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		<title>Does Windows BitLocker spell the end of the office loan laptop?</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/11/13/does-windows-bitlocker-spell-the-end-of-the-office-loan-laptop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cassidy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This has been an interesting week for the USB key.
No really; the ubiquitous key, which has been implicated in incidents of corporate data loss around the world, now occupies a central role in Microsoft&#8217;s view of corporate security.
Far from being the main means by which secrets slip out of your organisation, the Microsoft security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft still unsure of Windows 7 success?</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/11/10/microsoft-still-unsure-of-windows-7-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cassidy</dc:creator>
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There are a few signs here at TechEd that Microsoft wasn&#8217;t quite as sure about the runaway success of Windows 7 as its fanboys (me included).
In planning the layout of the show stalls in the exhibition halls, Microsoft has ensured plenty of space to gently introduce skeptics to its new hot product. You can wander [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft shows courage at Tech-Ed 09</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/11/09/microsoft-shows-courage-at-tech-ed-09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/11/09/microsoft-shows-courage-at-tech-ed-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cassidy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The initial signs for this year&#8217;s Tech-Ed Europe - Microsoft&#8217;s annual get-together for its product gurus, partners and IT professionals &#8211; being the sort of show rich with standing ovations are not good.
Microsoft is in Berlin around the celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, just after U2 has smeared the town with its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Windows 7 retail experience</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/22/the-windows-7-retail-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/22/the-windows-7-retail-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cassidy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, I didn&#8217;t get up early for the Windows 7 launch and no, I didn&#8217;t queue &#8211; though clearly, by the time I staggered to my nearest PC World, there had been some sort of stampede of the faithful.  They must have been frightfully early too because just before lunchtime, I was out of luck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Look: Dell PowerEdge R510 rackmount server</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/19/first-look-dell-poweredge-r510-rackmount/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/19/first-look-dell-poweredge-r510-rackmount/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cassidy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real World Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hyperV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rackmount]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows 2008]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Announced last Friday, a Dell PowerEdge R510 mid to low-end rackmount server has landed with a light-ish thud in my corporate testbed facility. I might be joking about the corporate testbed, but I&#8217;m not joking about the lightness: having just seen the bruises fade away after shifting my stock of HP LP2000Rs (by donating them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mystery of Vodafone&#8217;s mobile broadband filtering</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/08/idiot-big-brother/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/08/idiot-big-brother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cassidy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever your views on porn, I&#8217;m sure you will agree with me when I say that content filtering just seems like such a good idea. How nice to be able to decide what you see, especially when it seems that makers of adult materials go through occasional phases of trying their utmost to stick something [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Google and Firewalls, round one</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/05/google-and-firewalls-round-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/05/google-and-firewalls-round-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cassidy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mailbox has been filling up with pleas for an end to confusion. Not globally, just in the tiny bit of the sum total of human achievement which concerns Google and their applications.
For ages, I have been telling everyone within reach to get themselves a hardware firewall. I hate the fact that &#8220;Firewall&#8221; has come [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>How many MIPS is Honeyball holding?</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/28/how-many-mips-is-honeyball-holding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/28/how-many-mips-is-honeyball-holding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cassidy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real World Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ This picture shows PC Pro contributing editor Jon Honeyball cuddling an entire fabrication wafer of Intel&#8217;s Nehalem generation of Xeons.
Pardon the overall fidelity and quality of the shot but these opportunities don&#8217;t come up often, and it was in the middle of an auditorium of journalists, waiting their chance to fondle the wafer case [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nowhere near Vulcan</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/13/nowhere-near-vulcan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/13/nowhere-near-vulcan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cassidy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[conduct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[france telecom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The usual reaction of a negative person, in a discussion about negativity, is &#8220;huh, you would say that&#8221; &#8211; but I think  this BBC article on France Telecom &#38; Suicides  counts as a bit of a wake-up call. I can&#8217;t say that I strictly approve of the practice of going to your appraisal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cast away with Windows 7</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/07/cast-away-with-windows-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/07/cast-away-with-windows-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cassidy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not strictly cast away &#8211; and not strictly Windows 7, considering it was the Release Candidate. However, I did indeed spend a week on a boat with Windows 7 and a Vodafone 3G data dongle as my only contact with the outside world. Was this a careful benchmark test? No. It was getting up [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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