I feel empathy for the person who is tackling Outlook development for the first time. Thanks to a number of things, including the advent of a solid Outlook managed developer tools story in VSTO 2005, that number is growing. Nevertheless, the overall corpus...

(I'm missing my friend, Chris Kunicki, and his sure-footed instincts about Office development. He's beening pursuing philanthropic interests full-time and will be for as long as I can tell, so he's no longer a direct part of the Office dev community....

Being a PM at Microsoft boils down to being a project manager. Some PMs are really technical while others are very design focused. But, the bottom line is that we are all tasked with delivering software features that will make customers happy and thus...