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Testing Community Based Open Source projects for corporations

Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5:41 PM by jledgard
John's blog postings on testing open source projects where recently picked up by Mary Jo . Not bad PR for the work our team has been doing and good lessons to read if your team is looking at taking components open. Our team has learned many lessons about Read More...
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Good hire by Sandy & Crew... Yag goes to work on Communities

Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 9:32 AM by jledgard
Yag, a fixture in the foxpro/data community, has decided to take on the challenge of architecting community platform infrastructure at Microsoft. This means that he’ll get to hear at lot more of my griping and brain farts than he did when he was Read More...
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When will other products be as responsive?

Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:57 AM by jledgard
Here is a mail from one of my blog readers about our responsiveness during Whidbey. I'm hoping that our product groups will be just as, if not more, responsive during Orcas. Want to know how to increase your teams customer sat... -----Original Message----- Read More...
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The importance of setting good examples

Posted Monday, January 09, 2006 11:16 AM by jledgard
http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/mickey_gousset/archive/2006/01/06/590.aspx Given that, I shot an email off to Soma expressing my appreciation, but I didn't necessarily expect to hear back right way, if at all. And now comes the part where I say Microsoft Read More...
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Good Feedback on VS 2005 Documentation

Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:51 AM by jledgard
[ Via Mickey ] If you have installed Visual Studio 2005, and have not checked out the documentation included with it, then you need to. Go to: Start->All Programs->Microsoft Visual Studio 2005->Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Documentation This Read More...
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10 Reasons to Love Microsoft

Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:09 AM by jledgard
I read a lot of the Weblogs, Inc Network content. Its just good stuff and they hire good bloggers. Amongst all the hatred you experience as a Microsoft employee it's nice to see a post more in line with the holiday spirit. Though the comments aren't as Read More...
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Rob Caron Attempts to Define Community

Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 9:29 AM by jledgard
I have a lot of respect for everything that Rob and the Team System crew has accomplished top to bottom in the "Community Space". In his most recent blog post Rob attempts to define what he considers the community space, the impact its had on our releases, Read More...
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Cross Posted Top MSDN Forum Users and Forums for June

Posted Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:39 PM by jledgard
This is cross posted from the announcement on the MSDN Forums I just made . Who's posted the most replies marked as answers from the end of May to June? Who are the domain experts? Here is the June view of top forum users! In June (5/20-6/30) Top Answerers Read More...
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Blown Away by our Customers

Posted Saturday, March 19, 2005 1:56 PM by jledgard
I haven't yet figured out exactly why certain posts become more popular than others. I never really expected much of a response from this . I cross posted it over at Channel9 because the customer creativity there that inspired me to open up our teams Read More...
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Another Believer: "Microsoft Does Listen"

Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:34 AM by jledgard
Thanks to Rob Caron , who forwarded this to me. Via Jeff Putz In a post from Tom Arnold , PM and ninja for VSTS Test, he says in response to my post that the stuff I didn't like about the testing stuff will be fixed in beta 2. Rock on. That's good news. Read More...
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Visual Studio Hacks Book

Posted Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:56 AM by jledgard
Today James Avery announced that his book , Visual Studio Hacks, will be published by O'Reilly and available in February or March. "I can finally announce the book I have been working on for so long. The book is called Visual Studio Hacks and is being Read More...
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Hearing Voices

Posted Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:40 PM by jledgard
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottdockendorf/archive/2005/01/11/350765.aspx "See, our voices are heard throughout the Microsoft community (and product teams) Through the MSDN Product Feedback Center, Bob Willer requested debugging support in Unit Tests in Whidbey Read More...
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We Got Your Back: Measuring Success

Posted Monday, December 27, 2004 12:45 PM by jledgard
One reason that my team (Developer Division Customer Connection Team) exists is to ultimately raise developer satisfaction. Its our belief that we can effect satisfaction by improving the product group team connections with their customers. Its always Read More...
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Recent Developer Community Wins

Posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:02 PM by jledgard
Internally I try and send out mails that recognize cool contributions Microsoft people have made to the community every other month. In the latest issue I wrote a little poem to go with the mail. It's been suggested that I post this to my blog as well. Read More...
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Enter to Win the Bug of the Week Award

Posted Monday, December 13, 2004 9:35 PM by jledgard
I took some heat before for suggesting that people should file their bugs against the VS Betas on the Feedback Center as part of the Smart Client bug reporting challenge. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment because I'm going to link the our ongoing "Bug Read More...
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