I was asked by someone who reads my internal blog to post my note on an article I read just after it was announced that Kevin Turner was joining Microsoft. Part of the article referenced his interest in inspirational quotes which he uses to motivate his...

From Scoble’s Blog… Is Jason Fried's brother and sister working at Microsoft? (Hadi Partovi, what are you thinking?) “Today I found out the truth. You let this thing ship with only two people working on it. With no testers. No document people. No...

Over the last year I've met with people all across the product groups looking at the Microsoft customer experience. I see the incredible challenges and efforts we face each day as a company, using our own products as employees and as customers. I’ve been...

I noticed that Sean Alexander said that Windows Media Connect 2.0 has been released - very nice for those with MCE PCs or those thinking about purchasing one, especially when it will work with some of the slickest devices out there including Media Center...

Last week in an EWeek article on phishing , it was noted that screen scraping attacks are becoming more common in scammer's schemes to subvert sophisticated security systems. (Say that five times fast.) MSN has a page with more info on battling phishing...

I spoke with Jeff Sandquist ( http://www.jeffsandquist.com/ ) last week on Channel 9 and some of the new features. Yesterday I saw that Channel 9 launched Clipster , which introduces personal video recorder for video blogs on Channel 9, allowing users...

Although I use this space as a look at customer and partner satisfaction, a quick "good luck" to Sara and her husband on their way to Waveland. I heard from several people at the office that her bake sale was a success. Here's more info about her quest...

If you haven't found it yet, you should click over to Steven Sinofsky's Techtalk - he's a senior vice president at Microsoft in the Office group. (more info available here) . Today in his posting on "Bureaucracy. Threat or menace?" he talks about a class...

Today my youngest son stayed home from school with the same thing his father has... coming off a really bad cold. I had a string of meetings and discussions, some of which I participated through Office Live Meeting . I used the regular dial-in conference...