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Today as part of a program I am participating in I was able to hear from Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher with Microsoft Research. The historical knowledge of touch interfaces he possessed was fascinating. I appreciate how he mentioned that with poor
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Like many I receive a good amount of email, as well due to Xobni, I found I also send a lot of email which made me realize I am probably the cause of most of my email volume. Anyway I really try hard to manage my inbox so that I never have more mail than
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I am in Washington for 1 of the 2 yearly events bring our consulting, sales and support members from around the globe. Groups send people to 1 every 12 or 18 months. I tend to have a speaking opportunity but this year chose to be a proctor during some
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I follow a few blogs where it is a mix of professional and personal and I am always intrigued when people share book and music suggestions. I read Three Cups of Tea on a trip to Seattle earlier this year and have since bought the children’s version to
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So I finally purchased a new laptop to replace our existing Toshiba Satellite Pro. The system is showing its age in its performance given the processor and memory, the experience we get the most and hate is when the system (many times just IE) hangs.
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Today Karsten has been added to my list of heroes with an answer to an annoying problem – Live Messenger behavior on Windows 7 now operates differently when you minimize and close (and I don’t like it)! http://blogs.technet.com/kpalmvig/archive/2009/03/24/windows-7-minimize-live-messenger-to-systray.aspx
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I just returned from a week of vacation, I went skiing 3 days with a buddy at Snowshoe Mountain and then took the rest of the week home with the family. For any of you in this business you likely have a lot of email and I was surprised with only ~350
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I am attending TechReady8 this week which brings members of the field (consultants, sales, premier field engineering, support) across the globe to Seattle. I have been to 5 or 6 of them as I usually have at least 1 speaking engagement. This morning as
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While I work for Microsoft, I am not blind to the fact that other software solutions exist and may be better or easier. There was a time when I did not use our sites for search. Live.com has improved greatly and today I experienced what I think a search
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Check out the latest marketing video for VoIP as you are video. It is 15 minutes long and includes the Sklar brothers of Cheap Seats fame (or at least where I first learned of them)' http://preview.microsoft.com/video/videoDetails.aspx?video=17648162-1372-4eef-af74-a7362978bc09
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We just had our 3rd child (Sophia, Zachary, Seth), you can't really see him but it is the only picture I have on this computer with all 3 kids.
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update May 17. It looks like there were some problems with this effort (not sure of the details). You can try it every once in a while, it should not come up to the microsoft.com/uc page. http://www.voipwithoutbarriers.com/ Allow the popup - its fun.
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I saw the internal email with our new logo and thought, hey that would be a cool banner for the page. I asked for permission to use and received it. I am thankful to the team that runs this site: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg/archive/2006/10/09/PersonalPaperClip.aspx
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I don't know if you are aware of the upcoming changes to Daylight Savings for the United States but changes are coming. I happen to carpool with 2 guys in Exchange and 1 is part of a corporate wide team working on DST, so I have begun hearing more and
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