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November 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:26 PM

A day in the life, usability edition

A few weeks ago, Brad told us what a day in his life is like . Inspired by Brad, here's a day in the life of a user experience researcher. My days are highly variable, depending on whether I'm doing a usability study or not, so I'm not sure if this description
Posted by nadyne | 12 Comments
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:35 PM

Speaking of numbers...

One of the features in Excel I'm in charge of testing is "Calculation, Functions, and Formulas", which (surprise!) is exactly what it sounds like. Being a big math and numbers geek, I was very excited to learn that I would inherit these features when
Posted by joeleblanc | 10 Comments
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Friday, November 10, 2006 12:16 PM

Living complexity

Brad's Carl Sagan-style post on code size stirs up some familiar questions about complexity management here at MacBU. With every release of Office, we remove, rewrite and add new code. Often we can remove significant amounts of code without losing functionality
Posted by Geoff Price | 14 Comments
Friday, November 03, 2006 12:09 AM

It's all in the numbers ...

A friend of mine and I were shooting the ... breeze (freaking ‘G' ratings for blogs) and he was asking me when the next version of Office was coming out. Now being the wise Microsoft spin doctor that I am, and having spent numerous hours being brainwashed
Posted by ExCntx | 52 Comments
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:00 AM

MacBOO to you! Happy Halloween and TidBITs Treats!

Today kicks off our official sponsorship of TidBITS , and it's a real Halloween treat for us to work with this legendary online newsletter (sixteen years and counting) and the amazing Adam and Tonya Engst. We've been talking to them a bunch since Macworld
Posted by sherjo | 2 Comments
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