Category Archives: Microsoft
FIX: Protected View error opening Office documents from Outlook
Quick Fix: Go to Outlook Click File tab, then Options and finally Advanced Now scroll down to “Display” and check the “Disable hardware graphics acceleration” option According to a post by “David at DRA” this is due to a graphics … Continue reading
Microsoft Windows Search Filter Host – High CPU on Windows 8 – FIXED (Look at your PDF iFilter)
If you don’t want to read any of this article and just want to fix the problem that I found: It turned out to be a problem with the iFilter for PDFs within Microsoft Windows Search Filter Host specifically 64 … Continue reading
Oh Cortana, how you surprise me in positive ways
Quick background So I’m a geek and I enrolled in the Windows Phone dev preview program so I could get Windows Phone 8.1 onto my Lumia 925 asap. I have been really pleased with many of the updates e.g. action … Continue reading
How will the 14% Challenger mindset shape Microsoft’s FY15?
Obviously this is what Satya Nadella and his executive team at Microsoft are paid the big $s for. But here are my thoughts and observations: In the good old days IBM sold you the hardware and gave you the software. … Continue reading
WPC 2014 – 14% market share admission is potentially the most significant message
As mentioned in a previous blog post (Microsoft WPC Day 3) there were very few major announcements at Microsoft #WPC14 and nothing with a “WOW” factor. Maybe this is to be expected. Satya Nadella is relatively new in role and … Continue reading
Microsoft WPC Day 3 – Vision Keynotes
Although there were no big “wow” announcements, there were things that caught my attention. Summary below. Tiffani Bova, VP, Gartner Research. We live in a world of customer experiences. However too many businesses are still trying sell the underlying product. … Continue reading
Internet of (Your) Things – market size
At a WPC session Microsoft shared some research from IDC about the market size/opportunity in the IoT space. It’s big… 2014 – USD1.93T 2018 – USD4.93T
Change is difficult – benefit you can see vs future promise aka The Marshmallow experiment
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) Over the years I have spent a lot of time working with partners to help then through the challenges of changing their businesses to support a cloud model. The bottom line change is … Continue reading
Microsoft WPC 2014
Microsoft’s annual event aimed at their partner community, Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), is timed at the beginning of the Microsoft financial year. This means that it is the perfect opportunity for Microsoft to lay out their key messaging for the … Continue reading
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