Apparently not. The Saturday after PDC some of my colleagues on the Academic team met with a group students to discuss “digital lifestyle”. Chris Avis was there and took some good notes. A couple of things strike me about this; 1) Windows is not cool. These kids clearly don’t...

The fact that a Spammer has to pay Microsoft $7 million is big news IMO. In the scheme of things, $7 million isn't a lot of money to Microsoft--this is clearly about the principle. It's great that $5 million of this will go directly to Microsoft's efforts to chase down more Spammers--here's to the day...

You may remember my previous post on "convergence." Coming to the tail end of the pain now--the black holes are parting. Traffic should pick up soon.

Most people hear a word like convergence coming from a marketing guy and think "oh boy, hear comes the fluff..." But I'm gonna use it in a different context at the moment. In the case I mean when two giant black holes converge to suck up every bit of available time. See, Microsoft's fiscal year ends...

I have to agree with Alex on this one-- this is easily one of the saddest things that I've ever heard . I can't imagine being so obsessed by blogging, forums and online community to the point of starving to death. Full article here . Be careful out there...

Big thanks to my teammate, Kevin Briody for the airtime on his personal blog. At the end of the post, Kevin asks why more Microsoft marketers don't blog. Here's my take on what's in the mind of the marketer on blogs; 1) Developers are harsh . "So what!?!" you may say. "Didn't you guys know that...

It's really disturbing to me to continue to see stats like those in this article. Where will the next generation of software professionals come from? What needs to be done to get these levels to where they were in 1999?

Saw this article on CNET from David Patterson(President on ACM) about the showing of the US entries in the ACM student coding competition. <rant> IMO, this problem starts with high school. I have visited a TON of US high schools since starting in this role and my experience is that...