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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
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Try this. Open up word, make sure automatic spellchecking is on, and type in the names of some star wars characters: I love it. They're in the dictionary... except, for some reason, for Leia. For the ones it does know, it even capitalizes
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I ordered it a few weeks ago, but they're behind on production, so it took until yesterday to ship (and supposedly is arriving today - hurrah for online up-to-the-minute package tracking!). At first, I was cynical and gave a lot of weight to the negative
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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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You know how there's a warning tag on hairdryers that says not to use it while showering? I've always figured that the reason for those stupid warnings is that someone somewhere did use it while showering, and then the relatives of the deceased then sued
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Well, I'll tell you one way to not do it, which is to measure against user expectations without any sort of normalization or attempt to figure out what those expectations are. Take for example this survey from a hotel I stayed at this past weekend: As
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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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Saveen pointed me at these blogs about product development at Adobe. Pretty interesting reads, sounds a lot like things around here: How Adobe products are built How features are added to Illustrator The note at the end of the second one (" In reality,
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It's a tradition with most major product releases that there's a ship gift for the product team and a select group of key partners involved in designing, developing, testing and shipping the product. Jon Avner recently blogged about past ship gifts for
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A while ago, I mentioned that I am now the User Experience manager for Exchange, over the design & usability teams. One of the things my team does is run focus groups and usability studies, and we ran a focus group with eight IT pros/exchange admins
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We RTM'd last Friday. Awww yeah! As some of us were discussing on friday, "RTM day" is really a unique milestone in the life of many microsoft employees. I've been here 9 years and shipped 5 products that were all on 2-3 year cycles, so such a day just
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As I hinted a few weeks ago , I'm changing jobs again. My last role change was over a year ago , that's almost a record for me. My new job is being the UX Manager for the next release of Exchange. I will be leading a team of designers and researchers
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Today is the third anniversary of my first blog post . A whole lot has happened (and been blogged) in those years, including events such as: I changed jobs I started the Exchange blog (2 million hits a month later...) I helped release the custom quota
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On the windows mobile team's blog . I hope that whoever is quoted in this eweek article saying that public folder access to OWA "must be like just 20 lines of code" reads it.
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