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Over the last few years, I've been a consultant for a major IT Services company; worked for a UK-based support services company; contracted for Australia’s largest independent magazine distributor; worked in-house designing and project managing a Europe-wide infrastructure refresh for a major fashion design, marketing and retail organisation; and ...

Last week, I was fortunate enough to be quoted on the front page of IT Week by Martin Veitch, in his article ''Decision Time for Win2000 Users''.  Of course, as my wife is a Public Relations Consultant, I understand (and even expect) only a partial quote when a journalist asks for comment, so I'm using my blog to put this into context, ...

Microsoft and the European Commission have finally agreed on the name for the version of Windows XP with Media Player removed - Windows XP N.  How dull?  I preferred Windows XP Reduced Media Edition (after all, one of the benefits of ''regular'' XP is its improved multimedia capabilities) but the EU were never going to accept that!  I'm not ...

I've seen a lot of press coverage over the last week or so about Microsoft's plans for Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0.  One of the major gripes seems to be that it will require Windows XP service pack 2 (SP2). So what's wrong with that? One of the main reasons that people are moving to other browsers (e.g. Firefox) is that IE is perceived as ...

Anti-trust laws are supposed to protect consumers from monopolistic companies.  As such, it is hardly surprising that Microsoft regularly finds itself in court facing yet another anti-trust suit, but the latest move by the US government concerns me greatly. I have a licensed version of Windows XP Professional on my laptop, so I'm not bothered by ...