Last week I had a cool Friday afternoon experience: I was cold called by a recruiter. In six years of working at Microsoft, this is the first time that’s happened to me! I’d heard rumours of this happening when I first started at Microsoft...

We call our team “People & Groups”. Today, someone from another team sent me a log file for a People & Groups scenario called “png.xml“. I stared at the name for about 3 minutes trying to figure out why they'd sent me a...

The other day we found out that Steve (one of our developers) has the same phone number as Arnold Schwarzenegger! Steve had a bizarre voice mail from someone looking for Arnie. We're not sure why Steve's greeting led them to believe that they should actually...

It's currently 8:30pm. My flight was supposed to take off at 6:05pm. It's now scheduled to take off at 9:30pm. I'm sitting in the Air Canada lounge in Toronto on my way to Seattle and I'm bored. They've got a free wireless network in here so I'm hooked...

Since the PDC I've been monitoring newsgroups. So, I diligently followed our internal guidelines for setting up and posting to newsgroups. That includes stuff like a legal disclaimer that I don't really know what I'm doing and that even if I did Microsoft...

Events with the same name from different interfaces....

Use Contact.Locations instead of Person.PersonalAddresses....

I'm sitting in an airport, but I'm not going where you'd expect.  Although I work in Redmond, I actually live 2000 miles away in Ottawa, Ontario. (Ottawa is the capital of Canada, if you haven't heard of it.)  Most of the time I work remotely...

'Till Monday...

Will anyone ever actually read this?...