I’m at an internal conference for my employer. During the keynote, a video was shown that shows the progression of Information Technology. There’s some really interesting facts in this video…well worth a read even for those not in IT.

The video itself was posted a year ago, so a lot has changed since .

Here’s the video:

The link below contains a listing of the official Microsoft Team Blogs and essential web feeds organised by category: http://blogs.technet.com/blogms/pages/directory-of-microsoft-team-blogs.aspx.

I’ve been following the Microsoft Learning’s Born to Learn blog for some time now. I’ve seen a number of public invitations for Beta exams. There’s a great post on this blog which will give you more insight on how to get invited to take a Beta exam. It can be found here: http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/2009/09/understanding-the-beta-invite-process.

Microsoft started publishing the number of MCPs worldwide, broken down by credential on their Microsoft Learning site. The list can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-overview.aspx#tab5.

If you drill down a little further on this site, you’ll also find the number of MCAs and MCMs. Here’s the direct link for this information: https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/master.aspx#meet

Mohammad Akif, National Security and Privacy Lead at Microsoft Canada, posted a blog on the Canadian IT Professionals blog announcing two critical security bulletins that were recently released. Here’s a snippet from the post:

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There is a great YouTube video on the progression of information technology. It’s worth a look…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY.

Microsoft has created a new team that is responsible for automating the steps in KB articles and Windows Error Reporting (WER) solutions so that you can click a button and have the issue resolved.

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Windows Live Essentials was released to the public on January 7th. The news can be read here.

I’ve been using the beta for a number of months now. I’ve done a lot of work with Windows Live Mail. One of the things I like most about Windows Live Mail is the ability to mail, newsgroups, and feeds into a single program. I have also used Windows Live Writer quite extensively over the past few months and I am very impressed with it’s capabilities.

The new Windows Live Essentials can be downloaded from http://download.live.com/