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2008 32
- So why: 'Wet String and Sellotape'...?
- Moving on...
- Inbound to Houston...check out digital WPC from your sofa
- Microsoft and the Environment..do we help or hinder?
- Change your HPC environment to Windows and run 10% faster - Windows HPC debuts in the Top 25 fastest supercomputers in the world!!
- Learn from the best of the best - Tours of the World's Best Intranets!!
- Microsoft UK HPC User Group
- Offtopic - love cars?
- Shameless plug for a partners seminars on WCM with MOSS 2007!
- FAST Acquired - now running as a Microsoft Subsidiary
- 18 hours of Free Enterprise Search Training!
- Monthly SharePoint LiveMeetings from the UK Channel Team
- It's not that I am competitive but...
- Microsoft Enterprise Search Workshops - Back by popular demand!
- We're looking for Search Heroes - tell us your story!
- Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta Survey - free bits, free book, thanks from Lord Waite!
- SharePoint Seattle Conference - UK Party Information Here!
- New Microsoft Action Pack - details here!
- Windows HPC 2008 - 1 day Jumpstart Course - March 27th!
- Opportunity Of a Lifetime - Play at Wembley...?
- Deploying Office SharePoint Server globally....tips here!
- An audience with Bill Gates...what will he be focussing on now?
- Back by popular demand - Enterprise Search Deep Technical Training!!
- Free SharePoint Events for Legal and Professional Services!
- Faceted Search in SharePoint....here's how!
- Free one day workshops - first 2 sold out - sign up quick!
- Offtopic - Humour and Irony - Laser ice levelling - nice!
- Fast plan to get into High End Enterprise Search...!
- Host of New Year articles on HPC from Microsoft - channel 9 and TechNet!
- Microsoft Enterprise Search - one day workshops!
- Hot news - Microsoft to buy FAST!
- MOSS in call centres - gotta love this quote!
2007 161
- Merry Christmas....yo ho ho greetings from all at Microsoft!
- Upgrade tips for SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007
- Fancy experiencing MOSS 07 in a Test Drive - then register here!
- So what connectors do we have for Enterprise Search?
- SGi and Ansys Webcast on Compute Cluster - momentum building!
- SGi ramp up the power on their HPC Offering with WCCS!
- More technical posts on Search Express...thanks to Dave Overton!
- Analyst and Press quotes on the recent Free Enterprise Search announcement
- Microsoft Search Server Demo here...!
- Microsoft Search Server Launched - Free Version Available!!
- Microsoft Enterprise Search Click Through Demo - download it here!
- Hugely Successful SharePoint Enterprise Search Event!
- Enterprise Search Training - available now for December!
- The Future of Web Search
- Delivering real business benefits through Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Nice reference for MOSS07 at Durham Business School - Search and Collaboration!
- Which version of SharePoint CAL and Server should you buy?
- Enterprise Search Community Day - 1st November - Register Now!
- Nice legal win for Search - check it out!
- Shiny new MOSS 2007 site from Content & Code!
- Great Partner Innovation - Artemis and Rapid for SharePoint - new release!
- SDK Availability in plain English...what does it give you...!
- SDK availability for SharePoint 2007 SDK 1.2 and WSS 3.0 SDK 1.2...!
- 10 reasons to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Market Pressures - increased importance of HPC activity for Quants with CCS
- Investment Analytics Seminar - Excel Services and WCCS
- Great new case studies from UK HPC Partners!
- New Whitepaper - Dual Boot systems CCS & Linux - great guidance
- Enterprise Search Deep Technical Training - Subsidised by us - get it here!
- WWPC Content get all your slide decks from here!
- HPC Video Interview on Microsoft and OpenSource
- ECM Connection Feedback on MOSS 07.. :-)
- Free Download - Microsoft Research on Enterprise Search Market
- Microsoft HPC Survey for Financial Services....download your free copy here!
- Enterprise Search Content, presentations and whitepapers here!
- Microsoft HPC System leaps into the Top 500 - full datasheet to download
- HPC momentum - wins, partnerships and more!
