A quick note on my friend John Canning ( Media Center Evangelist extraordinaire ), who left Redmond recently for the wilds of Southern California. (The first link is to part one of his Channel 9 interview on Media Center... here's part two .) I had the...

I've seen a couple entries which are noting Xbox 360 bundles are available for pre-order . In my hunting, I found that RitzCamera is taking orders for the Xbox 360 Platinum System , which is one of two bundle configurations - this is the one I ordered...

This week in Redmond on campus is the 2005 MVP Global Summit . (For those who don't know, annual Global Summit for our MVPs is a chance for all levels of people across the Microsoft product and field groups to meet & greet, host and knoodle with the...

I received a link (thanks, Jonathan) to this post titled "Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide" on the Creating Passionate Users blog. I'm not sure that I characterize these customer-focused focus points as subversive . (BTW, a good "top...

As originally approved last year (Feb 2004) when the DVD Forum endorsed it, tonite Bloomberg carries a press release in Japan that Microsoft and Intel will back the HD-DVD format. (Full press release is also available here on MSN Money Central ). See...

Here's today's news of the Microsoft/Palm collaboration on the Treo 700 with Windows Mobile 5.0, as hinted at in Businessweek last week. See also the announcement on Microsoft.com . (Update 101006: this is an old link: please see this link for more on...

Whenever the Auxiliary Display on an Asus laptop makes an entrance, there's a buzz. I especially love it when people look at this feature as part of a series of fleeting features in a Windows Vista in a dimly lit room, and among is a gaggle of other cool...

Today in the Seattle Times' Here & Now Traffic Watch : Several thousand people are expected at Safeco Field today for a private, daylong business gathering. Pedestrian and vehicle traffic, including more than 200 charter buses , is likely to...

Enterprise Windows IT has a brief story this week on Windows OneCare which is in beta . Says E-W-IT: "If Windows OneCare is reasonably priced, plenty of consumers will be happy to forget all about viruses, firewalls, and file fragments and let the...

My kids clicked on some crazy web page yesterday and installed a piece of software that just wouldn't uninstall. (Note: I remembered today that I could've booted in safe mode and then unistalled the #$%&ware, but with two screaming boys scrambling...

The Washngton Post today has an interesting online transcript of a discussion between consumers and company execs to discuss customer service in the communications industry. Included were execs from Cingular Wireless, Cox Communications and Verizon. This...

OK, this has nothing to do with customer and partner sat, but for those who didn't see this Sunday's article in the Seattle Times on preparing for a disaster , I wanted to post it here. No matter where you are, there's always a chance that nature will...

Although I blog internally at Microsoft and kept up a family web site with regular updates going since our first boy arrived in the late 90's (a barn burner of bits), I thought it would be interesting to kick a blog off on MSDN. I’ve titled the...