Rob's Rhapsody

I get a lot of email from customers every day. And some days I end up answering the same questions again and again. Don't get me wrong, I love hearing from customers, and I love enabling them to do great things with Microsoft products. The real problem...

We take security seriously here at Microsoft. For example, every single developer, program manager, and tester that I know has taken several security training courses in the last few years. In fact there's even an online system here at Microsoft that...

Today a customer wrote in and asked: "I was wondering if you knew if Vista stores its data files of a users speech pattern in such a way so it can be transferred to other computers; in particular if I was to re-install my operating system." Good question...

I've blogged about how to find the Speech APIs on MSDN before, but have you wondered if anybody is writing apps for Speech in Vista? Well ... Yes they are. One particularly useful app I recently read about was written by Casey Chesnut . He's been into...

CrunchGear posted a comparison of Apple's OS X and Windows Vista yesterday, going over feature by feature discussing similarities and differences. For each feature CrunchGear declared a winner. It was neat to see that one of the areas they compared OS...

There seem to be a lot of videos of Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) floating around the internet these last few days since the final release of Windows Vista. Some are intended to be funny . But some are really good demonstrations of WSR in action. ...

I recently met a bunch of great guys (and gals) over in Search-land here at Microsoft that are working on the Live Search for Windows Mobile application. So it was a pretty cool thing that last night they just released the final build of their version...

Just found this walk-thru of Live Search for Windows mobile that I blogged about this morning . Thought you might find it interesting too...

Last week I wrote about how to transfer profiles using the Easy Transfer Wizard . That generated some email and some questions in the community about how to do this programmatically. That's a good question. But unfortunately, the answer isn't that...

Here's a question that I get from time to time... Q: How do I install speech recognition for a language other than the language Windows Vista is running in? A: By installing a language pack. Language packs are the Windows way of installing additional...

If you're using Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista, and you're also using Microsoft Word 2007, you might be wondering... How can I access things that are on different tabs in the new Microsoft Word UI with just one command, instead of two. This...