Scott sent me this list of ways to make computers more useful: http://www.tobynopoly.com/wish/computer.html

Channel 9 just posted a new video of Albert Kooiman, Mithun Dhar, and David Ollason from the Speech Server team talking about the new 2007 version. I'm laughing as I read the comments so far. "Watch a Dutch guy speaking English". Maybe that should...

Yet another way to stay in touch with the speech team: several new speech newsgroups are live: Under http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx English > Servers > Server Applications > Speech Server > Speech...

This is a bit old (April 24) but I just noticed that I haven't blogged it yet, so here goes. If you haven't seen this article , it's worth a look. It's the San Francisco Chronicle's nice overview of various new speech companies and they ways they are...

Microoptical Corporation in Westwood, Massachusetts, has started selling something I've wanted for years. It's a cheap video viewer that looks like a thick pair of sunglasses but lets you view full-screen video. They sell the MyVu Personal Media Viewer...

If you're interested in how Microsoft develops spell-checkers, word breakers, grammar checkers, and more natural language components, be sure to look at the new Natural Language team blog .

I forgot to thank Stephen for pointing us to the Onion article about word processing wars. My friends in Natural Language are still laughing about it.