- Microsoft HPC in the Top 500 - deployment whitepaper on the how!
- Solid work ethics and the big picture - don't confuse the two...
- My favourite books...
- Install, Configure and Tune CCS!
- Top Stuff I have seen recently..
- 1st Microsoft UK Enterprise Search Partner Community Event - UK Search Awards and UK Search Appliance!
- New HPC Case study - Environmental Sciences Network!
- Microsoft Enterprise Search comes of age!
- HPC Partner TV Video - WCCS and Excel Services - Great insight!
- Things that make me smile...World Communications Awards...:-)
- Human 2.0: Windows Compute Human Server...early product team discussions..
- Great slide on value of Excel Services..
- HPC Partner TV Video - 1st for the HPC Team in Redmond... :-)
- Simple blogging - great tool to use...Live Writer beta 2 goes public!
- 2 new HPC whitepapers
- Microsoft Surface: Coolest piece of Microsoft Technology for a decade?
- How Microsoft IT manages Enterprise Search...
- Overtime for mobile mail users?
- Sex in the City...
- SharePoint Search 2007 - technical drill down document!
- HPC Content - The good ship CCS resupplies - get your juice here!
- So how do Microsoft help partners - simple example - PR
- Windows 64 bit apps play nicely with Windows Compute Cluster Server
- Is Google Enterprise Search a joke?
- Traditional HPC partners adopt dual Microsoft and Linux strategies..
- Partner Search Deployment Subsidy - free cash from Microsoft
- Want an insight into Excel Services on Compute Cluster Server...read on?
- A day in the life of SteveB..
- Financial Services Grid Initiative - Launched!
- Microsoft Search comes out...
- Scaling SOA in Financial Services with Grid Computing for .net
- Need MOSS migration tools?
- High Productivity Computing...Linux and Microsoft??
- Rumourmill...Microsoft to buy Yahoo?
- HPC User Group Kicks off In Reading, UK - 95% attendance - tremendous support!
- The power of a smile...
- Clustered Excel in FS...great article!
- Don't wait for Search and BI to become the same product - Gartner comments...
- CCS and MSFT Share price...!
- 6 pillars of MOSS 07
- Topten of Web 2.0...interesting stuff!
- Cluster Wars - Scaling Up Derivatives with CCS!
- Enterprise Search Eval Kits have arrived!
- TechGuys coming soon to a house near you..!
- Quickstart for Search - free exam vouchers - what a refreshing change!
- Funky new ads and demo of MOSS 07..New Day ad campaign
- So what is the Live Maps response...
- Microsoft wins over Linux servers...
- CCS SP1 trial version available on MS.com..!
- Host of Excel Services whitepapers...
- Simple Courtesies..
- Software Passion...or a means to an end...
- Excel Services for Dummies...!
- MSDN TV: Building custom solutions with Excel Services
- Free Enterprise Search....eval...!
- MCP Magazine on 'Why Quickstart... and Search Specialisation coming!'
- Ballmer comments on compute cluster for Finance...
- More on the UK CCS user conference...
- More free training for CCS...
- Another reason why Compute Cluster Server...
- Compliance a headache - check this out...!
- Green Computing: Check out the Vista green credentials!!
- Fancy a Revolution anyone?
- Little gem of delight for you HPC gurus...!
- Microsoft Search with SharePoint - New Deep Technical Resources
- Career Manifesto...get on the bus or...
- Great ballmer video on Google and joining Microsoft
- Progress: activity doesn't always equal better experience :-)
- Time to stop the hype about Google?
- Windows Live deal with lenovo and nokia!
- HPC training...free...come and get it!
- Intel Servers that sapp less juice...
- High Performance Club gets into first gear!
- Giving...fancy joining in?
- Presentation help...
- Partnering with Microsoft...honesty helps!
- Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
- BAE trusts Microsoft HPC for product development
- Technorati Post for spiders
- WebPronews.com press article on the Energy forum whitepaper...nice resume here:
- Announcing: Brilliant oil and gas whitepaper on industry use of Microsoft CCS for high performance computing
- Google maps and the top supercomputers worldwide - check out the ww distribution - one laptop per child will become one cluster per family??
- Fancy a search test drive...? Book here for your chance to learn more all about Microsoft and Search!
- Cool announcement on hpc from IBM - yes that is a microsoftee saying that ;-)
- Free Champagne - build your Excel services on CCS demo and win!
- For all those people who think that bosses are perfect - remember we are all learning...
- Medstory...more views on the intuitive UI....very very very cool!
- So what does medstory give you...?
- Medstory ANnouncement - Microsoft Search goes vertical for Healthcare...cool news!
- Looking to partner with Microsoft....simple tips on how to be successful...
- Quick apology...
- Partnering for the Future..
- Humour from Oz: Hmmm to Google or to LiveSearch...that is the question :-)
- Joy was quick....Wolfram WebCast on CCS integration - marvellous!
- Résumé of top stories from the microsoft.com/hpc site...
- 2 great HPC Webcasts coming up...running production CCS and Fluent on CCS..
- Guardian UK Article on 'When will I be able to have my own Supercomputer' - well now actually...
- Great guide to Windows Live and Virtual Earth and Live Search mash ups....beating Google hands down?
- Fancy a Random Day Out...check out the Virtual Earth integration on this funky web service...!
- MSN Soapbox Goes Public...check out this ad and watch out for HPC and Search Videos up here soon...
- Dell and Microsoft Clusters..
- Announcing: High Performance Lovin' from Microsoft...trip to Denver anyone?
- MOSS 07 Technical links: Partner needed help - maybe useful for you guys too..
- New Microsoft Portal for HPC information - certified partners only so get registered and certified today!!
- Get help about the Microsoft Partner Programme direct from Instant Messenger - check out the PartnerBot today!
- Scottish Innovation at it's best....so inspiring to spend some time in Glasgow and Edinburgh...learnings we can take from Google to bespoke system builders to new business start ups!
- Something slightly Freudian about this, Google advertisingMicrosoft Channel Builder programmes for HPC from this blog...
- Channel Builder - Want to partner with HPC SIs in the UK...? Speeddating Microsoft Styleee... ;-)
- Announcing dates for the February, March and April Enterprise Search courses..
- Ding ding tickets please...oooh is that a Zune..!
- Bill Gates with Gordon Brown in Edinburgh...see the speech here:
- Colfax introduces cluster for HPC..
- IT Week article on HPC from interview with Michael Newberry..link here!
- HPC posts...headsup to whats coming up...
- Announcing: new set of webcasts for deploying SharePoint Search - great technical detailed webcasts!
- Screenshot of the British Library 'Turning pages Application' - Bill Gates own book by Leonardo da Vinci!!
- WOW Moment: Leaf through Bill Gates 'Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester' on loan to the British Library!!
- Want to know why Virtual Earth over Google Maps...read on from a customer who made the switch!
- Claire O'Halloran aka the Armadillo joins the Blogosphere...
- Great Enterprise Search Case study - BBC...!
- Top tip - if you have another half who doesnt like getting out of bed in the morning...
- Microsoft gives to charity every time you search - save this link and send to your friends!
- Google Hype: Google maps - Great post on Virtual Earth, Live Search and mapping technologies by James Senior...check it out!
- Great comments sections on the value of Excel Services for HPC...check out the Xenomorph website!
2006 123
- The business benefit of taxonomy based search in MOSS 07 with Smartlogic
- Smartlogic Test Library...screenshot of a cool app!
- Great ISV showing how to add value to MOSS 07..deeper document classification!
- Ray Ozzie on techNet....nice video and insight into Microsoft
- Funniest thing I have seen all year...Elf Yourself..
- Saw this on CNET - Goofiest tech moves of 2006
- SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Search: Screenshots - Great Legal customer testament!
- From the news today...check out the comparison with IBMs Omnifind here:
- IBM Omnifind and Yahoo team up.....love it when industries warm up!
