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As many of you know, I returned from Alaska mid-September. It has taken me this long to try and find the words to describe what I saw, how I felt, and how it has changed me. Above, see for yourself, what appears to be giant blue sapphires are really chunks of glacier ice. Forged over countless millennium and more beautiful than any diamond. I will never forget these jewels, these drifting giants. In total quiet they ride the current until another explosion is heard in the distance echoing throughout the fjord. Another blue gem has been born. | In This Issue |
| September 2013 | Alaska Microsoft Update Stop Procrastinating |
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Alaska, Sweet Alaska This brief article only begins to speak to the grandeur, the unending natural beauty, the seemingly untouched coastline, the Our voyage included stops in Skagway, Ketchikan, Juneau, Tracy Arms, Misty Fjords and more. I am hard-pressed to come up with the words to describe the scope and depth of the natural beauty I had the privilege of seeing. With my camera in hand, I attempted to record my experience. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. You can see more of my pictures to Vancouver and Alaska by clicking the photo. I quickly conceded that I would never be able to capture the 360 degree beauty mile after mile, day after day. It wasn't the exciting things we did, the zip-lining nor the float plane at 6,000 feet. It wasn't even the dozen whales we saw breathing and diving, breathing and diving. It wasn't the island chock full of sea lions for their annual mating season gathering. It was the sheer and utter peace and serenity that seemed to go on forever. Whether we were basking in sunshine or bathed by the dense fog, the beauty was always breathtaking. The quiet. The whisper of nature. It makes me well up. I reconciled myself to knowing the experience would have to live on forever in my mind's eye.
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Microsoft Update
As a Microsoft Cloud Partner and member of the Microsoft SMB Champions Club, I was invited to Microsoft in Cambridge for a day-long session on what is coming. Here are just a few notable items I wanted to report:
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eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonalds. Enough for a T-Mobile unlimited data plan for a month. And if you listen to moneysavingmom.com, enough to eat for a week. We also know what fun it is to try and catch a flight at 9AM never knowing what the traffic will be like at 7AM. 
integrated applications. This month, I wanted to mention that we write software that communicates with Microsoft Office and in particular, Microsoft Outlook. Outlook is one of Microsoft's better applications, especially when it is tied to Exchange Online as we have been promoting for some time. 
Wallet, Windows Live and XBox Live, Microsoft has created a database the size of the NSA. Well maybe not. But it is big. Now with the addition of Windows 8, your Microsoft Live account stores your Windows preferences. Things that you used to set for each computer can now be automatic and synchronized between all your Windows 8 computers. Sounds great, doesn't it? Your favorite web sites, Smartdrive file sharing, your Windows themes, your background picture and even your Ribbon Menu customized settings. Sounds fabulous.
screen desktop PC. I do not use it in the office! I do not have XBox 360. I do not have a Windows phone. So my level of understanding a screen swipe is limited to an iPhone, iTouch and iPad. 
Yes, this is the trend we see in Microsoft and now Adobe. We see it in anti-virus software like Trend Micro and news publications like Time Magazine. As you know, we have been a proponent of Office 365 for a while now. It is inexpensive and provides the latest available software. We also see other companies following suit. Autodesk, Azimio, IBM, Intuit, and others.