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Dare's post about human nature touches on UAC in Vista: How do you design a dialog prompt to warn users about the potential risk of an action they are about to take if they are so intent on clicking OK and getting the job done that they forget that there
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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,
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I can't wait until these babies arrive:
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I've been reading http://www.microspotting.com ever since my coworker Alex (aka carpenter-turned-test-manager) was profiled a while back . Great writing, beautiful photography, fun quirky looks at a bunch of Microsoft employees. Alex's profile is a great
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With the new 'green' effort with our kitchen supplies, they posted signs in every kitchen:
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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
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That is all.
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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
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It is a testament to the intransigence of the human spirit that for the last 6 years of my life I have right clicked on that little icon on my taskbar and chosen to remove the "Language Bar" from the taskbar, only to have it pop back up at some later
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A coworker asked me today if I knew how to count up the total number of folders in his mailbox, in the process of troubleshooting a bug related to having a large number of folders. I had an old script that recursed through a mailbox to count the total
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/07/ExchangeQA/default.aspx My contributions are the edge/hub and VPC questions. Some day I really need to sit down and create some kind of image to represent the queue & A...
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Agh. I have been meaning to buy a bunch of the tracks from Guitar Hero and add them to my zune. So I finally get around to it tonight. I click on the 'sign in' button in zune. Progress bar... Now it brings me to a page with zune support on it, and a list
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It's a fairly common pasttime (at least in my building!) to poke fun at the "Art" collection (more details on that collection here ). In particular in our building, a bunch of us think that some of the "Art" is just silly, such as: A painting taller than
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A coworker recently forwarded around this article from the New Yorker that talks about feature creep and consumer behavior: You might think, then, that companies could avoid feature creep by just paying attention to what customers really want. But that’s
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So last year, LisaB rolled out the "myMicrosoft" initiative, and over the last year the various improvements have been rolled out (I don't even like coffee but man those machines make goo oooo od hot chocolate), including upgrades to many of our conference
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