UK’s NHS moving to Microsoft Exchange 2007 supporting over 260.000 users.

Several newssites report on the decision of NHS to move to Microsoft Exchange 2007. The size is enormous : 260.000 users. Aparently various solutions have been evaluated in a feasibility study and Microsoft came up a winner. Source : Sillicon.com  … The NHS will be moving its internal email and directory system…

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Microsoft Office Project Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2007 IT Project and Portfolio Management Applications Magic Quadrant

Great recognition for the Microsoft Project product family. The Gartner Magic Quadrants are a good indications for major and upcoming players in certain area’s and overall Microsoft is doing well in a lot of these analysis … … Microsoft Corp., a leading provider of project and portfolio management (PPM) software, today…

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Live Earth Concerts on MSN.com Are the Most Watched Entertainment Event in Online History

This was certainly a big “stresstest” for the MSN infrastructure. I watched a number of concerts live via MSN.com and the quality was very good … MSN delivers 30 million streams to date; more than 8 million people worldwide enjoyed live online coverage. … A history-making audience of viewers from around…

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Microsoft Live Communications Server and Federation

As more and more organisations start using Microsoft Live Communications Server, the real advantages of presence integration are extended beyond the borders of your own organisation. Through federation the LCS environments of external organisations can be linked to your internal network énabling presence integration and Real Time Communication with external organisations.…

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Open XML and ODF

A number of government(s) (agencies) are more open to open standards. Decisions have been made in Massachusetts and Denmark to evaluate/allow both ODF and Open XML. It is good to conclude that, at least concluding from this latest news, that organisations don’t view the 2 open standards as competitive, but…

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MSN & Live Earth

Great to see Microsoft contributing to the Live Earth event today : On Saturday, 7/07/07, MSN is sponsoring Live Earth, The Concert for a Climate in Crisis. This 24-hour global event will feature more than 150 of the world’s top bands performing on all seven continents, with concerts in Sydney,…

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MacroView is worldwide winner of the Microsoft Innovative Search Solutions competition

Tom Bizannes of MacroView Business Technology, a Microsoft Goldpartner emailed me this morning about their achievement: worldwide winner of the Innovative Search Solutions competition. Congratulations Tom MacroView has been judged the worldwide winner of the Innovative Search Solutions competition. Microsoft conducted that competition to showcase the business potential of the Search facilities in…

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