I ve heard in the community over the last few weeks a growing concern about various aspects of HP s products and service/support. A large amount of this is coming from the Australian partner community. I ve taken a number of those concerns direct to HP for their input and they are mobilising a team to better understand and address the issues. In the interim, can I ask that … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2009
Susan saves the world with a zipper
The one and only SBSDiva Susan Bradley has taken it upon herself to get out there before the launch of Windows 7 and save the world with her one woman marketing campaign. Susan has had this cool logo created to help promote the fact that User Account Control should be left ON in Windows 7. This much despised feature of Windows Vista has been massively improved in Windows 7 … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2008 and Vista Service Pack 2
Well after months of testing the first service pack for Windows Server 2008 was released Service Pack 2 yes that sound strange doesn t it the first Service Pack for Server 2008 is SP2, that is because Server 2008 was released at SP1 level because it shares the same code base as Windows Vista. So Microsoft have now created Service Pack 2 which applies to both Vista … [Read more...]
SaaS / Cloud Computing interesting concern
Microsoft today announced they will block access to MSN Instant Messenger for 5 countries on a sanction list according to the US government. CRN reported it here Ok so with all the hype about cloud computing, the users are not supposed to care where there data is as it s in the cloud . Here s the catch what if your data actually resides on servers on foreign soil and … [Read more...]
Sarah Arnold begins blogging aka Australian MS Partner Program
For those that have never met her, Sarah Arnold is the Partner Program Manager at Microsoft Australia. Sarah recently began a new blog focused on the needs of the Australian Partner channel. Her blog can be reached here http://blogs.msdn.com/auspartners/ She also has a cool MSN widget on her blog that allows you to IM direct from the webpage to her if she is online. She is … [Read more...]