Anith Gopal

One of the themes from the UCISA conference this year, from the first keynote on, was the possibility of massive upheaval in the higher education sector in the UK. Tough spending reviews, new ways of doing things and the very imminent possibility of multiple mergers and acquisitions between universities in the UK.

Well, I’m flying today – down to Arizona to film at the SQL Server Worldwide User Group (SSWUG) online conference I mentioned a while back.

Zbliża się PDC09. Na poprzedniej edycji tej konferencji osobiście byłem i muszę powiedzieć, że jak do tej pory była to najlepsza konferencja technologiczna w jakiej uczestniczyłem

I’m speaking at quite a few places in the next few months, from here in Seattle to Florida and Berlin, Germany. I did want to point out the PASS event, although I’m sure you’ve been alerted to it already. I’ll be speaking at PASS on everything from Performance Tuning to PowerShell and SQL Server.

When it comes to engineering good software, your security is one of our highest priorities. To learn more about the measures we’ve taken to prevent hackers from attacking your computer, check out this post from the Office 2010 Engineering blog . Here’s a snippet: “…we have designed what we have been referring to as a new security workflow, a layered defense that Office documents have to go through as part of the File Open process.

Have you ever gotten lost in a giant presentation? You know the feeling

Na konferencji WPC (World Partner Conference) ogłoszono zmiany w programie partnerskim Microsoft . Począwszy od nazwy: Microsoft Partner Network , aż cech i możliwości dla partnerów.

The following is an excerpt from Investor’s Business Daily: Microsoft ( MSFT ), the software giant, increased its market share in U.S. Web searches to 8.23% in June from 7.81% in May, thanks to its new Bing search site, according to tracking firm StatCounter. Web search king Google ( GOOG ) lost share slightly, dipping to 78.48% from 78.72%.

I stopped by the NCWIT booth at NECC today (it’s a partner booth outside room 147A in the conference center) and they asked me to blog about their Gotta Have IT materials.

One of the stories that is circulating around the Internet this week is the announced imminent closure of the SORBS blocklist.  Al Iverson of SpamResource has a good summary of it.  SORBS has had its share of criticism in the past, however.  From Wikipedia : Spam database removal procedure In order for IP addresses that have spammed in the past to be removed from the spam database, SORBS requires what it calls a "fine" in the form of a US$50 donation to a registered charity. This donation is only required for deletions from the spam database that have not expired automatically, and it is waived both for IP addresses that have been reallocated elsewhere or if the ISP implements outbound content-based spam countermeasures.

Pedro Molina has blogged about his experience at the code generation conference in Cambridge. Pedro was one of the folks with whom I had some great discussions, and his commentary on the conference is well worth reading

You can find Microsoft Surface at the Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals conference in Anaheim this week. We’ll be there through Thursday. You can follow the Microsoft Hospitality team – Barry Fridley on his blog or his Twitter feed or Michael Raheem on his Twitter feed