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“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.” —Bertrand Russell

I love the fact that Win7 has ISO burning built-in. I’m running a pre-release build of Win7, and...

Date: 07/24/2009

I’m not entirely sure what these folks are thinking, but I’m getting a little worried about our...

Date: 07/09/2009

The guy who writes the minimsft blog has a nicely honed sense of irony. And you know, speaking of...

Date: 04/23/2009

Several years ago, at the beginning of the “Longhorn” project (which eventually became Windows...

Date: 01/16/2009

Not too long ago, I joined the PowerPoint team. Thought I spend most of my time working on a related...

Date: 12/12/2008

Something’s going on the interwebs. I think it might be hell freezing over. That’s really cool! I...

Date: 10/28/2008

In a detailed post over on E7 about the Win7 design process comes this: With regard to where ideas...

Date: 10/23/2008

Move stop-and-refresh back to where they were in IE6 This was going to be my first post in this...

Date: 09/11/2008

  Authenticated RSS Feeds When we first released the Windows RSS platform a number of people...

Date: 09/10/2008

Clone your current place One of the nice things about the “New Window” (Ctrl-N) feature dating back...

Date: 09/09/2008

Use your address bar for searching A little-known fact is that IE has always had a combination...

Date: 09/08/2008

Searching the future This morning I wanted to find out where I read about that “Skymarket”...

Date: 09/05/2008

Formatted View Source You don’t have to be a pro developer to love this one. Since the very...

Date: 09/04/2008

IE8 has a lot of big new features (see the IE blog for more of that), but what I like about it is...

Date: 09/03/2008

I don’t think Yahoo likes us anymore. IE8 Beta 2 ships, and they start pushing Firefox on their home...

Date: 08/28/2008

I had to chuckle this afternoon when Steven Sinofsky exploded upon the Internet with one of his...

Date: 08/19/2008

A long time ago, someone decided that Outlook should be able to browse web pages inside its frame*....

Date: 08/09/2008

Those who know me know that I have something of a keyboard/mouse fascination. I’ve gotten almost...

Date: 08/08/2008

When you look at this picture, you are overwhelmed by Apple logos. There are other laptops there,...

Date: 08/07/2008

A long time ago when I worked on Windows XP, I worked on a project to add Bluetooth PAN support to...

Date: 08/06/2008

About a month ago (shortly after joining a new team), I upgraded laptops at work. For the first time...

Date: 08/06/2008

Yesterday morning I got a call from my old buddies on the IE team asking me to help out with a cake...

Date: 06/18/2008

I’ve been using Media Center for about 3 years as my primary TV viewing solution. One of...

Date: 04/03/2008

Update (3/13/2009): This sidebar gadget no longer works against IE8 (Release Candidate or higher)....

Date: 03/19/2008

Great news from the IE Blog: Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled...

Date: 11/09/2007

Many years ago, I worked on the Exchange team. We used to have these conferences called,...

Date: 10/24/2007

In this article about Bill Gates' transition, we find this gem: For much of Microsoft's existence,...

Date: 08/28/2007

Now, I've been reading Jonathan Schwartz's blog for a while now (he's CEO of Sun Microsystems), and...

Date: 08/23/2007

Regular readers* of this blog will know that I have a thing for definitions of program management...

Date: 08/17/2007

Some years ago Chris Pratley, an Office GPM, wrote an interesting article that talks about some of...

Date: 08/16/2007

Now this is how powerful software gets made.

Date: 08/14/2007

Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side -- because it's well-fertilized with bullsh*t. or,...

Date: 07/09/2007

Monday: Safari for Windows (beta) announced . Tuesday: Six vulnerabilities found. Thursday: Safari...

Date: 06/25/2007

I install and uninstall dozens of pieces of software weekly. I also (perhaps as a result of the...

Date: 06/19/2007

A long time ago (c. 2001), I had a stint on the SQL Server team (it lasted about 9 months). One of...

Date: 06/14/2007

The tall white dude in the middle of this picture is none other than Chrix Finne of IE RSS team...

Date: 06/07/2007

One of the newer things in Windows Vista is the Aero interface, which includes, along with the new...

Date: 06/01/2007

The Silverlight folks have created a chess-playing demo in Silverlight 2. The game is here:...

Date: 06/01/2007

"This slide...this being a keynote, the marketing people had to make a pass through the deck. And...

Date: 05/30/2007

Those of you who read this blog in an RSS reader may not have noticed, but this blog underwent some...

Date: 05/14/2007

I love the internet. A series of interesting comments were posted to the RSS Team blog. I am the...

Date: 04/27/2007

I'm going to deviate off my usual path to do a little nyah-nyah at a competitor. Seems that Apple...

Date: 03/15/2007

Blah, blah, blah, Daylight Saving Time is changing... Yawn. This, however, is very cool mini-feature...

Date: 03/06/2007

Just watch it. (via John Battelle's Searchblog via Techmeme.)

Date: 02/19/2007

I like this one, too.

Date: 02/16/2007

The naming of products at Microsoft is something that never ceases to fascinate the world. The...

Date: 02/09/2007

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