering it’s cloud based system, Azure. It…

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And I had thought it was some marketing stunt…

So yesterday I got an excited email from Virgin’s Velocity Rewards Program*. It enthusiastically read: Preston, surprise! You’ve turned gold!…

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Aside – Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac OS X

I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for the Mac for several years now – in fact, when I originally started using…

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20 years…

I remember mentioning earlier this year that there are few events I remember in stunning detail. Tiananmen Square, the Challenger…

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Virtualisation as an exercise in MTBF

When IT people discuss Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), the most common focus is on disk drives. We all know…

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Maybe it’s just as well…

…that the folks over at OpenOffice have concentrated so much on mimicking interfaces rather than trying to come up with…

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Why you should love timesheets

This is no time to talk about time. We don’t have the time! (Star Trek: First Contact) Are you one…

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The fall and decline of Microsoft

Great article over at Newsweek about the Lost Decade of Microsoft. I’m fully aware that Dan Lyons is Fake Steve,…

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October Hits

(We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog article with a reminder that Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy…

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Please, No!

So now the folks at the interoperability labs at Microsoft want to open up the Outlook PST format so that…

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