So the big news from MacBU this week was the release of Messenger for Mac 6 . This was an important release for us because it was our first actual application that was shipped as a universal binary. For those keeping track, we previously shipped shipped...

Geez, now I have to follow up David's awesomely funny entry about the food alias with my dry post on testing. One of the first classes I took after starting here was called “Testing at Microsoft for New SDETs.” This class was full of about 25 people...

Hello! My name is David Weiss and I'm the Automation Test Lead in MacBU, which means that I build stuff to help us test our code better. It's a great job. I could give you a detailed introduction , but I've kinda already done that. I could talk about...

By now, some of you have heard the news. Today we launched Messenger for Mac 6.0, our first Universal application! It includes some exciting things, like federation with Yahoo, the ability to show “what I’m listening to” on my iTunes and a spell checker...

It's Schwieb again, this time with a look back deep into MacBU history. No, not any public history -- I'll talking about my own history in MacBU. Brad Post's blog entries about tracking down gnarly bugs made me remember a particular problem I worked on...

OK, I'll have to just admit that Friday is usually a bad day for me to blog. I end up taking care of the kids until 11:30 at night and so I've been missing that midnight deadline that I set for myself in doing my links post. I'm not going to change...

Late last week, Sheridan and I had the opportunity to meet with some reporters from Australia, Japan and Canada. They were in town for a big press briefing that our Hardware team hosted to show off all of the cool new devices that are coming out this...

We have a section on our Mactopia website called “ Office Originals ” all about the cool, fun, inspiring, amazing things people do with Office for Mac, and meeting Originals is one of the best parts of my job. I can wax pretty poetic about Office myself...

The big link that I saw come into the mac mojo blog this week came from Xbox Live's Major Nelson . The Major is a friend of mine and one of the things I noticed when I visited his office for the first time was a sweet Power Mac G5 rig. If you've never...

It's been quite a week for us at MacBU, especially for such a short one. There's a lot of buzz about the blogs here at work and I think the engineers are really feeling the energy that comes from talking directly to users of the products that we build...

Have you read Robert Scoble and Shel Israel ’s book “ naked conversations ”?  In the first chapter,  they talk about the two sides of communication  in companies today:  the bloggers and the folks whose job it is to reduce risk and control the corporate...

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(Sorry, Charles.) Hiya folks! I'm Erik Schwiebert , one of the development leads here in the MacBU. I wanted to jump in here quickly to set some expectations based on some of the comments I've seen here about our team blog. A number of people...

Hi, my name is Brian Johnson and I'm a product manager at MacBU. Welcome to our Mac Mojo weblog! It's been quite a week for us at MacBU. Starting a venture like this blog doesn't come without a bit of wondering whether you're doing the right thing. I...

Venkman I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?" Egon Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Ray Total protonic reversal. Venkman...

It's been a pretty cool inaugural week for our team blog. I've seen lots of links to our blog from all over the place. It's awesome to know that you guys are interested in what we have to say. I've noticed that we've gotten a lot of feedback about...