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Simon is an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft UK, everything here is his own thoughts and opinion. -

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Author Archives: Simon
How many times a day do you use Windows?
Using Windows is something that most of us do every day, but you probably don’t realise just how much. A friend sent me this internal video that shows a “day in the life” of an average chap and just how many times he comes across a Windows … Continue reading
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What does the future look like
Yesterday I did a turn for a great group of CTOs associated to a variety of hedge funds. As promised here is my deck from the day. The Future of IT View more presentations from Simon May. Continue reading
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Nominated for a CW Social Media Award
For a Computer Weekly Social Media Award… Which is kind of cool and I’d really appreciate you taking 5 minutes (probably less) to vote here for Simon-May.com which is listed in the IT Professional section, although I’d also like you … Continue reading
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The Future
I quite often get asked to talk about what the future will be like and this video is excellent, it shows lots of augmented reality and the like but what really inspires me is the context computing you throughout. Switch context, switch interface…. Continue reading
IE9 is secure, managed and trusted for your organisation
In this world concerned with consumerised IT where almost everyone is familiar with using a browser of some description and many are bombarded by messages about how “fast” the internet can be if you use browser X, it really is important to…. Continue reading
Still on XP? Why you should be browsing with IE8
There are plenty of people out there still using Windows XP, however many parts of the operating system have needed to be updated in order to keep things going. There have been three service packs released for Windows XP since it’s inception and…. Continue reading
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This one-day online conference features a range of sessions specially tailored for IT Pros and covering the big challenges for the year ahead. Join Microsoft experts plus professionals from IT departments around the UK to discuss topics such as how … Continue reading
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Me, talking cloud, in the Telegraph
A few weeks ago I was in a Telegraph supplement talking about cloud. Here’s the online version of the article on the Telegraph (UK national newspaper) website. Continue reading
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The basics of Windows Azure for IT Pros
Windows Azure has now been around long enough to be a mature platform for building services on and as such IT Professionals are being asked to look at the service. Of course IT Pros are looking for slightly different things from a platform than others…. Continue reading
Cloud Adoption in SMEs
One of our UK TechNet readers, Christopher Latham, wrote to me a couple of weeks ago looking for help with some research he’s undertaking for his MSc Dissertation and the subject “ Cloud Computing adoption in SMEs” is something that I’m really … Continue reading
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