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…
Category: Aside
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!…
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…
20 years…
I remember mentioning earlier this year that there are few events I remember in stunning detail. Tiananmen Square, the Challenger…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
October Hits
(We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog article with a reminder that Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy…
Please, No!
So now the folks at the interoperability labs at Microsoft want to open up the Outlook PST format so that…