- Product Comparison by 'Technology and Business' on Google, Microsoft, IBM and ISYS....check out these results!
- Offtopic: First Direct - The Comedy Bank get in the Christmas Spirit
- Friday Humour: Dilbert legacy systems...what happens when the architect leaves!
- Seriously cool check this our Windows Live Expo - Public Beta and it's cooool!
- Very cool - want to upgrade your Zune to 80Gb...read on :-)
- Not often you get to see 300 XBOXs in one go...check this out!
- Great news for Microsoft Action Pack subscribers - product list for Jan 10th Action pack...!
- Blimey...child arrested for opening presents early...yo ho ho..seasons greetings to you all :-)
- Windows Live Academic...check it out - wish I had this doing my BSc...!
- Live Search: check out the library from the comfort of your sofa!
- Tech Links for MOSS 07...video, demo, and links!
- Machine Evaluation Workshop in Daresbury...MS exhibiting now!
- What can you do in the Virtual Earth SDK...here's what!
- Virtual Earth Technology: SDK Release use for your website today!
- Want some help adding Live Search to your websites - great msdn article!
- Zune: Boy did I like the sight of this...at last - love it, sooooo good!
- Want a great update on what is in Vista - great review and update from the BBC..!
- Link to the Oil and Gas Event Site for Fluent and 2 great Windows CCS Partners!
- Oil & Gas Conference with Fluent - how to snap your back in one go with 120Kg of Windows Cluster!
- Zune in #2 slot for portable digital player market...not bad after first 4 days of sales!
- Like to track your Wind Levels - check out this cool Vistagadget...!
- Make more $$$ with Microsoft - understand where we can help you!
- Want to Port your code to WCCS 2003 - Free labs coming up in Europe and US!!
- Free: SharePoint 2007 Resource DVD - why it's useful to own and how I use them...!
- CCS Pricing....on the web...great resource for understanding how toprice Windows Compute Cluster Server!
- More Live Ads in the press....check out page 18 of the Sunday Times!
- Nuns on the run on the tinterweb...
- Personality Test - Quite Amusing results...here're mine!
- Fantastic Oil & Gas video from Schlumberger Sema - Microsoft CCS inaction...nice and simple - nice and clear!
- Great video on HPC Fluid Dynamics used in Yacht Design...cool stuff from the French!
- It's Zune time - homma homma!!!
- Search Course registration link - you saw it here first!!
- MOM Pack available for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003!
- HPC Through the Ages - Great funny Video for Friday viewing...check it out..
- How does HPC affect your everyday lives....check out this Video showcasing Prof Simon Cox from Southampton University
- Less High Performance Computing more High Performance Eating....
- Quite possibly the best thing to happen in the world all week..
- Had me crying with laughter...race horses, flocks of chickens and harnessing huskies :-)
- Free Champagne....to the winner of this simple competition..!
- Unshamedly stolen from Steve Lamb's great Security blog....cheers Stephen!
- Securing SharePoint - best practices and what is Forefront...something rude, a pest spray or something else??
- Announcement: Hands on Enterprise Search Course coming up..!
- Getting hassle about your non-existent Christmas list...try this as the perfect way to sort out that crucial list!!
- Zune launches - Some very cool media comments...will it continue?
- Syndicated Live Search being adopted by websites - check out the Register using LiveSearch!
- Microsoft and Bull Put High-Performance Computing Within Reach...momentum building!
- Microsoft and Tyan Partner for HPC Relationship - another hardware provider on the block!!
- Free Search training for first 600 partners...!
- See if this works...BlogRMail with Tags and Photos...
- Moments in your life when you go WOW!
- Video from Frank Chism HPC technical speacialist of 41 years...check it out!
- HPC - The way all computing will look...
- Port 25 v2 Upgrade - Live!
- Simple syndicated live.com Search option for public facing websites..!
- Make a difference or go home...that's the polite version!
- Windows Cluster Resource Centre: University of Southampton and Microsoft Research working together!
