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On the way to lunch today, I was approached by someone with a small black device just a bit too large to fit in your shirt pocket. It turns out that it is an OQO , a device she billed as "the smallest Vista PC in the world". This thing was pretty amazing,
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I consider myself a pretty typical PM, and like most PMs at Microsoft, I like to unwind by playing bass drum in a bagpipe band. You can see me doing just that with my band, the Keith Highlanders Pipe Band , in this photo .
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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 IM, you can make it count more by using Windows Live Messenger. Basically, Microsoft will share a portion of the advertising revenue with one of several major charities. Participating is a breeze, just change your display name in the Live Messenger
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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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I am in training to run a marathon. I will (hopefully) be running the Spirit of St. Louis Marathon on April 15th of this year. I'm 9 weeks into my training program, and am blogging my program at http://2020program.blogspot.com .
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I just sat in on a presentation about the launch plans for Windows Vista. All I can say is "Wow!" You should definitely plan to pick up your personal copy of Vista (I recommend Home Premium for most home users and Ultimate for the uber-geeks) on January
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I've been running more and more recent versions of Windows Vista, and each one just gets better and better. At this point they are putting in a lot of the fit and finish things that really make the system nice to use. I suggest that you keep an eye on
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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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I am no developer, but I've been playing around with VS2005 and it rocks! I am not much of a programmer, but I've been able to create some pretty cool web pages using VS2005, with very little coding. I strongly encourage you to check out the new Visual
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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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Some guy is blogging about his planned trip to the World Cup next year...
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