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Exploring the fine line between clever and stupid. Heather Hamilton is a Staffing Manager and Microsoft Employee Evangelist.

Virtualization win

I like to win. Hmm, I think we may have already established that. Nice work Hyper-V team. (And all...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/27/2010

I'm not saying you are a lying cheapskate

I'm saying that your cheapness has turned you into a liar, fakey bag buyers. Geez, well isn't buying...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/24/2010

I hate to do this but...(I'm lying, I don't hate to do this)

Windows 7 is doing great! Win 7 market share up, XP down and everything else stable or down. Holla!...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/20/2010

Movies as PR

Now a Google movie? You have got to be kidding me. "The intention is to be sympathetic to Sergey and...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/20/2010

The House Advantage

We have several speaker series' here at Microsoft. In the past few weeks, I have seen Pete Carroll...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/17/2010

Microsoft Mobile Games Studio

There are three things I want you to know about this: 1) I think that annoucing something like the...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/17/2010

The "real" you...

In a world where the only way to identify the "real" you is by the bar code stamped on your...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/16/2010

Getting closer to password security

I like innovation around security. I think folks are pretty lax about security, especially as it...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/20/2010

Form follows function

Not the other way around. I'm not surprised to see that the iPhone 4 antenna issue was cause by a...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/16/2010

Look at your grades. Now look at mine.

Well, nobody should look at my grades. Because, yeah. All awesomeness is followed by parody. Who...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/16/2010

The part where my head explodes (not "literally")

While I don't technically feel "guilty" about it, I know that my blog posts lately have been maybe a...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/12/2010

50 Smartest People

OK, this is pretty cool. I'm not sure if this signifies an increase in the number of successful...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/12/2010

Corporate Social Media Policies: More is better or not so much?

Six years ago...six!...I started blogging and shortly after that started speaking at conferences...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/09/2010

Part 2 of Kara Swisher's Interview on the Microsoft!/Yahoo! Integration

Kara's full interview is here. Just when I was thinking about how dry the interview was, we got...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/06/2010

Understanding the Microsoft-Yahoo! Alliance

OK, first of all, please don't say "Microhoo!" Honestly, do we have to do that? Maybe I am just...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/02/2010

I think someone might have to come up with a new word for "retirement"

A Fortune article on Bill Gates' "retirement". For folks that are accustomed to really stretching...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/21/2010

Boring work meetings meet beautiful design

I'm a fan of good design. Unfortunately, my decision to now love mid-century modern design is...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/16/2010

I like what I am hearing about Bing!

I think being #2 is okey-dokey. Especially a year after launch. I pick a search engine based on what...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/14/2010

Project Natal now Kinect; still awesome.

This sounds good so far. A jillion Star Wars nerds are getting ready to get their light saber on. Or...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/14/2010

Microsoft donates $100K to gulf clean up. Stephen Colberts ears still crooked.

I'm just not sure how I could love Stephen Colbert any more. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/08/2010

People have clearly run out of things to protest

Our American culture is getting protest happy. I had just moved here when the WTO Summit protests...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/07/2010

If a bubble pops and there's nobody there to hear it, does it really make a sound?

It's a little encouraging to see recognition that talent (specifically tech talent) is pooling in...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/01/2010

The resume is an introduction, not an interview

Thought I'd pull together some resume tips, seeing that the economy is scratching it's way out of...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/01/2010

Failure: learn or forget?

Working for a company where self-critique is an art form, and being someone who always (always!)...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/04/2010

The demise of MySpace and Palm

I don't really think that Sean Parker is saying anything that we didn't already know. But the sound...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/29/2010

To Gizmodo

It's just a matter of time before "gizmodo" becomes a verb. gizmodo (verb)Etymology: modern English...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/28/2010

Trapeze stunts

Against my better judgement, I am featuring a video spotlighting my big butt, for the purpose of...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/28/2010

How sick is "sick enough"

Ah, the sick day. When you should be at home getting better but instead, you work; possibly...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/23/2010

But you'd be so much more attractive if you had a Windows 7 Phone

and it's not just because that "there's an app for that" thing makes people think they can keep...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/21/2010

I work at Microsoft

and being awesome was my idea.

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/20/2010

Teen Hacker

This interview with Marc Maiffret is interesting. Some people might be interested more in the...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/16/2010

A quiz that doesn't provide the answers at the end...

...is called market research. Good concept, FastCompany. But try harder next time.

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/14/2010

LinkedIn user, go back and try again using your smart-person voice

My buddy, Chris Hoyt (AKA RecruiterGuy) diverged from his usual writing topics (about recruiting,...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/09/2010

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