I found an interesting YouTube video of someone creating messenger-style people icons Final image from the video are shown below. Keep in mind these icons are created in a vector-based application. The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1H-57AaVg...

If you've installed the Forefront Client Security you'll notice this green icon with the checkmark in the notification area.   And a similar icon in the Start Menu   WHO DESIGNED IT? Sometimes in the middle of shipping a product one must make...

Today I applied PowerPoint to a slide we often use to illustrate how Forefront Client Security works at a very high level. The first slide is the simple version we use internally with modifications for color and style. The next uses the 3-D Rotation and...

This afternoon a colleague needed help with a org chart and I thought it would be a good opportunity to continue exploiting PowerPoint features. The file is attached here: msdn-saveenr-powerpoint-hotness-part-2-2007-06-20.pptx

At Microsoft there are three kinds of powerpoint slide decks one typically finds: technical note style - black & white, lots of data, tables, tiny text, usually printed and reviewed as a technical note. It is not projected during the meeting. Any...

As I go through my team's presentations I take available opportunities to replace bitmaps in those slides with the native graphics features in powerpoint . And then I found this slide: At first I doubted that I could replace the bitmap with native powerpoint...

Continuing from yesterdays's post about the FCS Reports , this evening I offer the management console:

As we built Forefront Client Security I would perodically take screenshots of the reports so that one day we could trace back how they evolved. As a glimpse into the inner process of product engineering I offer the following poster: