Jim Baker, who along with wife Janet started Dragon Naturally Speaking ten years ago, is moving to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University to direct a new center focused on language technology used by the Defense Department. The goal of the project, nicely...

Karen asked me: Hi Richard. I am fairly new to blogging but enjoyed yours on FaceTalk. Question for you: I am organizing a customer advisory council with about 10 customers in the same room and want to be able to record the conversation; and have it transcribed...

I've been on Facebook for a couple of years as a Stanford alumnus, but lately it really seems to be taking off and lots of my friends are showing up there, including many Microsoft colleagues. I like Facebook, particularly relative to other social networking...

That didn't take long: there are now more computers running Vista than OS X . Of course that was only a matter of time, since virtually every new PC these days comes with Vista pre-installed. Something like 50M+ units since Vista shipped.

The UC team has a funny introduction to their "VOIP As You Are" ad campaign for the upcoming release of Office Communications Server. The Beta for both the server and client are available for download now. You get a different intro each time you click...

My new job involves understanding the phone business, so JJ suggested I read the book America Calling by Claude Fischer, a social history of the telephone from its invention to 1940. I found myself trying to explain instant messaging the other day to...

I'm in Orlando today on a very fast trip to help the MS Connections team get up to speed on Response Point. It's not that hard to set up a Response Point system, so even though I'm only a few weeks into my new job, I'm able to talk about it with some...

Speaking of business trips , another reason I wish I was going next week is to try out the new PairUp business travel system. Ever find yourself going someplace on a plane surrounded by other travelers who are going to the same location? It's only after...

I joined my new team too late to get reservations to the Microsoft Partner Conference in Denver next week, but it's going to be a huge event for us, since something like 10,000 Microsoft partners will be gathering there for three days of keynotes, sessions...

Miguel Dias, director of the Language Development Center we set up in Lisbon a few years ago is featured in this month's Microsoft Magazine (in Portuguese), along with a case study from Norberto Pires .