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Microsoft releases the Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide

Yesterday, my team shipped the Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide. This guide is available at...

Author: BillCan Date: 06/15/2006

TechEd presentation coming tomorrow

I am presenting at TechEd on regulatory compliance tomorrow at 8:30am. The presentation will...

Author: BillCan Date: 06/13/2006

TechEd 2006 Opportunity - Information Protection Focus Group

If you are at TechEd this week and would be willing to take an hour to discuss your problems around...

Author: BillCan Date: 06/13/2006

20/20 update

In case any of you are interested, I'm getting close to the end of my 20/20 program at the PRO Club....

Author: BillCan Date: 06/08/2006

Why do the Brits have all the best TV shows?!

Apparently, there's a new show on Channel 4 in the UK called "The IT Crowd". It's quite apropos for...

Author: BillCan Date: 01/27/2006

20/20 Update

I did my fitness assessment at the Pro Club yesterday. Read all about it at...

Author: BillCan Date: 01/26/2006

Project Update

If you've been reading this blog, you probably think my project has already shipped. Unfortunately,...

Author: BillCan Date: 01/26/2006

20/20 Program

One of the benefits that Microsoft makes available to employees is a partially paid weight loss...

Author: BillCan Date: 01/15/2006

My 1 Year Anniversary at Microsoft

I celebrated my 1 year anniversary at Microsoft two days ago. I brought in my requisite 1 pound bag...

Author: BillCan Date: 11/10/2005

Bill's Xbox 360 Strategy

Last year we got a really nice new hi-def TV. Unfortunately, we have an old non-progressive scan,...

Author: BillCan Date: 11/10/2005

Visual Studio 2005: Wow!!!

I am no developer, but I've been playing around with VS2005 and it rocks! I am not much of a...

Author: BillCan Date: 11/10/2005

Forza Motorsport

I dropped by the Company Store a few days ago and picked up a copy of Forza Motorsport and a HD...

Author: BillCan Date: 06/30/2005

Regulatory Compliance Team Blog Established

We have recently established a team blog for Regulatory Compliance at Microsoft. The URL is...

Author: BillCan Date: 06/30/2005

Security posts will be moving to a new blog

All, My team (Microsoft Solutions for Security) has established a team blog for security-related...

Author: BillCan Date: 06/06/2005

Why do I need to keep my system patched and run Anti-virus?!

This video clip is quite an eye-opener:...

Author: BillCan Date: 04/26/2005

Adding Regulatory Compliance as a focus for my blog

Over the past few months I have been focusing on regulatory compliance (RC), and how Microsoft can...

Author: BillCan Date: 04/06/2005

Old News: Microsoft Purchases Groove Networks

This happened a few days ago. The announcement is on the homepage of Groove's website...

Author: BillCan Date: 04/06/2005

New Guidance Released: Server and Domain Isolation Using IPsec and Group Policy

Microsoft Solutions for Security has released a new guide for using IPsec and group policies to...

Author: BillCan Date: 04/05/2005

A Wierd Microsoft Tradition

Apparently, the tradition at Microsoft is, on the day of your anniversary of starting at MS, to...

Author: BillCan Date: 04/05/2005

What are your biggest change management complaints?

I've heard over and over again from customers and coworkers that change management is a big pain in...

Author: BillCan Date: 04/04/2005

Billcan's Place migrated to https://blogs.technet.com/billcan...

Enjoy... Bill

Author: BillCan Date: 04/04/2005

Regulatory Compliance Question

For those IT security pros out there, a question: has the increase focus on regulatory compliance...

Author: BillCan Date: 02/22/2005

Argh! Kids' laptop riddled with spyware!

I downloaded the current beta version of MS' new Anti-SpyWare tool yesterday and installed it on my...

Author: BillCan Date: 02/22/2005

MSS Team Generates Infoworld Article!

Members of my team (Microsoft Solutions for Security) presented last week at the RSA Conference, and...

Author: BillCan Date: 02/21/2005

Old News: Microsoft Acquires Sybari

You've probably already read this, but Microsoft recently announced the acquisition of Sybari. This...

Author: BillCan Date: 02/21/2005

Announcements from the RSA Conference

Bill Gates made two big announcements at the RSA Conference in San Francisco yesterday. First, Bill...

Author: BillCan Date: 02/16/2005

My first VP meeting

I presented to my GM a while back, and he thought I should discuss my project with John Conners, the...

Author: BillCan Date: 02/03/2005

Envisioning Phase Complete, On to the Planning Phase!

Well, after lots of last minute changes, I have received approval from my stakeholders that I can...

Author: BillCan Date: 02/03/2005

First Major Deliverable and Microsoft Methodologies

I have just finished my first major deliverable, the so-called Vision/Scope document. This document...

Author: BillCan Date: 01/19/2005

In New York City

After not travelling once in 1.5 years at my previous job, I am on the road at customer meetings for...

Author: BillCan Date: 01/12/2005

The D-ILA has landed!

This weekend I picked up a new 52" JVC D-ILA television. It is an 3-chip LCoS microdevice reverse...

Author: BillCan Date: 01/11/2005

Regulatory Compliance Question

During my career, I have been on three sides of the SOX issue: At Ernst & Young I was worried...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/28/2004

When I first decided I wanted to land a job at Microsoft, I decided that I would blog my job search....

Author: BillCan Date: 12/21/2004

A suggestion for online social networkers

I was contacted by someone who is a vendor to Microsoft about connecting on LinkedIn. I'm sure this...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/20/2004

Another Microsoft blogging milestone

Well, that's two milestones out of the way: I've already been linked to by Robert Scoble...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/16/2004

Microsoft acquires Giant Company

Wow, I post about Giant AntiSpyware being a good product and Microsoft turns around and buys them...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/16/2004

Networking and headhunting

I haven't posted on networking in a while, so I thought I'd get something up here on that topic....

Author: BillCan Date: 12/14/2004

I just noticed today that on my Comcast DVR box, when you go to the My DVR menu, there is a little...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/14/2004

My project gets underway

Over the past two weeks, my group has been trying to make a decision as to what my project was going...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/14/2004

Holiday Parties

It is holiday party time at Microsoft. I went to a party at the house of my team leader on Saturday....

Author: BillCan Date: 12/14/2004

Giant AntiSpyware (Good) and XoftSpy (No comment)

Some of the conversation I heard around here is that Giant AntiSpyware is good stuff and is well...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/10/2004

What does a Program Manager do?

Yesterday and today I am in training called "Engineering Excellence for New Program Managers". It...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/09/2004

My first Microsoft CXO Sighting

Today I was at the Pro Club in Bellevue, a gym to which almost everyone at Microsoft belongs. I...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/07/2004

Another thing to love about working at Microsoft

Today I went to a lecture by Dan Gillmor, author of Dan Gillmor's eJournal. Dan is no fan of...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/07/2004

How worried are you about Spyware?

Everyone seems to be talking about Spyware these days. I’d like to know how big a problem Spyware is...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/03/2004

MSN Spaces (Blog Hosting) Beta

There is a huge amount of excitement in the internal MS blogging community as MSN has launched a...

Author: BillCan Date: 12/02/2004

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