Mike goes out on a limb and writes his thoughts on Facebook and Open Social in response to some commends by Google's CEO....

I have been reading I.M. Wright's writings for a while now, and just recently received an email alerting me that his writings are and have been up on the web for all to see. Go here for good reads about software development.

In order to ship a polished product, you have to cut. Throughout the process of making the product you constantly redefine what it is that you are not shipping so that at the end you ship a known amount with high quality....

The hardest part of writing software: Dealing with what came before you and what will come after...

A collection of some good posts by other Microsoft bloggers to tell a tale about quality in software development....

Happy Holidays. Mike looks to you, the reader, to tell him what to write about....

First in a series of posts on how to add a plugin to PowerPoint 2007. This post covers creating a Custom Task Pane to manage selections....

I haven't posted for a while....

PowerPoint Table Styles XML (Part 2) - How to create a Table Style in PresentationML....

My life has been a little extra busy this week and I've had no time to blog.

PowerPoint Table Styles XML (Part 1) - This time, we look at the top layer of Table styles....

Mike has now worked at MS for 5 years! Happy Labor Day!...

In this post, we show how to use the Selection and Visibility Pane feature in Office 2007 (PowerPoint and Excel)....

In this post, we discuss some of the interesting design decisions of the Selection and Visibility Pane feature in Office 2007 (PowerPoint and Excel)....

Topics for the next few months - Mostly OfficeArt and PowerPoint details....

Mike introduces himself and lays down a few ground rules about his blog....