Bit-cycling

“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.” —Bertrand Russell

It’s always the little things – ISO burning

I love the fact that Win7 has ISO burning built-in. I’m running a pre-release build of Win7, and...

Author: justsean Date: 07/24/2009

O. M. G. - “Get Ready for PowerPoint”

I’m not entirely sure what these folks are thinking, but I’m getting a little worried about our...

Author: justsean Date: 07/09/2009

Ah, Irony

The guy who writes the minimsft blog has a nicely honed sense of irony. And you know, speaking of...

Author: justsean Date: 04/23/2009

Castle and HomeGroup: A study in the evolution of user needs

Several years ago, at the beginning of the “Longhorn” project (which eventually became Windows...

Author: justsean Date: 01/16/2009

Impressive effects in PowerPoint

Not too long ago, I joined the PowerPoint team. Thought I spend most of my time working on a related...

Author: justsean Date: 12/12/2008

Weather alert

Something’s going on the interwebs. I think it might be hell freezing over. That’s really cool! I...

Author: justsean Date: 10/28/2008

The job of program management

In a detailed post over on E7 about the Win7 design process comes this: With regard to where ideas...

Author: justsean Date: 10/23/2008

Little things you may not have noticed in IE8: Part 7 – Stop and Refresh buttons

Move stop-and-refresh back to where they were in IE6 This was going to be my first post in this...

Author: justsean Date: 09/11/2008

Little things you may not have noticed in IE8: Part 6 – Authenticated RSS

  Authenticated RSS Feeds When we first released the Windows RSS platform a number of people...

Author: justsean Date: 09/10/2008

Little things you may not have noticed in IE8: Part 5 – Tab duplication

Clone your current place One of the nice things about the “New Window” (Ctrl-N) feature dating back...

Author: justsean Date: 09/09/2008

Little things you may not have noticed in IE8: Part 4 – OmniBox™

Use your address bar for searching A little-known fact is that IE has always had a combination...

Author: justsean Date: 09/08/2008

Searching the future This morning I wanted to find out where I read about that “Skymarket”...

Author: justsean Date: 09/05/2008

Little things you may not have noticed in IE8: Part 2 – Formatted View Source

Formatted View Source You don’t have to be a pro developer to love this one. Since the very...

Author: justsean Date: 09/04/2008

Little things you may not have noticed in IE8: Part I – Search Quick Pick

IE8 has a lot of big new features (see the IE blog for more of that), but what I like about it is...

Author: justsean Date: 09/03/2008

I guess they don’t like us anymore

I don’t think Yahoo likes us anymore. IE8 Beta 2 ships, and they start pushing Firefox on their home...

Author: justsean Date: 08/28/2008

Steven Sinofsky brings his writing talents to the masses

I had to chuckle this afternoon when Steven Sinofsky exploded upon the Internet with one of his...

Author: justsean Date: 08/19/2008

Stupid Outlook Tricks: The back button

A long time ago, someone decided that Outlook should be able to browse web pages inside its frame*....

Author: justsean Date: 08/09/2008

Keyboards can be fun, too

Those who know me know that I have something of a keyboard/mouse fascination. I’ve gotten almost...

Author: justsean Date: 08/08/2008

A lesson in branding: PC laptop manufacturers

When you look at this picture, you are overwhelmed by Apple logos. There are other laptops there,...

Author: justsean Date: 08/07/2008

Surfing through my phone – Windows Vista and Windows Mobile

A long time ago when I worked on Windows XP, I worked on a project to add Bluetooth PAN support to...

Author: justsean Date: 08/06/2008

A laptop that makes me grin – Lenovo Thinkpad X300

About a month ago (shortly after joining a new team), I upgraded laptops at work. For the first time...

Author: justsean Date: 08/06/2008

Cake Delivery Services R us

Yesterday morning I got a call from my old buddies on the IE team asking me to help out with a cake...

Author: justsean Date: 06/18/2008

Big Screen Headlines updates

I’ve been using Media Center for about 3 years as my primary TV viewing solution. One of...

Author: justsean Date: 04/03/2008

WebSlice Viewer Gadget (Alpha)

Update (3/13/2009): This sidebar gadget no longer works against IE8 (Release Candidate or higher)....

Author: justsean Date: 03/19/2008

IE to remove "Click to Activate"

Great news from the IE Blog: Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled...

Author: justsean Date: 11/09/2007

Exchange 2000 Launch Video

Many years ago, I worked on the Exchange team. We used to have these conferences called,...

Author: justsean Date: 10/24/2007

"No meaningful competition"

In this article about Bill Gates' transition, we find this gem: For much of Microsoft's existence,...

Author: justsean Date: 08/28/2007

Razzle-Dazzle

Now, I've been reading Jonathan Schwartz's blog for a while now (he's CEO of Sun Microsystems), and...

Author: justsean Date: 08/23/2007

Exchange team defines a Program Manager

Regular readers* of this blog will know that I have a thing for definitions of program management...

Author: justsean Date: 08/17/2007

The more things change, the more things stay the same

Some years ago Chris Pratley, an Office GPM, wrote an interesting article that talks about some of...

Author: justsean Date: 08/16/2007

"We've got a million ideas... if not two million."

Now this is how powerful software gets made.

Author: justsean Date: 08/14/2007

Sean's Maxim of the Day

Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side -- because it's well-fertilized with bullsh*t. or,...

Author: justsean Date: 07/09/2007

Welcome to the Jungle

Monday: Safari for Windows (beta) announced . Tuesday: Six vulnerabilities found. Thursday: Safari...

Author: justsean Date: 06/25/2007

Taskbar Shuffle

I install and uninstall dozens of pieces of software weekly. I also (perhaps as a result of the...

Author: justsean Date: 06/19/2007

Reminiscing: Native HTTP in SQL Server 2005

A long time ago (c. 2001), I had a stint on the SQL Server team (it lasted about 9 months). One of...

Author: justsean Date: 06/14/2007

Former Intern makes Good

The tall white dude in the middle of this picture is none other than Chrix Finne of IE RSS team...

Author: justsean Date: 06/07/2007

Windows Vista Aero in slow motion

One of the newer things in Windows Vista is the Aero interface, which includes, along with the new...

Author: justsean Date: 06/01/2007

Chess in Silverlight 2

The Silverlight folks have created a chess-playing demo in Silverlight 2. The game is here:...

Author: justsean Date: 06/01/2007

Mark Russinovich vs Microsoft Marketing

"This slide...this being a keynote, the marketing people had to make a pass through the deck. And...

Author: justsean Date: 05/30/2007

New Look

Those of you who read this blog in an RSS reader may not have noticed, but this blog underwent some...

Author: justsean Date: 05/14/2007

Messages from an RSS blog reader

I love the internet. A series of interesting comments were posted to the RSS Team blog. I am the...

Author: justsean Date: 04/27/2007

Apple Security Mega-Patch

I'm going to deviate off my usual path to do a little nyah-nyah at a competitor. Seems that Apple...

Author: justsean Date: 03/15/2007

Vista DST coolness

Blah, blah, blah, Daylight Saving Time is changing... Yawn. This, however, is very cool mini-feature...

Author: justsean Date: 03/06/2007

Web 2.0

Just watch it. (via John Battelle's Searchblog via Techmeme.)

Author: justsean Date: 02/19/2007

Windows and Office Launch Video

I like this one, too.

Author: justsean Date: 02/16/2007

On names and codenames...

The naming of products at Microsoft is something that never ceases to fascinate the world. The...

Author: justsean Date: 02/09/2007

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