IT Asset Management has taken up quite a bit of my time over the years. Creating the “IT Inventory” is often a challenge in an organisation, building and keeping accurate records of hardware and software once the number of devices grows can be difficult and isn’t a “do-once and forget” task. It’s common to start with a …

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Well, not always… A recent case at work has reinforced an idea I have long since held that often blame is assigned to the technology (or the technical staff maintaining it) when the behaviour would be quite different if a computer was not involved.

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The release of Windows 7 generally getting good feedback from users, especially compared to Vista, comes as no surprise. Vista is, when you actually look at it, not a bad OS- I’m still running it on my main home PC and I haven’t had to reinstall it, my applications work, and I’ve never had any virus or malware problems …

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