Last week, I got the news from Microsoft that I was once again worthy of the MVP award for my community contributions and technical expertise on Windows Server for Small and Medium Business. This is now the start of my 14th year of receiving this award from Microsoft and I’m one of only 43 in the world, and one of 3 here in Australia. To be honest – the last 2 years, … [Read more...]
25GB for free on SkyDrive
I found out today via some MVP buddies, that Microsoft have released a free 25GB upgrade for users of SkyDrive. You can find out more about it here. I’ve used SkyDrive in the past but have more recently moved everything over to TrendMicro SafeSync for Business which suits me just fine. I did that because I could not get more than the 7GB with SkyDrive and with … [Read more...]
Cloud Hype – is it just hype?
Fellow SBS MVP Tim Barrett has a good post here about how Microsoft believe that 58% of our SMB clients want to move to the cloud as it will make them more competitive. He goes on to say that many clients are moving to the cloud simply so they won’t get left behind. Personally I think that there are much better things that customers can do to make themselves more competitive … [Read more...]
Microsoft slashes benefits for TechNet subscribers but not the price
Microsoft have made a few revisions to the licenses provided under the TechNet subscription over the past few years, and have just indicated they will make yet another change which reduces your licenses to 3 per OS and application. Ed Bott reports here about the changes being made. They say that they’ve done this in order to “protect your value in the subscription”. … [Read more...]
Microsoft MVP awarded again – 11 years running
Wow… It’s that time of the year again when Microsoft announce the MVP awards. I just received email from them indicating that I’ve been nominated for another year of service to the community. Thank you. Below is what Steve Ballmer says of the MVP community. In particular the thing I value the most is being an independent voice to Microsoft of the views … [Read more...]