With time as they are, I always find it really interesting to hear from our executives on their views of how we manage now and what the future looks like Kevin Turner, our COO, said of how we should approach the next year that we should only focus on the things that we can have an affect on: Transcript...

After settling at my desk this morning and opening up my inbox to review my overnight email, the highlight of the list was an email from Steve Ballmer about Microsoft’s efforts with addressing global environmental challenges by focusing on three core areas: 1) Using Information Technology to Improve...

Apologies for my silence last week.....I was at the annual Microsoft internal conference which took place in Atlanta This is my 3rd conference of this type and as cheesy as it sounds, I am still humbled to be in a room with over 12,000 peers and colleagues from around the world. Not to mention the passion...

Microsoft is implementing four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions across its high-volume business products: (1) ensuring open connections (2) promoting data portability (3) enhancing support for industry standards (4) fostering more open engagement with customers and the industry...

Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors. Specifically, Microsoft is implementing...

This has casued quite a stir in the office today! Microsoft Corp. has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo Inc. with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest bid yet to challenge Google Inc.’s dominance of the lucrative online search and advertising markets. The offer of...

TechEd 2007: Microsoft touts Dynamic IT Microsoft Announces New Virtualization Offerings, Windows Server 2008 ... Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack Sets Sales Record The first service pack for 2007 Microsoft Office system will be available in early 2008 Microsoft Offers...

I stumbled across this post yesterday on Bink.nu Blog about some really interesting Microsoft internal IT numbers: Microsoft internal IT: 600k connected devices 10,000 Servers 3 Datacenters 1 operations center 11% is virtualized in Microsoft Datacenters 330 of 385 servers run Windows Server 2008...

I have been back for several weeks now from my trip to Orlando, where we had a big Microsoft conference with Microsoft employees from all over the world. It is quite a sight to see 10,000 Microsoft employees in one place, and even more interesting to see the English reserve in comparison to the Russian...