Xbox Live Arcade Games – Faith Somewhat Restored

In principle I think Xbox Live Arcade Games are a great idea Games that you can download quickly and easily and get playing with the minimum of fuss. Decent demos so you can try before you buy at a “reasonable” price point The thing is recently I’ve found some of them to be a bit….crap

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Microsoft Partner Network: 2009

I’ve been asked to spread the word about an upcoming event On Wednesday 7 October, the Microsoft UK team will be inviting partners to the number one UK channel event, Microsoft Partner Network: 2009 at Wembley Stadium. This free event will give attendees  insights into current Microsoft strategies and the direction the company is taking

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Bletchley Park Funding

I’ve blogged a couple of times about Bletchley Park It’s no secret in the UK that funding for the site is hard to come by For some reason it’s not eligible for lottery funding or any of the government funding that goes into museums and galleries so relies on admissions fees and donations(IBM and PGP

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Can’t set message flags in OWA using IE8

Busy busy weekend to go before the busy week I’m expecting! This morning I got a call from a remote user to say they couldn’t set message flags when using Outlook Web Access (Exchange 2003) I logged into an account on the same server and had no problems setting the flag Then I discovered they

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Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

In case you have been living under a rock Windows 7 RTM was made available to Technet and MSDN subscribers yesterday I grabbed my ISO’s this morning and was thinking about how best to approach the upgrade on my netbook. I then remembered that when Vista was first released there was a tool for letting

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