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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 ...

Back in March, I wrote about some new e-mail message continuity services from FrontBridge.  Well, according to a press release just received from Microsoft, FrontBridge is about to become Microsoft's latest acquisition as it steps up its systems management and security capabilities. With the purchase of Giant Company ...

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 ...

In my recent post which discussed the perils of blogging I linked to Ray Ozzie's Weblog .  This week, I was interested to read that Ray Ozzie was actually the creator of Lotus Notes and that his company, Groove Networks is to be acquired by Microsoft (who have long since been investors in the firm) and integrated into Microsoft's ...

Following Microsoft's recent foray into the anti-spyware market and ending months of speculation, Microsoft announced today that it is to attack another form of malware through its purchase of Sybari Software. Whether anti-virus technologies will be included within Windows (alongside the Windows Firewall), or made available as a separate download ...

I don't normally bother to read about Microsoft's latest legal battle when yet another competitor cries out that nobody buys their product because it's free/cheaper/better/more widely available* (*delete as appropriate) from Microsoft, but yesterday's rejection of Microsoft's appeal against European Union sanctions concerns me greatly. Forget the ...

Back in August I posted an entry on my private blog about the what you should know about spyware article on the Microsoft website. The article has since been replaced but I was interested to read about Microsoft's purchase of Giant Company - a leading provider of anti-spyware and anti-spam software. Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows includes ...