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This is How the 1E SE Team Does Con Calls

February 01, 2008

It's not only Microsoft, but we love these tunes as well, but we get a female voice with a British accent! Source . Regards, Anthony Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E http://configmgr.com © Anthony Clendenen  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , ,

Who Uses Ask.com?

February 01, 2008

Get out - people really use Ask.com to search the Internet? I don't think I have ever seen this on someone's monitor or heard anyone I know ever mention them. http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2008/01/31/could-live-search-actually-take-second-place/ LiveSide has done a complete chart showing the search engine market share ratings from Nielsen, Hitwise and Compete over the last 13 months, and the trends are confusing, but may be moving in Microsoft’s favor. While Hitwise shows...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: ,

Sync Windows Mobile With Your Mac For Free

November 29, 2007

Not that I know or ever work with anyone that uses a Mac. I mean come on, I work for a Microsoft Gold Partner, no one I know from myITforum.com or work has ever even seen a Mac, let alone own one... Source . What Missing Sync did for $39, SyncMate does for free—syncing your contacts, calendars, notes and favorites from your Windows Mobile phone onto your Mac with little to no hassle. Unfortunately for WM users, the default iSync software doesn't support either WM5 or WM6 as well as it should...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: ,

Why Patch Tuesday Turns Into Patch Thursday or Friday or Monday

October 09, 2007

I used to hate the second Tuesday of every month. I honestly liked it better when patches were released as they were ready. What happens with the scheduled updates is that everyone knows that it is coming and that means that everyone expects their SMS Engineers to have the patches deployed that night, no matter how late, no matter how many people, no matter what! And on Wednesday morning, usually around nine, everyone wants to know the status of the deployments. For me I had some advantages, one...  ... Read the full post or  the 3 comments. Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Gartner Preditcs The End of Blogging and Windows

December 17, 2006

Gartner usually does some pretty good stuff, but they are kind of like Sony to me, I get that look that can best be described as head tilted to the side, eyebrows closer together, fore head wrinkled, head slightly leaning forward, blinking rate decreases to zero and is then suddenly followed by a rapid succession, and then after a long silence the very profound statement of “Huh?” comes out. Remember their predictions about the Vista delay? How about companies making employees purchase...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: