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Cool Developers STILL use Speech APIs
10 August 09 03:12 PM

My apologies that there have been no new posts on this blog for nearly a year.  Because my personal and professional lives have taken a new direction, my Microsoft blog will be closing. I highly recommend the Speech @ Microsoft blog for more up-to-date Read More...

Postedby Charles Oppermann | (Comments Off)    

Filed under: Speech - APIs, Microsoft, Miscellanous, SDK, History

Cool Developers Go Flying
13 May 07 01:24 AM

Last week the speech team wrapped up a milestone of work and to celebrate I took up our group program manager Richard Sprague up for a quick tour of downtown Seattle, the Eastside area including Bill Gates' house and the main Microsoft campus in Redmond. Read More...

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Filed under: Travel, Miscellanous

Upgrading to Windows Vista
08 February 07 08:23 PM

I've personally found the upgrade process from Windows XP to Windows Vista to be seamless. However, I know that people have concerns about their software and devices working with a new version of the operating system. In Windows Vista there is pro-active Read More...

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Filed under: Miscellanous

How NASA Can Help Microsoft
13 December 06 10:46 AM

On an internal blog at Microsoft, I came across a posting by a Corporate VP on some books he was going read while on vacation. One of the books was a autobiography of one of my hero's, Gene Kranz , who was Flight Director for several flights in Project Read More...

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Filed under: Microsoft, Miscellanous

Steve Wozniak at Microsoft
06 October 06 02:35 PM

One of the things I love about Microsoft is that you often get talk with, or listen to interesting people. Over the years, I got to shake hands with Steven Spielberg (wearing a Microsoft Bob baseball cap), Jay Leno ( Windows 95 launch ), Stevie Wonder Read More...

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Filed under: Microsoft, Miscellanous, Apple