3 months before I moved out here and started working at Microsoft, a friend of mine told me: "KC, you need a pilot... because you have the organizational Zen, but not the tools required to implement it". Little did I know that I would shortly find that...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights. Moreover, I'm describing the history of the situation from when I actively worked on this area several years ago. Some things may have changed since then. I started my career at...

This is one of those features that a lot of people love to hate, where you have to wait a few seconds or go to the little chevron on the bottom of the menu to expand it: It doesn't bug me too much - except when it hides the MRU (most recently used...

Printer or service? The answer relies on a combination of your comfort level with digital photo manipulation and color management, the amount of time you have to spare (or are willing to spend on printing), your level of patience/need for instant gratification...

When I worked on OWA, I used NetMon a lot to do sniffs of the traffic between client and server. Although NetMon is powerful, it's a bit overkill for quick & dirty checks. A coworker just pointed me at IEHttpHeaders , which is a nifty addin that adds...

When you type ":-)" in Word, it automatically corrects it into a smiley ( J )[1], which is the letter J in the Wingdings font. If you look at the HTML, you'll see: <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:maroon'>J</span>...

I have been suffering with this problem on my Toshiba Tablet m200 for quite some time, and finally took the initiative to research the issue. At first I thought I was the only one dealing with this so I figured it was hardware specific, but when I asked...

We recently had a debate on the internal bloggers distribution list about how MSDN bloggers need to play nice and not hard-code their font faces, colors and sizes. I admit that I'd been guilty of this myself, so I've since resolved to stop doing that...