- Zane Adam (Director in the HPC team) discusses the future of Windows CCS 2003...Virtual Tech-Ed Video!
- Queens University uses Compute Cluster Server for bringing HPC to mass research..!
- Zune Desktop download yours now!
- IDC - The Hidden Costs of Information Work - get the article here and MS Commentary!
- Beyond Search: Unleashing the Value of Business Information ....the MS story succinctly..!
- Level 300 Technical Training for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - get it now online!
- Resources and proof points for HPC partners and customers...gaining momentum!
- Calling all Search and HPC ISVs....more $$$ on Microsoft platform!
- Holiday Warning...
- Offtopic - Printer software bigger than Office 2007 - help...!?
- Offtopic: Brilliant video on Zune over on On10...bought mine...well 3 actually :-)
- Offtopic: What small change in a car, would deliver a 3.5% difference in top speed? (Hint it's a Lamborghini...)
- HPC Technical Training - full in 24 hours...more to come!
- Reshuffle and Rebrand around Microsoft Search - Fantastic News....here's why...!!
- Microsoft technology perspective on Enterprise Search...great concise document!!
- Scripting for Compute Cluster Server on TechNet..
- Microsoft cluster gets into the Top 500!!
- ISV Profile: HPC ISVs spring into life - check out the progress...
- Quickstart for Search: Free trip to Redmond, free POC of your business idea...!
- Protecting Privacy - could Search be the last bastion in protecting identity....or the tool used against us all by the evil doers...??
- Humour: Run a search for 'Search' and locate your nearest competitor - Google and MS :-)
- Training agenda confirmed for CCS training - 1st and 2nd November - register now!!
- Windows HPC Community Links and Dev Forum!!
- IBM and Microsoft joining forces...!
- HPC Blog transitioning - change your feeders now!
- Early headsup - UK Training for CCS - free...!
- New Search training on Quickstart for Search!
- The Google Effect...and Doris...we all need one!!
- Offtopic: CNET Awards Finalist for Technology Partnership of the Year Award 2006 - Microsoft and SurfControl
- Microsoft Virtual Partner Conference - discover more about our plans and direction!
- Microsoft Search Solution Event with Redmond Guest Speakers!
- Design change for Blog: making RSS feeders have happier eating..!
- Microsoft Search gaining credibility and seen as a compelling differentiator for Microsoft Partners... - read the report here!
- Search Training Week - calling all SIs and Devs around Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007!!
- Friday Humour: Cubicle Song and Video...classic stuff
- Offtopic: Abseiling, Climbing and lots of water...good excuse for less blogging
- Warning change of blog - single blogs now for HPC and Search - change your RSS feeds accordingly :-)
- Sunday Humour: Gaping Void.....the blogging wine/cartoonist on MS and Google
- Google Apps: Commentary and Discussion....check out this press release!!
- Offtopic Sunday humour: Fiat put Escape and Windows Keys on Steering Wheels.. :-)
- Off Topic: Scoble and Eric Sink on: How to get people talking about your product...
- Microsoft HPC / CCS - the best technical support and dev links ever...?!
- Quick Poll: Feedback on splitting the blogs between HPC and Search - ??
- "It's the bleeding edge," said InterKnowlogy CEO Tim Huckaby, "but the next version of SharePoint is so good it's worth the pain."
- Microsoft search wants to pick your brain...and then some!
- iFilters - how to write as well as how to use in managed code!
- Customizing SPS and Beta of MSN Search....
- Microsoft UK Managing Director - video live on TechNet
- The Business Online Article: Microsoft and Google slug it out for control of enterprise Search
- Offtopic Friday humour...More on the Automotive Industry..!
- Auto industry revs up high-performance computing!!
- Want to know the history of SuperComputing...MS Research article with the lot!!
- Microsoft shows off improved search - the user dimension..
- Partners using Microsoft CCS - The ISV solutions..
- High Performance Computing...for the masses...
- Opinions sought...French Government to enter the Search Market...what do you all reckon?
- Link to Microsoft jumpstart for Search
- Introduction..