Welcome to my MSDN Blog.
I am currently working on Macintosh applications at Microsoft's office in Beijing, China. I have been a Microsoft employee since the start-up where I used to work, WebTV Networks, was acquired in 1997. WebTV slowly reorganized into Microsoft TV, and in 2004 I moved to Redmond headquarters to work on Speech Recognition, Natural Language, and ultimately a VOIP phone system for small businesess.
Before Microsoft, I ran the evangelism team at Apple Computer in Japan, where I lived for 7 years in the late 80s and 90s. I have an MBA from Wharton U-Penn and an undergrad degree in Computational Linguistics from Stanford.
You can find more about me at http://www.richardsprague.com, which includes contact information and pointers to my other non-Microsoft blogs and ideas.