Cool bits about Office Communicator

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Our regular morning project scrum was cancelled for today, as I went back to my desk, I noticed that my Office Communicator has updated my status to "In a meeting". 

I checked my team members, theirs were updated too.

It knows this because Outlook told it about my calendar!

Another thing I liked was how you can add Active Directory groups (or possibly any outlook groups) directly as contact lists.  Which saves you the problem of adding new people (and possibly removing/maintaining your list).

That's very cool integration.  Well done MS.

An interesting quit smoking help

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A colleague mentioned a site quitext.com which is a quit smoking support website.  They send you daily SMS' to help encourage you to quit smoking.  You can also buy it as a gift for someone you know.

I don't think I'll ever smoke myself, but I can understand wanting to quit smoking can be very difficult at times.  It's good to have different ways to help out.

MIX08

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Everybody is blogging about it.  I'm not there, but still the amount of betas rolling out from Microsoft is making me very happy.

  • ASP.NET MVP beta 2
  • IE8 beta
  • Silverlight 2 beta 1
  • Expression 2.5

Colleague forwarded a news article to me where Microsoft is partnering up with Nokia to deliver Silverlight on the Symbian platform.  So that's going to make this platform very tidy.

Good times.

Watching news

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Giving up caring about the US Election.  Being following the US Election, and sadly I stopped caring when Ohio and Taxes voted for Hillary Clinton.  With the democrats continuing their in-fighting while the republicans relied behind one nominee, I just can't see the government switching to the democrats.

Great job, please continue to help the other party by destroying each other's credentials.