Roger Needham taught me the phrase “success disaster”. A success disaster happens when a little project becomes so successful that it can’t grow quickly enough to keep up with the demand. And recently I’ve been having a success disaster with my offline...

The Visual Studio 2005 evangelists have created a new community marketing experiment: High Five Wikisheets . Microsoft marketing has taken some flak in the past (ahem), but this wiki seems to be pure Cluetrain Manifesto material. Risky, radical, and all...

We've done the " silly Microsoft product names " thing before, but in an internal discussion Larry Osterman upped the stakes with the following contender: " Microsoft Windows Server Base Operating Systems Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager...

In the days leading up to a major US military operation, there's supposed to always be a noticable spike in pizza orders from the Pentagon . This is a classic example of information leakage via a side channel — and one shared by Microsoft. Put another...