If you had a choice between optimizing the forum post form around cut and paste from Visual Studio and Word or around the "format code" buttons that exist today which would you choose and why? Option 1: Support cut and paste from the Visual Studio...

There are some teams at Microsoft that seem to naturally understand what it means to be ready for good customers, but there are others that should read this from Church of the Customer. Eight ways to prepare for good customers: 1. Have a customer...

This video , found via jobsblog , is just hysterical. I just want to know how long it took them to do all that. Enjoy!

Just an idea we have been thinking of funding for the blogs.msdn site to improve the discoverability of bloggers and posts that may be more relevent to you. I'm interested in knowing what you all think. Is this a problem worth solving? Is there a simpler...

I have a lot of respect for everything that Rob and the Team System crew has accomplished top to bottom in the "Community Space". In his most recent blog post Rob attempts to define what he considers the community space, the impact its had on our releases...

I'm curious, if you answer questions online (blogs, forums, newsgroups, chats, irc, etc) what your motivations are? If you don't answer questions online... what prevents you from doing so?

I recently posted my ideas for cutting off the duplicate questions in online web based forums . I'm enjoying all the feedback, but I was most impressed when Lee Holmes who took my PM art to the next level and created a functioning prototype to further...

Friday marked my 5th anniversary at Microsoft! In those 5 years I've had the opportunity to have three distinct careers. I spent 1.5 years as an individual Developer in Test, 2 years as a Dev in Test Lead, and the last 1.5 years as a Program Manager....