James O'Neill's blog
Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
Microsoft Surface. Alias Play table. AKA Milan.
Scoble had an interesting link to Mary Jo. I had seen a lightning demo of this before, but I thought...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/30/2007
Getting a better PDF experience
Lets get prejudice out up front. I pendulum between liking Adobe products (e.g. Lightroom), admiring...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/27/2007
Xbox 360 - a nice surprise at Amazon.co.uk
I've been dragging my feet about upgrading my Xbox, but some of the bearings are getting a bit...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/27/2007
Loves and hates
Yesterday was spent on an18 hour "jaunt" to speak for 90 minutes at an HP event in Portugal. Before...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/25/2007
When the police think we're becoming a Surveillance society...
Here's an interesting factlet. A couple of miles from my house, in one of those villages with a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/22/2007
Doing our bit ... but wishing we didn't have to.
One of the pieces of music I have in my car is Anne Clark's Elegy for a lost summer. One line from...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/22/2007
Some interesting facts about Vista and why the logo matters
A mail came round with a few interesting facts about Vista - which I thought I'd share with you....
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/18/2007
Technical Careers Showcase: an Open evening on June 7th
I've blogged before about what a good place to work Microsoft can be. Well the Microsoft Recruitment...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/17/2007
Office Communications Server round-up
Two sets of information have come my way about OCS. The first is the licensing is beginning to get...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/17/2007
Goodbye "Longhorn" it's been nice to know you
We have announced at Winhec the name for longhorn server. It's was tough to come up with a name...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/16/2007
PCs and Macs. And smartphones.
Having had a go at Google, I suppose it's time to look at Apple. Odd as it may sound Microsoft...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/16/2007
Halo 3 - and well kept secrets
Part of me says I should not have to learn about what's happening at Microsoft from the BBC. My dive...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/16/2007
Google stories ?
I blogged before about Google reading peoples documents, but one of my colleagues in the US shared...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/15/2007
Windows Server virtualization and taking a dive.
I've spent the last few days diving. Scuba and photography fight it out for third place in my...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/15/2007
Voice control ... sooner than I thought.
Maybe I'm getting mellow in my old age, or maybe things in Microsoft IT are changing. There was a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/09/2007
Webcasts on Certification - and 40% off !
With all the new products which we're seeing this year, the question does bubble up "How does this...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/09/2007
If your data is in the cloud... where's your privacy ?
Another story which has been doing the rounds this week, has been stories that has been the rounds...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/06/2007
Privacy. And a tale of headless riders, Police blogs and security theatre
When dealing with data privacy, we need to think about proper use of Personally Identifiable...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/05/2007
Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" E-Learning
This online learning We are putting Microsoft Learning Resources for Windows Server "Longhorn"...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/02/2007
Vista After hours
A little while back we dreamed up a session to look at what you do can do with Vista when the day...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/02/2007
What we do in 18 days takes Google 3 months ... and other stats
Yahoo finance has a story "10 reinvigorating facts about Microsoft's profits.": The writer opens "I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/02/2007
Voice command
I'm tapping this in from the qwerty keypad on the E650 - which may turn out to be a masochistic...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/29/2007
Psst! Want to be on the Windows Server virtualization Technology Adoption Program ?
On Friday the Windows Server virtualization (WSv) team opened nominations for the Technology...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/28/2007
Unified communications team goes Hollywood
I've already blogged about the Devil Wear Prada videos that the Unified communications team put out....
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/28/2007
Rights managed mail. Windows Mobile 6 pulls a new trick.
Digital rights management get a bad press. To most of us, as consumers of music or video it's...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/27/2007
TV Indirect to your phone...
Well, well here's serendipity again. While Eileen was posting about "TV-Direct to your phone" I was...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/26/2007
3 days with the E650 phone and Windows Mobile 6.
Teething troubles with the new phone have proved to be pretty minor. I'm finding more things to love...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/26/2007
Longhorn Beta 3 released to the public
Expect the Internet to be a bit (more) sluggish ... Beta central has Longhorn Beta 3 available for...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/26/2007
A new day, a new phone.
Bias declaration: I've been a fan of Windows Mobile since before we started using the name. But...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/25/2007
Windows Server longhorn beta3 - web casts
Beta 3 is just on the point of emerging blinking into the sunlight. We have a bunch of Webcasts...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/25/2007
Optimization - or how long will some jobs last.
Hugh's Cartoons seem get straight to the heart of the matter. Service functions like Accounting, IT,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/23/2007
More information on Office Communications Server
I had a list of interesting bits on the web in my mail this morning, and I thought the following two...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/23/2007
NTBackup - restore for Vista
I'm not quite sure when it appeared, but this evening I noticed a link on the restore dialog box in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/22/2007
Oops... Vista SP1 date 'slips out': Film at 11.
As I've said in the last couple of posts I've been in Athens with other evangelists looking at...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/21/2007
Presentation skills
I'm back from in Athens, we had a 2 day evangelism summit (a synod ??) followed by after 3 days of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/21/2007
Virtualization - 2005-R2-SP1-RC now available.
Gee what a name. The Release Candidate build of Virtual Server R2 SP1 is now available Before anyone...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/18/2007
USB and travel
In a couple of hours I fly off for week working in Athens. I've been talking to prospective...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/15/2007
Will the management sign off this new IM device ?
OK,I'm a bit slow off the mark here but last week we announced we're linking Xbox live into Windows...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/11/2007
Longhorn Server 101 – what’s all the fuss about ? Your chance to see.
As we get closer to the public beta of Longhorn, it might be a good time for me to start talking...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/10/2007
Who tells our story - we do, providing we aten't dead.
I sometimes tell the following Joke "When people ask me what I do for a living, I say 'I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/10/2007
Windows 2003 SP2 slipstreaming - a gotcha with R2.
You know that manager saying about "Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions ?" It took me a long...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/09/2007
Vista Activation update
A while back I posted the diagram below to try to explain how Vista activation worked. Click it for...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/09/2007
Moving to Ultimate pt 2
I can't believe I'm going to say that one of the things I get best about this upgrade is the screen...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/09/2007
Very much alive.
It's been great to spend the holiday weekend out and about with the family, and I spent Saturday...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/08/2007
Longhorn server beta 3 ... nearly ... but not yet.
Over on the Windows server blog, they've got an explanation about the build of Longhorn which has...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/07/2007
Friday Humour... put the computer back in the box.
There are some bits of humour which are so well known they become the basis for other jokes. One...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/06/2007
If freedom of choice doesn't do it for you how about lower taxes ?
A couple of days ago I wrote about our online Petition to the BSI concerning Open XML, it's always...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/06/2007
MVPs and Microsoft Transparency
The Serendipity fairy has been at it again. Earlier this week we sent out the Welcome messages to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/05/2007
Sign-up for freedom of choice
Back in February I wrote about IBM and their attempts to throw a spanner in the works for the Open...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/03/2007
Network adapter priority in Vista
When I'm in the office I have a network cable on my hot desk and access to wireless networking....
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/03/2007