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Norman Law – Microsoft BING Product Manager, International Search

Posted Sep 19 2009 by in bing.com, Microsoft BING with 0 Comments

Varvid’s Aaron Booker speaks with Norman Law, the Microsoft BING Product Manager of International Search.

BING is Microsoft’s next evolution of the search engine, namely a decision engine.
At BING there are 3 main things they want to accomplish.
1. Deliver the best search results
2. Give the most organized results and help you make your decisions as quickly as possible
3. Help with key tasks in Health, Travel, Shopping, and Local

They have also designed a new website called Bingtweets which allows you to search realtime Twitter tweets and BING entries at the same time.

Sean Daniel – Senior Program Manager Windows SBS 2008

Posted Sep 18 2009 by in SBS, WPC with 0 Comments


Aaron Booker from Varvid interviews Sean Daniel, Senior Program Manager SBS 2008. He’s been seeing people back up their most important client PCs inside their business with Windows Home Server. If the computer crashes, you can bring back up in 15-20 minutes. Its a great solution for backing up clients. The Windows Small Business Server has been on the market since November 2008, and they are no longer selling SBS 2003, so now is the time to upgrade.

Richard Tubb – IT Consultant & Microsoft Small Business Specialist – Netlink IT in the UK

Posted Sep 17 2009 by with 0 Comments

Aaron Booker from Varvid interviews Richard Tubb, the IT Consultant & Microsoft Small Business Specialist of Netlink IT in the UK. They specialize in helping small businesses in the West Midlands of the UK. He’s a member of the HTG 11 group and the first HTG Group in the UK.

Varvid Interviews Scott Turner from Microsoft at #WPC09

Posted Sep 17 2009 by in Microsoft Partner Network with 0 Comments

Aaron Booker from Varvid interviews Scott Turner who is the Channel Development Manager – Transaction Partners. He’s the World Wide Channel Development Manager responsible for listening to the voice of the partner to drive simplification of the licensing ecosystem. Also responsible for the field sales force called the Partner territory manager. They increase the number of partners interacting in the VARS space. He’s trying to drive licensing training in the channel. Visit the new Microsoft Partner licensing website with a host of new training resources available.

Google announces new OS to compete with Microsoft

Posted Jul 8 2009 by in Win7 with 1 Comment

The New York Times this morning has an insightful article about Google’s new Chrome Operating System (now more than a browser!).  Google is thinking that a netbook optimized OS will be successful for them, and that’s what Chrome is.  The browser will be the OS, the OS will be the browser.

Well worth reading – the key issue with this whole move into operating systems is well stated by the reporter – “But while Google has deep pockets and a vast reach, it is in for a difficult battle when it comes to challenging Microsoft in the operating system market. Many companies have tried this over the years, with little success.”

Big move by Google.  It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out.  To date, Android (despite early and considerable hype) isn’t exactly taking the mobile marketplace by storm.  Google is facing Win7 and possibly some sort of Mac tablet/netbook as well as other linux distributions.  I haven’t run Win7 on a netbook yet, but it’s AWESOME in Fusion on my Macbook Pro, so I expect it’ll perform amazingly well on netbook hardware.  (Win7 is faster than XP Pro was in my virtual machine)

I think that Win7 is really going to surprise a lot of people – it’s got all the advantages of Vista, but the speed is what is most impressive.  The other killer feature is that this OS speed is combined with true and fast universal search. The reason I live in Fusion instead of the Mac natively is because the built in search in Vista/Win7 is so excellent. Spotlight on the Mac was first to market but hasn’t improved much since in my opinion.  For a couple of years, I’ve opened all my applications by searching for them – ie “Word” instead of fumbling around in Programs, Microsoft Office, etc…

Watch here at Varvid.com next week for video coverage of Win7 from Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference.  We think that Win7 is the biggest story of the coming year for Solution Providers, so we’re focusing on it at WPC.  In our opinion, Win7 is ready for primetime today - and it’s still a release candidate…

Update – looks like we’re not the only people who see this OS the same way – Ed Molzen over at ChannelWeb says much the same…

Speed Dating with Microsoft

Posted Apr 23 2009 by in Conferences with 0 Comments


Speed Dating with Microsoft at HTG Summit – Response Point, Windows 7, Local Engagement, and more.

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