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Microsoft main campus in snow 2008

This slideshow shows what Microsoft main campus looked like on December 23, 2008, under a blanket of white after a big snow storm. (At least, it's big by Seattle standards.) Add your own pictures to this feed by emailing them here , to my Microsoft Snow Read More...
Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 8:51 PM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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Funny TechSpeak Video: Rockwell’s Retro Encabulator

This video reminds me of my first couple of weeks at Microsoft, where people seemed to be speaking a different language made up exclusively of acronyms, code-names and whacky milestones. Drinking from the firehose. Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 06, 2008 2:55 AM by KarinM | 0 Comments
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Message to Yahoo: How to Negotiate with Microsoft

Message to Yahoo: How to Negotiate with Microsoft , the movie. Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:28 AM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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Yuk yuk, Life at Microsoft

Life at Microsoft: the Movie . It’s pretty funny. It’s pretty real. Doesn’t every group have a ton of those Nerf guns? Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:53 AM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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Developer Heroes comic strip

Team mate Jason Sacks is doing that comic book thing again . He’s working on a joint Microsoft/ Seagate project to venerate developers and IT professionals in a “Heros Happen Here” comic strip that’s being published daily. This is part of the community-driven Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:19 PM by KarinM | 1 Comments

Sloshing through slush

Sloshing through the slush between buildings today got me thinking about the snowstorm that covered main campus this very same week last year. Remember the parking lot gridlock at 3:00 PM when the BMWs couldn't make it up the exit ramps? Remember all Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 19, 2008 3:35 AM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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Melinda Gates goes public

... about living with Bill, working with Warren Buffett, and giving away their billions in this in-depth article in the January 7 Forbes . It’s billed as her “first-ever” profile and gives a bit of insight into the very private woman that most at Microsoft Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 3:12 AM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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Bill Gates Last Day Video

Goofball. http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2008/01/07/bill-gates-last-day-video.aspx Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 6:53 AM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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Bill and Hillary Clinton at Microsoft - what an inspiration

Bill Clinton is an inspiring speaker that makes you feel good about America and the world as he talks of the power each and every person has to make a difference . His passion for giving and civic duty is infectious and the crowd at the Microsoft Conference Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 7:56 AM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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I want to be a pirate...

I want to be Jack Sparrow. Being Jack means you can be as outrageous as you like, the rules are all off. I spent one day as Captain Jack when Developer Division had a pirate theme for Halloween, and it was a blast. Can't wait for my next chance to pull Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 3:42 AM by KarinM | 3 Comments
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It’s like 2000 again with the stock price at $35

Folks were smiling in Redmond today with Microsoft shares up nearly 12 percent, to $35.76 a share. We all feel a little fatter, especially Bill Gates, who grew $2.67 billion richer today after Microsoft trounced analysts' estimates for sales and profit, Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 27, 2007 7:20 AM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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My PUM Lori Pearce talks about the Windows SDK on Channel 9

Lori Pearce, my own Product Unit Manager, was just interviewed on Channel 9 in a video I find both informative and inspiring. How does the Windows SDK Team build a product that supports development using both the Win32 and .NET Framework programming models? Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:44 PM by KarinM | 0 Comments

FxCop Honored with Chairman's Award for Engineering Excellence

Microsoft’s prestigious Engineering Excellence Chairman's Award was awarded to Mike Fanning, Krzysztof Cwalina , and Brad Abrams for the design of FxCop , which ships as a standalone tool and in Visual Studio 2005 and later. Pretty exciting stuff for Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2007 6:33 AM by KarinM | 0 Comments

So how much can you learn in 99 seconds?

Well, a lot it seems. Yesterday was PM Day at Microsoft, the yearly event where hundreds of program managers converge to learn tricks and tips from the best. My favorite was Charlie Peterson’s 99-Second Program Management Talks, in which we heard 25 speakers Read More...
Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 11:28 PM by KarinM | 0 Comments
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Japanese Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Vista

We’ve just released Japanese Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Vista , the first localized Windows SDK! It was a very different experience for our team with all new challenges and the opportunity to work with some great folks on the Localization Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:30 PM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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