I got there early, but it was already pretty crowded. Fortunately there was an empty seat next to Lesley and Jen so I was able to get a good spot. He also spoke this morning on Seattle radio station KUOW (download the MP3 here ) and on Science Friday...

As a long-time fan of Steven Pinker , I'm excited that he'll be visiting Microsoft this week to discuss his new book, the Stuff of Thought. (If you'll be in the Seattle area, you can also see him at Town Hall Seattle on Wednesday at 7:30pm). What questions...

I run Windows Vista on every machine I have, at work, at home, everywhere, and I have since day one. I have my share of complaints, but one thing I've never seen on Vista is a bluescreen. So although I was sympathetic when Alec Saunders finally had enough...

Well, at $60 it might as well be stealing . If you're a student, you can get Office Ultimate 2007 for only $59.95 . This is no dumbed-down edition, either. It's the real deal, with every big-time Office app you've ever wanted: Word/Excel/Powerpoint...

Former Microsoft Speech Server PM , scientist, and (now) professional jewelry artist Anandi is selling her creations , like this one: She recycles ugly department store pieces and turns them into something wearable, at reasonable prices. I don't think...

Americans are notoriously bad at languages -- so bad, in fact, that we often don't even understand how hard it can be to speak something other than English. How many people do you know who claim to speak French or Spanish or whatever, but when you press...

I stand by the bet I made in January that Apple's iPhone won't sell anywhere near the 10M units they're targeting for their first year. You don't cut the price of something that's selling well. One of my friends at T-Mobile, who knows the business extremely...

Okay, fine, I'll post something to this blog again. I said I would try to switch to my main blog for everything, but I can't help it. There's too much happening at work, and my other readers just don't care as much about this as you do. Anyway, it's been...