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There's been a lot of buzz around Microsoft regarding the Microsoft Surface announcement today. I had seen this a while back at TechFest, the internal event put on by Microsoft Research every year. At the time I thought it was really cool. But I've got
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There's nothing like handing off to the Release Manager and being "done" with your project. After many months and lots of twists and turns, I've handed the final pieces of the Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs off to Karina (our RM) who is taking
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I will be going to Tech Ed again this year. I'll be working at our "Security & Compliance" booth, and presenting a chalk talk on the first day of the show. I'm also conducting a side meeting to discuss problems related to secure collaboration that
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If you are familiar with SourceForge, you might want to check out CodePlex. According to their website, CodePlex ( www.codeplex.com ) is "Microsoft's open source project hosting web site." It has a lot of the features that SourceForge provides (issue
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One of the cool things about working at Microsoft (a lot of my posts begin this way, don't they?) is that they encourage you to file patents on cool ideas that you've had. I've had lots of (I think) great ideas throughout my life (haven't we all), but
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Last year we got a really nice new hi-def TV . Unfortunately, we have an old non-progressive scan, non-up-converting DVD player. So, we need a new DVD player anyway, so how about getting an Xbox 360 to fill in as DVD player? In addition, the DVD player
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This happened a few days ago. The announcement is on the homepage of Groove's website ( http://www.groove.net/home/index.cfm ). One of the big pieces of this acquisition is that Ray Ozzie comes with it. Ray was the creator of Lotus Notes. I don't know
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After not travelling once in 1.5 years at my previous job, I am on the road at customer meetings for two days in New York. I like being in New York, but I don't like travelling there because of the 3 hour time difference. Also, I flew into Newark, and
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With everyone back from vacation, my project has kicked into high gear. I've not been as good as I should be on posting, but things are a little crazy. I will fill you in on a training session that I am going to tomorrow. It is called "Cross-group Collaboration"
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This is my last post this year, and as such it is a good time to reflect on the last roughly two months at Microsoft. Here's what I've learned so far: Relationships are extremely important, and you should never burn any bridges. People move around here
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Well, that's two milestones out of the way: I've already been linked to by Robert Scoble ( http://scoble.weblogs.com ), and now I've gotten linked to by the Moon Gals, Gretchen and Zoe( http://blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog )! I'm on a roll, baby!
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Today I was at the Pro Club in Bellevue, a gym to which almost everyone at Microsoft belongs. I arrived at around 7:15am and as I walked into the locker room I saw Steve Ballmer (or someone that looks remarkably like him!) pulling on his pants! In case
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Today is the end of my second week at Microsoft. I thought I'd take a moment to recap some of my impressions. Interesting things I've done so far: Experienced Microsoft NEO (New Employee Orientation), which they say is like "drinking from a firehose".
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I was wondering if anyone was reading my posts, because I hadn't received any comments in well over a week. I was actually thinking of writing a post entitled "Blogging To Myself", since no one seemed to be reading or responding to what I was posting...
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It is so nice being able to listen to music (or whatever) without headphones! At my previous employer we were I lived in a cubicle and could only listen to music with headphones. It was like a leash that chained you to your PC. What a pain in the neck
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