Yesterday our test team took a few hours off and went to a painting studio in Kirkland.  We learned how to paint a Seattle scene of the waterfront, Space Needle and new ferris wheel.  This morale event was quite a lot of fun and here’s the result...

Just a tip for today. I don't know why I haven't mentioned this before but this past week I have been using my Windows Phone to take tons of photos. I've been adding them straight to OneNote since they have been work related - mostly whiteboards full...

I guess everyone on the internet already noticed, but we just updated OneNote and you can download the new version from the Windows Store here: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/onenote/f022389f-f3a6-417e-ad23-704fbdf57117 I hope you enjoy it...

As our former intern and I continued our discussion about what constitutes a bug, our conversation meandered over to code reviews. Code reviews refers to the peer review of code that happens before we are allowed to check in. On a simple level, we check...

One of our interns from last year and I had a chat last week in which we started to debate the definition of a "bug." This had started here within the OneNote hallway with the simple question of "If no one files a bug in our tracking tool...

The former website I had used for years now to aggregate tweets about OneNote looks like it shut down recently. Goodbye, twendz, we really miss you! So I had a task this week to go and find a new aggregate twitter site. This was much harder than it seems...

One of the tasks that I always try to find time to complete (but never seem to actually get to complete) is memorizing keyboard shortcuts for both Windows and OneNote. When I have a laptop or desktop I always find is odd to type a bit, then have to move...

Many times when I am testing new OneNote code with SkyDrive and hit what I suspect may be a bug, I need to find out if what I am seeing could be explained if my computer running OneNote cannot communicate with the server. Monitoring network traffic via...

I was using OneNote on a multiple monitor machine the other day and noticed that by default, the application would always start on my primary monitor. Since I work back and forth between OneNote and Outlook all the time, I usually have one app on one...

I've been helping with our hiring efforts recently and realized that we have two test positions posted out of the Microsoft careers website for openings on the test team. https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=3&jid...