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Well, I've been in the Xbox Live team for the past 3 days and my head is swimming! I had never thought about all the work that goes into keeping Xbox Live up and operational, but now that I'm here and get to see it, it's pretty remarkable. There is a
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Starting this Tuesday, I will begin a new job at Microsoft: I am joining the Xbox Live Operations team as a Program Manager. I have really enjoyed my nearly 3.5 years on the Solution Accelerators Team, but am looking forward to a new challenge. My job
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The first thing I had to do at Tech Ed this year was a chalk talk on the Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs that I just finished. The session was pretty heavily attended, with all chairs filled and lots of folks sitting on the sides and standing in
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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 leave for Tech Ed in 15 days. I'll be staying at the either the Swan or Dolphin Hotel . I'm not quite sure how it works as they are two different hotel buildings but you somehow find out which you're staying in when you get there. At least that's what
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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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I presented yesterday and again today at TechReady 4. TechReady is Microsoft's internal conference where our field personnel come in to learn about new products, get training, schmooze with each other and HQ personnel, etc. Think of it as Tech Ed for
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One of the coolest things (at least for a technogeek) of working at Microsoft is getting to check out new stuff before it's released. You get to see the process of new products being built, you get to see the iterations they go through, and sometimes
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I celebrated my 1 year anniversary at Microsoft two days ago. I brought in my requisite 1 pound bag of M&Ms (peanut, of course). I also got my first stock vesting, but was shocked to see that they took 25% of that stock to cover taxes. Oh well, 75%
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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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Apparently, the tradition at Microsoft is, on the day of your anniversary of starting at MS, to bring in to work 1 pound of M&Ms for each year of service you have. A colleague of mine is celebrating his 12th anniversary at Microsoft today, and has
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