Thoughts from Microsoft Ireland

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7/17/2020

A random collection of news and links about Microsoft Ireland by Tom Murphy

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Released

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been released to Windows Update and the Microsoft Download...

Author: tomurphy Date: 03/19/2008

Microsoft Announces New Accessibility Tools and Resources for Developers

Microsoft has launched a new online resource and released two new open-source accessibility testing...

Author: tomurphy Date: 03/18/2008

Irish teacher wins European Innovative Teacher award!

Kate O'Connell, a teacher at Scoil Mhuire Kilvemnon, Mullinahone in Tipperary won First place at the...

Author: tomurphy Date: 03/18/2008

Windows Live.ie - Now available

If you're interested in signing up for Windows Live services such as Instant Messaging, Hotmail,...

Author: tomurphy Date: 03/14/2008

Lorraine Keane, Caroline Casey and Senior Business Women Address Microsoft Employees on the Meaning of Success

Dublin: 12th March 2008 - Earlier today two of Ireland’s best know women, Lorraine Keane,...

Author: tomurphy Date: 03/12/2008

Digital Society: Volume 2, Issue 1 Published

If you want to find out what's going on at Microsoft Ireland, why not download the...

Author: tomurphy Date: 03/12/2008

Windows Server 2008 Launched in Ireland

Dublin: March 11th 2008 - The official Irish launch of Windows Server 2008; SQL Server 2008; and...

Author: tomurphy Date: 03/11/2008

Dublin Inner City IT training centres upgraded

Minister of State Pat Carey today announced that ten Digital Community Centres across the inner city...

Author: tomurphy Date: 03/05/2008

There's a makeITsecure seminar planned for next Friday (8.30am, February 22nd, 2008, Conrad Hotel,...

Author: tomurphy Date: 02/15/2008

Irish Knights Get a New Roundtable

Last week we announced that Irish customers can now purchase Microsoft RoundTable. It's an...

Author: tomurphy Date: 02/11/2008

Help Irish charities to take advantage of technology

Since the Technology Donations programme launched just before Christmas, Irish charities have...

Author: tomurphy Date: 02/07/2008

Microsoft Ireland Launches Staff Volunteering Programme

We've just launched a new staff volunteering programme. Every full time employee at Microsoft...

Author: tomurphy Date: 02/06/2008

The rise of "creative capitalism"

During his keynote address at the World Economic Forum last week, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates...

Author: tomurphy Date: 01/28/2008

Microsoft and Dell Launch (RED) Products

Earlier today Microsoft and Dell announced plans to provide (PRODUCT) RED branded Dell personal...

Author: tomurphy Date: 01/24/2008

Minister Hanafin addresses Government Leaders Forum in Berlin

The Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin T.D., today delivered a keynote address to the...

Author: tomurphy Date: 01/23/2008

Microsoft Postgraduate Research Scholarships awarded to DCU students

Four students in the School of Computing at Dublin City University, have been awarded scholarships...

Author: tomurphy Date: 01/21/2008

Microsoft Provides Accessibility Programming Model to Industry Group

Earlier today Microsoft announced that it has committed to contribute its UI Automation...

Author: tomurphy Date: 01/17/2008

Bill's last day at Microsoft

From Bill's keynote at the CES show. You can watch the full keynote here.

Author: tomurphy Date: 01/08/2008

What about hardware donations for non-profits in Ireland?

A quick follow up post on the announcement of the Technology Donations programme last month. [Quick...

Author: tomurphy Date: 01/03/2008

CSR in Korea - the Irish link

Keith Morrison is an Irishman working for the Edelman PR firm in South Korea. He writes for...

Author: tomurphy Date: 01/02/2008

New Technology Donation Programme for Every Non-Profit Organisation in Ireland

Earlier today a new national technology donations for non profit organisations in Ireland was...

Author: tomurphy Date: 12/12/2007

Service Pack 1 for 2007 Office Released

Service Pack 1 for 2007 Microsoft Office system, which delivers a range of stability, performance...

Author: tomurphy Date: 12/11/2007

Are you a Moofer?

There's no doubt that our working environment is changing, and from the UK we have a new term MOOF...

Author: tomurphy Date: 12/11/2007

New Industry Alliance Formed to Address Accessibility and Interoperability

A group of information and assistive technology companies today announced the Accessibility...

Author: tomurphy Date: 12/10/2007

Assistive Technology Graduation

Earlier this week we hosted this year's Enable Ireland National High-Tech Assistive Technlogy (AT)...

Author: tomurphy Date: 12/06/2007

Changing Lives with Technology

While many things are purported to be "life changing", in reality very few things actually...

Author: tomurphy Date: 12/02/2007

Interested in finding out about CSR in Ireland?

If your interested in what kind of Corporate Social Responsibility programmes are being undertaken...

Author: tomurphy Date: 11/30/2007

Mashup Camp in Dublin...

Earlier this month US ZDNet journalist David Berlind and Doug Gold brought their Mashup Camp to...

Author: tomurphy Date: 11/27/2007

Web-based Outlining..

Windows Live Labs has released a beta of an interesting new service: Listas. Listas is an online...

Author: tomurphy Date: 11/25/2007

Easing the pain of managing files and folders...

If you're like me you probably have files and folders in a range of different locations -- maybe...