Using Windows is something that most of us do every day, but you probably don’t realise just how much. A friend sent me this internal video that shows a “day in the life” of an average chap and just how many times he comes across a Windows device, be it embedded or other wise. Very nice, very simple….I really didn’t realise the Vacuum cleaner shown ran Windows….
Oh and for those who don’t know…SCCM 2012 can now manage many of these devices 
Yesterday I did a turn for a great group of CTOs associated to a variety of hedge funds. As promised here is my deck from the day.
For a Computer Weekly Social Media Award…
Which is kind of cool and I’d really appreciate you taking 5 minutes (probably less) to vote here for Simon-May.com which is listed in the IT Professional section, although I’d also like you to vote for Rich.
I quite often get asked to talk about what the future will be like and this video is excellent, it shows lots of augmented reality and the like but what really inspires me is the context computing you throughout. Switch context, switch interface.
In this world concerned with consumerised IT where almost everyone is familiar with using a browser of some description and many are bombarded by messages about how “fast” the internet can be if you use browser X, it really is important to…(read more)
There are plenty of people out there still using Windows XP, however many parts of the operating system have needed to be updated in order to keep things going. There have been three service packs released for Windows XP since it’s inception and…(read more)
This one-day online conference features a range of sessions specially tailored for IT Pros and covering the big challenges for the year ahead.
Join Microsoft experts plus professionals from IT departments around the UK to discuss topics such as how we will embrace the influx of consumer devices into the workplace; the new features available through SQL Server Denali; and how Windows Azure can help you make sense of your Cloud offering. I’m really excited by this conference as we’re going to be using some great Microsoft Valued Professionals and some of our UK technical community who are really on the tools to share their experience.
The conference will be presented through LiveMeeting, and throughout the sessions you’ll be able to interact and pose your questions on the topics.
Date & Time – 27 October 2011, 09:00-16:00
Registration & Detailed Agenda – WWE
Further Information – TechNet Blog
A few weeks ago I was in a Telegraph supplement talking about cloud. Here’s the online version of the article on the Telegraph (UK national newspaper) website.
Windows Azure has now been around long enough to be a mature platform for building services on and as such IT Professionals are being asked to look at the service. Of course IT Pros are looking for slightly different things from a platform than others…(read more)
One of our UK TechNet readers, Christopher Latham, wrote to me a couple of weeks ago looking for help with some research he’s undertaking for his MSc Dissertation and the subject “ Cloud Computing adoption in SMEs” is something that I’m really interested…(read more)
Simon is an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft UK, everything here is his own thoughts and opinion.
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