One of the more interesting things to come out of the recent PDC conference (for me at least) was the work MS has been doing around identity in the cloud. It’s always looked like a bit of a stumbling block for the adoption of cloud services, especially for enterprises where simple user interfaces and single …
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Engineering Windows 7
I’ve just read through the latest posting over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog, this time a follow up post on Desktop Search. Reading though the posts on there I keep thinking about just how good blogs can be when used properly. In that blog the product team are able to talk about not only …
Google Androids breaking Windows
Since T-Mobile launched the first Google Android based phone a few weeks ago I’ve read a few good pieces about the both the phone itself and the overall platform. I find it interesting that pretty much all the articles and blogs compare Android directly with the iPhone. From what I’ve seen it’s more an alternative …
Yammering
I’ve just been looking at Yammer a bit more after signing up over the weekend. It’s a great idea – twitter for the enterprise. Essentially you sign up using a work email address, and then you only see messages from users with addresses from the same domain. Clever idea. What’s more, although it’s free for …
Working with Generation Y
Generation Y. It’s a term that keeps coming up. Before that it was Digital Natives, and I’m sure different companies and areas have their own terms. What makes these guys so special eh? Well I guess the most basic answer is that these are the guys that our companies will be employing from this point …