James O'Neill's blog
Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
I came upon an example of how Flash can be used well at www.seewindowsvista.com. In response to my...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/05/2006
At the community leaders day I was telling one of the attendees that my sister was a Professor of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/02/2006
Serendipity is at it again. A week ago I was looking at art in Paris. My mate Barry from MCS in the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/02/2006
I blogged about Open search in IE before; I just noticed this on technorati. I’ll wonder out loud...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/01/2006
So, as you must have read by now, last week we released a trinity of beta 2 products. Windows Server...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/01/2006
Sometime in the course of yesterday afternoon (UK time) Adobe changed something on their web site....
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/01/2006
One good thing about getting BBC news as an RSS feed in Outlook, is headlines like “Microsoft Debuts...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/31/2006
John Howard – who did this job before moving to the Virtualization group in Redmond - told me to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/24/2006
More details here. I've been saying for some time now: wait for beta 2 it is a big improvement over...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/24/2006
Regular readers (if I have any) will know that RSS is one of my interests. So I noticed Robert...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/23/2006
Vista feels different even before you log on. The logon process itself has changed: fast user...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/22/2006
Microsoft is a better place to work than it was last week. I was out of the country on Friday. My...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/19/2006
You get some idea how important vista is going to be when a web-site update makes the BBC news site....
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/19/2006
Talking about cost of ownership on its own is nuts. There, I’ve come out and said it. There are two...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/19/2006
In my post last Friday I mentioned installing Groove and the Mind Genius Mind mapping software which...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/15/2006
This post, and the last one were made from Word 2007 Beta. I don’t mean typed and spell checked in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/12/2006
Unexpectedly a new-ish laptop came my way on Wednesday. Pre-installed on it were newer builds of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/12/2006
I've had several requests for this week's "Let's look at vista" slide deck. The slides are in the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/12/2006
The following dates from 2002 when I was working a with Sharepoint Portal Server 2001. We used to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/10/2006
So, last week I was talking about "getting the search you want" this morning I was looking for some...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/09/2006
It was a pleasant surprise to get a mention from Robert Scoble, for my "RSS in 90 lines of code",...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/09/2006
One of the nice things about the new job is I get to walk round and bump into people I haven't...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/08/2006
I know - platfrom folks shouldn't do code. But yesterday I wrote my first "proper" program in nearly...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/05/2006
You may have heard claims about how Vista can help you save electricity. It has 3 features which...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/04/2006
I guess people who worked for Microsoft a few years ago must have some idea what it's like to be...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/03/2006
I want an Xbox 360. Someone gave me an original Xbox and the games still impresses me. When I got...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/02/2006
Back in the 1990s when I was working for a Microsoft partner I read Douglas Coupland's novel...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/02/2006
I remember the year hen 3 versions of Internet explorer were released. That was before I came to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/29/2006
The volume of web content is overwhelming. And it keeps changing - we could spend all day just...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/25/2006
VUE and Prometric are now taking bookings for the beta of Exam 262 "Microsoft® Office Live...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/24/2006
Well me actually ... I'm presenting on Let’s take a look at Windows Vista At Microsoft in Reading on...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/23/2006
If you use Live Communications Server and have a Windows Mobile device you need to have a look at...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/22/2006
I found out that that my boss did a video for Channel 9 when she was last in Redmond. It's quite...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/19/2006
Apple's "Boot camp" software has created a big stir, hasn't it? Apple is a leader in industrial...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/18/2006
I've been on holiday for a few days. Before I went, I met a visiting school group. I was asked to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/18/2006
Last week I posted about an advance notice of announcement that is was due that this week - it was...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/04/2006
First off I'm doomed unless I change the rules of the game. I just read in Eileen's post about the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/04/2006
After a week in the job I'll still feeling a little bit of culture shock between working in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/03/2006
Most weeks, one or other of the photography forums I visit will contain one of the following...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/03/2006
Yesterday was my second day in the new job and I joined a group of Microsoft Most Valued...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/29/2006
In yesterday's post I said "I’ve got an interest in how we communicate – and how sometimes we say a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/28/2006
If you want demographic information: I'm English, male, married (2 small children), born in the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/27/2006