Microsoft Ireland is hosting a series of half-day corporate briefings across Ireland in February and March about the future of Windows "Many of our customers will be making the move to the Windows 32-bit desktop this year," says Mary-Ruth McDaid of Microsoft Ireland. "As a result, Microsoft and our Solution Providers have organised these briefings to ensure all technical staff plan this deployment using the latest technologies and tools available." Contact Microsoft for details.
February 10th: "Can anyone stop Manchester United?" (Answer: Leicester City, heh-heh). Chat with Man U Web site editors and journos from FourFourTwo at www.virgin.net (7 p.m.)
February 13th: Professor Van Ginkely, new Rector of the United Nations University, will launch Incore's Web-based service on conflict resolution and ethnicity, at the University of Ulster's Magee campus (see www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds).
February 13th: Chat with crime novelist Elmore Leonard (1 a.m. at www.barnesandnoble.com).
February 19th: Information meeting for principals and postprimary teachers in the Limerick region on "ICT 2000 - The European Dimension, Opportunities and Possibilities", Limerick Education Centre, 7.30 p.m.
- info: tel Noel Malone, email copsewd@iol.ie