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Will it Blend? That is the question!

Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:47 AM by adamu
We're having fun watching the BlendTec commercials since we've announced that the product code named Sparkle is now Blend. Since my last post 6 months ago in July where I visited a company in Raleigh NC, I've been amazingly busy. I've visited Roxio in Read More...
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on the Frontline

Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:26 PM by adamu
Two weeks ago, I spent an entire week at a customer site. This customer is in Raleigh, NC, and I got to see their early progress on a WPF prototype. They see the User Experience opportunities with WPF as a key differentiator in their market. This opportunity Read More...
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June CTPs now available

Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:20 PM by adamu
We've made available new CTPs of Expression Interactive Designer and Graphic Designer that work with the June CTP of the .Net Fx 3.0. Links are below. Interactive Designer Graphic Designer Read More...
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That's right, you're not from Texas, but Texas wants you anyway

Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 8:15 PM by adamu
With apologies to Lyle Lovett .... I'm spending this week in Texas; specifically, at Microsoft's Las Colinas Customer Support Center in Irving, Tx. Now why in the world would I do that, voluntarily? Well, I'll tell you... Each year as I review my performance, Read More...
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March CTP of Interactive Designer now available

Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 8:34 PM by adamu
enjoy! http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2006/03/09/543851.aspx Read More...
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recruiting at Syracuse U

Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 5:37 PM by adamu
I went to Syracuse a little over a week ago to recruit for Microsoft. Since I started on the Sparkle project nearly 4 years ago, I've had the opportunity to go to Shanghai, Romania, Bulgaria, U-Penn twice, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Va Tech, UCLA, USC, Arizona, Read More...
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What's the difference between SDE and SDET at microsoft?

Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 12:39 PM by adamu
I was exchanging email with a candidate last night who was confused about the differences between what dev and test do at microsoft, and as I tried to compose my thoughts about what it is that SDETs do, I thought that it would be good to share this on Read More...
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Expression Interactive Designer - Now available!

Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:13 AM by adamu
It's been a work in progress for what seems like a lifetime... But as of right now we FINALLY have a build of Expression Interactive Designer (EID) available for public download. We've also updated Expression Graphic Designer with a new XAML exporter. Read More...
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Windows Live Local - Virtual Earth

Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 7:12 PM by adamu
I was playing around with Virtual Earth on Windows Live Local, and they've recently added a bird's eye view to the mapping software. Here's a bird's eye view of my building on the Microsoft campus. http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.639567~-122.133399&style=o&lvl=2&scene=372999 Read More...
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Christmas Presents and teams long since past

Posted Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:20 AM by adamu
I went to a White Elephant gift exchange with about 20 other people about 2 weeks ago. What was unusual was that this was with people who were on my very first team here at Microsoft, over 9 years ago. We hadn't had a daVinci team function in a long time, Read More...
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Greetings from Shanghai

Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:12 AM by adamu
I was in Shanghai last week to interview candidates for Microsoft, and got a day to do a little sightseeing. Shanghai is a pretty neat city! Read More...
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What is Acrylic For?

Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:36 PM by adamu
Andrew Watt, an infopath MVP asked, "What exactly is Acrylic for?" Acrylic is intended for pro designers (people who use today's pro design tools) to create rich visual content, primarily for use in user interfaces, either desktop apps or web apps, although Read More...
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Sparkle Video Link

Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:34 PM by adamu
In case you missed the Sparkle Video on Channel 9, here's the link: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=115387 And the NorthFace Concept Video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=116327 Read More...
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You've Got Questions, I've got Answers... Part 2

Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:47 AM by adamu
OK, here's your chance. Blast away. I did this last year, and got lots of questions from people about how hiring and recruiting works at Microsoft, as well as some test questions. So, what would you like to know? Something about Sparkle? Or Acrylic? Something Read More...
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Sparkle and AdamU

Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:12 PM by adamu
Well, given that we (finally!) announced today (at PDC) the project I've been working on for the last 3 years, I can now put in my blog that I've been working on "Sparkle Interactive Designer". You can check it out here . And yes, if you get a chance Read More...
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