Somewhere down a yellow brick road ....

Just got back from a family-vacation trip to Zion - Byrce - Grand Canyon . [Flew into Vegas, rented a car, drove to St. George Utah , rented an RV , used a RV Park as a base and did lots of great day trips and hikes in canyon country] . My Q1 UMPC has...

WinHEC 2007 seems to have gone well. UMPC exposure was pretty-decent. Bill Gates showed off UMPCs in his keynote. I presented a session on UMPCs (somewhat ambiguously titled ‘UMPC Ecosystem’ – I’ll post a link to the slides when they become public) and...

[Nothing exciting today] Just a quick note that I will be presenting a UMPC session (think ' UMPC 101 ') at WinHEC in LA next week. If you're attending, do stop by the UMPC pavilion booth and/or attend the session or subsequent 'chalktalk'. Once we...

Once upon a time, when I first joined Microsoft, product-creation (at least as I experienced it, on the relatively smaller projects I worked on) seemed like a fairly simple process. Give a problem to a bunch of smart people. Let them brainstorm possible...

By now, after having been forum’d, twitter’d, and even youtube’d (Thanks, CTitanic!), the UMPCScrollbar has hopefully found a happy home on all your UMPCs. Curious minds have been asking why this wasn’t released earlier. And whether this is a candidate...

While many people seem pleased with the UMPC scrollbar utility I released earlier this week, reports continue to trickle in that an unlucky few are not seeing the scrollbar when they run the utility. Ouch! - this is just the kind of inexplicable bug I...

Half the human brain (the half not fixated on media celebrities) is directly or indirectly associated with vision. Evolution has apparently decided that what we see, matters. Just as our eyes are our primary windows to our world, the displays on our mobile...

Mobile technology – it’s everywhere! In the time it took you to read this sentence, a new generation of mobile devices and gadgets probably swept the planet, proliferating faster than the latest unfathomable social-networking fad . Mobility messaging...

Greetings! My name is Vikram Madan and I am currently a Development Manager on the Microsoft team chartered with incubating the relatively-new Windows Ultra Mobile-PC category (aka UMPCs or Microsoft Origami UMPCs ). In the last few years, I have had...