I have finally moved this blog over to my hosted site at http://blogs.msdn.com/seealso

I have been thinking about this a lot lately as I have been thinking of ways that I can improve my blog. I also have been tasked with participating on a panel of bloggers across Microsoft who will be addressing a number of moderated questions in about...

I have recently decided to start trying Twitter again. The problem that I had with it was I failed to really see how it would be of much use to me as I already have chat , social blogging , and social networks tracking my every move. I am going to try...

I just realized that with the 3.1 update to the Zune service, the Zune service (Zunepass) will allow users to keep 10 songs a month, forever, in addition to having a la carte access to everything on Zune. This hopefully will get all those people on the...

Looks like another parody was created at WIPTE

Things are getting pretty exciting around here. I have just finished my third year at Microsoft and have a brand new officemate, Cash Vo! I have been working with the multitouch SDK for Windows 7 and I'm pleased with how simple development is for it and...

I just saw this interesting video online which has been very helpful in getting me to completely understand how multitouch will be developed. I recommend it for anyone interested in how multitouch apps will be created when Windows 7 releases.

Check this out ! Lots of awesome gems there including the Day #2 keynote that shows off Windows 7 [skip about 19 minutes into the presentation].

I'm really excited for Windows 7, and it's been really hard to stay hush hush on it. What's really exciting is that we're finally showing the public what is coming! I could give you my impressions so far but instead you should check out Gizmodo's first...

Until I started working at Microsoft, or maybe even until I started working on Windows, I wasn't much of a "COM in C++" guy. The functionality that I needed was typically abstracted in to a managed language such as C# and so I could get by by without...

Woo! Check it out here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc967278.aspx

I want to preface this that this post is my personal perspective and that of what I have seen from my peers and is not anything official from Microsoft. Anyways... I just encountered an article on Slashdot chastising Microsoft's documentation indirectly...

The Real-Time Stylus (RTS) is a Tablet PC SDK feature that simplifies customized rendering of Stylus output, enables access to powerful hardware-level information for strokes and points, and grants access to ink-related events. The RTS works by using...

This gizmodo article shows a shiny new Tablet from Intel that is rather unique in that it looks really thin, small, and has a sliding keyboard like many cell phones. Intel is also using an N-Trig capacitive touch screen much akin to the screen that is...

As a digression from my regular ... absence? I figured I would post the first 10 useful Web sites for various things that I do on the web that I used to do using applications, email, or a hodge-podge of utilities. Note that these are just in order of...

I just found out about the Office Labs [ http://www.officelabs.com/Pages/Default.aspx ] where Microsoft posts a few internal tools to show off our internal thinking. If you have a tablet, you should check out InkSeine, an interesting application that...

So, I just found out that the laptop that failed on me during my finals (while I was working on my MBA last year) was one that potentially had a defective graphics card, that HP knew about it, and they then potentially lied to me about why it was broken...

I think the Mojave Expeiment's pretty funny. There's some people whose perceptions of Vista are bad... who turn out to favor it over XP. Mojaveexperiment.com

According to this Gizmodo article, you can now download multitouch firmware for the Dell Latitude. I wonder how useful this is in the existing Vista applications... One comment mentions that there is Web-page panning which sounds pretty awesome to...

I am a huge BillG fan and there's a lot of hoopla going on around Microsoft as he moves on to greener pastures in Charity work. This slideshow is by far the coolest thing that I have seen in the wake of all the stories and activities. Check it out! ...

OK, I recently had a really hard time getting and setting the properties of an ActiveX control in C++. I'm just writing a quick post on how this works because I had a heck of a time finding the right resources for this. What I had done was dragged and...

My cousin is a grad-school researcher who recently switched to Office 2007 from Office 2003. In 2003, there used to be pattern fills for charts, but, unfortunately, this feature was removed in 2007. Needless to say, the removal of this features was rather...

I made it to the booth by 9:00 where Eliot was waiting. Once I showed up, it was time for another prize giveaway. I walked around and found a winner. It looked like we were doing our job of getting attendees into the usability study and the Ask the Expert...

Ok, today is Thursday, which is the day of the night of the big Universal Studios party so, needless to say, I am stoked. I got up earlier than planned, had some breakfast, and went for a swim. The weather in Florida is ridiculously hot, it’s like hell...

This is the day that I’m supposed to give my speech. I have brought my laptop to the conference and have my slides primed. I’m still a little nervous about presenting, but having gotten a feel for the conference and having talked to the many kind attendees...