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We’ve all had that moment in email – when you hit send and realize the attachment you meant to add wasn’t actually attached. No more, thanks to the work of Bhavesh Chauhan, a Microsoft engineer, and The Garage. I’ve mentioned The Garage a few times here on NEXT – a grass...

Back in the early days of Microsoft, our mission was to put a PC on every desk and in every home — an ambitious goal for the time. Behind that was the conviction that computer technology had the innate capacity to enrich peoples’ lives. The trick was applying it in a way that made sense,...

I’m tempted to say Josh and the team at The Verge saved the best until last in their video series from the Underground Tour of Microsoft – but that’d be doing a dis-service to all of the other places and people they met recently. However, a step inside of the Applied Sciences Lab and...

The next installment from the recent Underground Tour I hosted with Josh Topolosky and Chad Mumm of The Verge just posted on their site. This time, it’s a look inside The Envisioning Lab at Microsoft , with my buddy Harald Becker. Josh gets to play with a 28ft touch screen wall as well as some...

If you send me an email today, this is the Out of Office message (aka OOF) you will receive*. As you can see, I’m on something of an anthropologic adventure this week – something we internally call our Underground Tour. Sadly we don’t sell tickets for this but I’m beginning to...

I’ve always been a fan of Wired…well apart from the period when they went all biotech on us. Thus I was quite pleased when Dylan Tweney of Wired.com (now at VentureBeat) came to our Redmond campus for a look around. We took him in to some of our favorite nooks and crannies and introduced...

Over the last few weeks, you may have seen a few shots of what looked like a new office on Microsoft’s campus – it turns out it’s an old office (one of the oldest) but it’s had a serious makeover. Jay Greene of CNet took a look around a few weeks ago and published a short slideshow...

Back in May I wrote a post that a colleague told me would be boring – it was about “my workplace”. I think he thought I was going to write about my desk – which I’m rarely at – and yep, that would have been boring. I count the entire campus as my workspace though which...

Video Game - E3 2012 - AOTS Exclusive I’ve spent most of the week on camera at our Worldwide Partner Conference – the poor souls in the arena had to deal with a 15ft version of me looming above their heads. On a much smaller scale, a spot aired on G4’s Attack of the Show last night...

This is possibly my favorite hidden space on Microsoft Campus – I found it within a few weeks of starting my new gig and everyone I have taken there has been blown away. Not only by the space but the team who works there...and the work they do. What I love about the model shop is it’s...

I get to visit lots of interesting, unusual and hidden places inside of Microsoft so the idea of a blog post about my own workspace sounded incredibly boring when I thought about the lineup for this week’s schedule of posts about places. Then I decided it’d be another perspective about where...

For many years I had heard of the Microsoft Home and wondered what it’d be like inside – having only seen scant glimpses in press shots. I’d also been quite curious about what it’s like from outside – assuming it would be on a suburban street somewhere in Redmond and perhaps...

One of the things I mentioned when we launched this blog was my desire to show you more of Microsoft – to help you get inside the places and spaces I visit on a daily basis. Welcome to our first “places week” on Next. Ever since I started working at Microsoft (over 13 years ago)...

I hate to admit it, but I still have my best ideas in the shower. I’m constantly misplacing my keys, and this morning during my second rinse & repeat, I came up with a brilliant solution involving Windows Phone, Microsoft Lync and RFID tags. Now, all I need to do is get it built. That’s...

One of the topics we’ll be covering here on Next is a look behind the scenes at Microsoft. I’m keen to show you some places you may have heard about but never really seen – the Microsoft Home for example. There are a host of other places too, some of which even Softies don’t know...