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Apologies in advance for messing up your RSS aggregator by changing the name of my blog
...but the time has come. 11 years at Microsoft, all of them in the Outlook & Exchange teams, and now that's coming to an end. Next Friday will be my last day in Exchange, after which point I will be moving to the Mobile team, to be the lead PM for Read More...
User behavior will *always* (eventually) trump technology
The Seattle PI recently posted about recent changes in the numbers of unique visitors for the major email services such as hotmail, yahoo, gmail, QQ, etc. According to that data, hotmail lost some users. From the first comment: I can't say I'm surprised. Read More...
Strange things that happen to your email when you work on email software
Raymond's recent blog on strange things that happen when you let people choose their own name (part 3) reminded me to check if my favorite old email address, kclemson5 AT exchange.microsoft.com was still working: yep, still there. As to the history of Read More...
Exchange team, innovating in content delivery yet again
It wasn't enough to be the first product team at microsoft to start a team blog , oh no no... We didn't stop there. We recently branched out into song . :-) [Update 8/11: Todd Bishop blogged about this on his Seattle PI Microsoft blog too. Way to go, Read More...
A new UX-themed tshirt we're making
I can't wait until these babies arrive: Read More...
7 Things you can't say on the internet
Great post from Josh. Although I admit I'm biased about #4 on his list... Read More...
You've come a long way, baby
Outlook 2000:   Outlook 2007:   Breath with me now: Ahhhhh...   I was an Outlook tester during the 2000 release; when the icon was first released internally, we were harshly critical of it in a very public way - it sucks to be the product Read More...
Application scalability
Dare has some good points on the debate around the scalability of twitter , relating it to some similar challenges Exchange has faced over the years. Another related issue is that in a single-instance model where you have a pointer to the content, this Read More...
What contributes to information overload?
Following on to my short rant yesterday , I wanted to share some information from a survey we did about a year ago. We surveyed ~1400 people[1] about their email management habits, how overloaded they felt, if they used conversation views, folders, filters/rules, Read More...
It's *information* overload, not email overload
I am so tired of reading blog posts that point the finger at email and imply that the problem is that we have too much email and that the solution are other technology streams, 1:many communication, etc. Guess what folks, email has 1:many too, call them Read More...
Video y taco[1]
I helped put together a video for Interact that gives a glimpse behind-the-scenes of the Exchange team. Please don't be scared off by the high production videos and think we're corporate shills - it's just because we got the marketing team to pay for Read More...
It's not true unless it's in a document
Raymond recently blogged about having to repeat himself multiple times in the same thread, answering the same question asked in different ways by the same person. It reminded me of one of my favorite old Exchange team stories: On an internal technical Read More...
Kudos to the UM team
Some nice words on this blog : Unified Messaging: We have also taken the plunge and are currently piloting Exchange Server 2007’s Unified Messaging feature, which was one of the major drivers behind our Exchange 2007 implementation.  To say Read More...
Joel Spolsky's latest article
Is a nice read , covering a lot of interesting topics, some of the more meaningful points as I see them: The most valuable course he ever took was the one he dropped after one lecture. It was valuable because it convinced him he shouldn't go to grad school Read More...
Debating...
I am thinking there's a lot of comedic potential here, for exchange geeks like me at least. :-) Read More...
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