Gary Duffield’s blogs
47 items found
Page 1 of 6
Cloud, surely its as much about attitude as altitude.
14 June 2011
One of the best things about my job has always been the involvement with customers at the start of their technology journey. Often many months before their strategies are formed and a long time before they need a course. This seems to be the case with cloud. You say “deploy” I say subscribe, you say install, I say “click here”.
A self-indulgent two part retrospective of my first 25 years in IT and at QA – Part 1
31 January 2011
Recently I clocked up 25 years working in IT, and 25 years working with the company that evolved into QA. I’ve been lucky enough to turn a passion into a career, but on reflection, it’s not luck at all, learning and development has been fundamental in making me the man I am today. I’ll get my coat…
Windows XP : the end of the road for the certification
24 January 2011
One of Microsoft’s truly global certification success stories is finally having time called. If you have an MCDST certification, there is some good news. If you fancy the MCDST, time is running out.
Are you a learning and development professional? Did you know that you may already have a social learning tool just waiting to be discovered?
06 January 2011
The way we demand and consume learning is evolving. When the iPod generation need to “know” something they are more likely to turn to Bing than the bookshelf.
Time to dust off our MCSE and MCSA certificates, especially if we work for a Microsoft partner
14 October 2010
It’s funny how many of us have a plan to upgrade our mobile phones, for newer models with more features for us to not use, yet we don’t have a plan to upgrade our Microsoft certifications. Shame. After all…
No more Microsoft Certified Partners anymore
06 October 2010
As Microsoft emerged from the “desktop operating systems only” chrysalis and flapped its wings as an enterprise solutions company it needed a partner ecosystem to sells its wares...
My name is Gary Duffield and I’ve just uploaded my first ever YouTube video…
24 September 2010
...I mean all my friends are doing it, I thought it would be ok, it’s only a 5 minute video of the IE9 beta I blogged about recently. That can’t hurt, can it?
IE9 – Has Microsoft finally found its web mojo again?
19 September 2010
There are some questions that divide the IT nation; you know the ones, MAC or PC? Linux or Windows? Internet Explorer or Firefox / Chrome / Opera? Well maybe the waters just got muddied. Ladies and Gentleman, introducing in the Blue Microsoft Corner, Internet Explorer 9 – and I like it...
Page 1 of 6