“Undocumented Feature” (i.e., bug) in MSIE8

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Free software is nice, and free updates of new features to existing software is usually terrific. I experienced a bit of a difficulty with one of my latest free software updates, and I thought I’d share it with you, my readers, to save you some heartache. NetFlix is a pretty popular movie rental service – [...]

Get Ready for Windows 7

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Would you like your school to be on the cutting edge of technology, inexpensively? After lackluster public opinion of Windows Vista, Microsoft went back to the drawing board and expedited development of their next operating system, Windows 7. It has not yet been released to the general public, but I’ve seen a demonstration of it. [...]

Representing Maverick at Tech-Ed

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Wow – has it been that long since the last entry?! We’ve gotta start taking this more seriously. Anyway, we just wanted to report that Brian has been asked to come back to staff Microsoft Tech-Ed again this year. Moving up the food chain slightly, this year, he’ll be moderating a discussion group on Wednesday [...]

Brian Goes to Washington

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

…Washington State, that is. Our president and founder, Brian Blum, was just invited to participate in an exam development session for the upcoming certification program for the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which means he’ll finally have an excuse to visit the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. If he didn’t know it before, now he’s [...]

Microsoft Tech·Ed 2008

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Maverick Solutions’ founder and president, Brian Blum, has been selected to serve on the staff of Microsoft’s Tech·Ed conference, in June, in Orlando, FL. If you’ve never heard of Tech·Ed, here’s what Microsoft has to say about it: “Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2008 IT Professionals is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for IT [...]

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