Soma , who reports to Eric Rudder and now runs the Developer Division, started his blog last night. He was even brave enough to turn on comments that go straight to his inbox! I've been in a couple of meetings with Soma now in addition to his first “All...

Chad asked for your picture and some details about how you use the product we build every day. Last week he took what he has received so far, printed the results, and tacked them to one of the walls on the 5th floor. Today he figured out how to use an...

So I didn't make the trip to Tech-Ed this year, but I do get to read everything about it. Via Eking I found this entry from a Java developer ( N. Alex Rupp ) attending Tech-Ed. I've included some choice quotes. TechEd 2004, Day 01 I must admit...

I used to feel this way. If someone had asked me a few months ago if I thought their team should start a blog that represents their collective team; I probably would has told them that it wouldn't go over that well. Now, however, I'm of the opinion that...

Ok, so I had hoped to have actually had a release by now . I really am getting closer. Check out the latest pic... So I probably could have released something by now if I'd chosen to leverage a 3rd party auto-complete control rather than write my...

If you haven't subscribed yet you should be reading Mark Cuban's blog. His series on "Success and Motivation" has been great stuff. Part 4, posted today, was pretty timely for me since I had a conversation over lunch with a former report about the value...

This was forwarded to me today from YAG . It shows how important it can be to listen to customer issues (no matter where they come from) and provide swift resolutions. Calvin Hsia, a dev lead on VFP, posted a blog entry about bad customer support...

Support the comment API. Support it so I can read and reply to comments about your post. Support it from your blog and support it from your blog reading software. Scoble is hardheaded about full-text support in RSS . I happen to agree with his perspective...

The community wins just keep coming across my desk today. Perhaps that’s because I sent out a request for them… Came across a very nice post to reference during your community report as a good customer experience: Subject: Archive...

Chris Asks : I just now discovered the Power Toys link and I am very excited about learning more. I am interested in NUnit and I plan to check out the NUnit Add In. What are some Power Toys that you like in particular? Or what would be good ones to...

This was forwarded to me today. I'll add my thanks to everyone at Microsoft that is currently making the time to get to know their customers a little better and share their insights and expertise outside of our corporate boundaries. I'll also add that...

So every other blog you read today probably has information in it about the Visual Studio 2005 Team System software that was announced today @ Tech-Ed. I think Chris Sells has the best round-up of must read links about Team System so far so I won't try...

It will be cool to see how well this actually works. It might actually be a reasonable use for those otherwise meaningless cameras you can't seem to find a phone without these days. Online grocery store PeaPod.com is working on a clever way for...

While encouraging teams @ MS to participate in online communities I'm often asked “What do I get out of it?” or “What will my teams ROI be?”. Honestly guys... those are the wrong questions, but here is some non-numeric proof that...

Today is the day I deleted an alias created for the Powertoys blog because I made the mistake of publicly asking people to send mail to it. For some reason, our internal spam filtering didn’t seem to be working as well for this alias as it does...

I spotted an interesting commentary on the lifecycle of a blog discussion over Simon Phipp's blog. I think its one good way to look at it. I do think there are some things that could be done to make conversing about a blog topic easier on the actual blog...

Generally, one of the first questions I get when I tell people I work on Visual Studio is "Why does it keep changing my HTML?" Well, that's the less colorful version of the question. Mikhail Arkhipov posted the best public explination of this "feature...

I think this whole thing was pretty cool... A few days ago, I invited you to let me know who you are. On behalf of the folks on the VS team , I want to thank all of you who responded to me, sent me a note, a picture, a bio, a resume, or even just an...

Awesome... now I can get the latest baseball news mixed in with my blog reading. Via Scoble Via Dave Winer Via David Thomson : ESPN.com news ESPN.com NFL News ESPN.com NBA News ESPN.com NHL News ESPN.com MLB News Good Times!

On 5/7 I posted the first tally of results for how people would prefer their Beta 1 threaded discussions . There have been some additional comments and votes made since then so it seemed only fair to add those in. Ironically, this thread in the newsgroups...

I've personally heard a bunch of conflicting statements regarding how popular Multi-Monitor development is. I couldn't live without it. Tell us how you feel on Sara's blog . I want to get a sense of how many people use Visual Studio with a mulit...

I know there has been some disappointment that Whidbey is not yet working on the latest longhorn builds. Today I found this. I'll second the "try at your own risk" sentiment since I can tell you that there has been no internal testing of this scenario...

Seems that this never got posted after it was written. Anyway I wrote it again... Send Chad your picture . We do a lot of promotion of .Net built apps in our hallways, but less about the customers who build these apps. This is your chance to have your...

I spent Thursday night with the VSCmdShell code. Having just released v0.6 that now defaults to the VS environment paths I was determined to clean some stuff up before the next release. I refactored the code a bunch to make it more readable, I made issuing...

You won't even see this stuff in the next tech preview drop! Marie , who works on my team, has been doing some PM work around easily pulling community content into Visual Studio. I think of this as enabling VS to be a more living product. Anyway, I asked...