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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 ...

I was sorting out my den/office this weekend and came across a Microsoft operational excellence resource CD.  The concept seems quite good (although the content seemed a little out of date, even bearing in mind that it had sat in a pile of ''stuff to look at when I have time'' for 10 months); however, the operational excellence section of the ...

Windows 2000 mainstream support is due to end today and a couple of days back, as expected, Microsoft released update rollup 1 for Windows 2000 service pack 4.  Full details of this update (including why it is not called Windows 2000 service pack 5) are included in Microsoft knowledge base article 891861 and the problems which it ...

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, ...

Michael Surkan, Microsoft's Program Manager for Networking and Devices, has asked me to post a link to his survey to gain customer input on some networking features Microsoft is considering in the next version of Windows (codenamed Longhorn): ''The Microsoft network product team is investigating ways of resolving peer-to-peer connectivity ...

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 ...