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The Rough Guide to Windows 7
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Category Archives: Client
Talking about App Compat and Internet Explorer today with Quest
Today I presented at a seminar with Quest around IE migrations and compatibility. Many people asked for the deck, so here it is. Continue reading
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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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How the consumerisation of IT affects IT departments
There are a few trends that are affecting IT in some hard hitting, demanding and, for many, (work) life changing ways. Cloud is the first obvious one, but causing more of a pain in the IT department’s rear right now is probably consumerisation.
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Resources from my #uktechdays “Better Together” session
Hopefully for lots of you reading this you’ll be looking for some resources off the back of the turn I’ve just done about DirectAccess and BranchCache. Bellow are some places with some really useful information. Here’s a video by Kevin … Continue reading
Resources from my Modern Desktop Presentation
You might have just seen my UK TechDays 2011 presentation which will be available online after the show, however if you didn’t get time to make a note of the resources, here you go: •Springboard: http://bit.ly/W7SB •Download Windows 7 Eval: … Continue reading
Posted in Office 2010, Office 365, Windows 7, Windows Phone 7
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Why you need to get off Windows XP and move to Windows 7
Windows XP is cutting edge empowering a new wave of personal computing. The year is 2001 and Donnie Darko, The Fast and the Furious, A beautiful mind and Black hawk down are topping the movie charts…a short time later these … Continue reading
How to turn your SharePoint site into a native app with 5 lines of code
The web has changed and things have moved on, not really a shock, but the evolution of the latest web browsers is changing things. In particular Internet Explorer 9 allows you to take any site you see on the web and turn it into a native applicat… Continue reading
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Optimized Desktop unplugged Slides
Just a quick one to provide people access to the slides from todays OD unplugged session in London. I can’t share my demo just now but I will record it…here are the slides for OD unplugged. But also embedded in the post here courtesy of Windows Live and don’t forget to checkout Springboard and the Windows 7 Evaluation I mentioned.
And also here’s the productivity video from my session.
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Office 2010, Optimized Desktop, Windows 7
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Deployment options for small and midsized businesses
If you find Windows 7 deployment options to be confusing you might find this handy new – stick it to your wall and refer to it daily – tech sheet to be rather helpful. The Windows 7 Deployment Options for Small and Midsized Businesses print… Continue reading
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Practical deployment webcast live
A few days ago as part of our Tech Days online series I did a webcast on how to deploy Windows 7 using free tools like WDS, MDT and WAIK and that practical deployment webcast has now been made available online. We’re running these three weeks o… Continue reading
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