July 2006 - Posts

Paul Thurrott’s Review of Office 2007 Beta 2
18 July 06 09:20 AM | michaelaffronti | 3 Comments   

Paul wrote a great review of Office 2007 Beta 2 at his Windows Supersite . The second part of the article focuses in on Outlook 2007, and I'll quote directly from the site as Paul talks about some of the features that are near and dear to my heart… Instant Read More...

Top 10 Ways to Motivate a Geek
18 July 06 08:46 AM | michaelaffronti | 3 Comments   

I couldn't resist posting about this article . It's a decent read and highlights some of the issues I see affecting us here at Microsoft every day. It's my first visit to the Retrospector's blog and I've already subscribed; another good read is the linked Read More...

Filed under: General, Technology News

FeedBurner acquires blog analytics firm
17 July 06 08:27 AM | michaelaffronti | 3 Comments   

CNET has an article about how syndication firm FeedBurner has acquired blog analytics firm BlogBeat.net in a move designed to give FeedBurner customers more insight into what types of headlines and articles its users are viewing and interacting with. Read More...

Filed under: Technology News

another convert...
14 July 06 10:39 AM | michaelaffronti | 1 Comments   

Robert and I had a great discussion the other day about how RSS Feeds and their related information are roamed through Exchange when using Outlook 2007 as your aggregator of choice. He's posted about it here . Thanks for the great feedback Robert! Read More...

iJacking
13 July 06 11:30 AM | michaelaffronti | 1 Comments   

Yahoo News wrote this morning about how Sperling's Best Places rates Seattle #2 in the top ten worst cities for identify theft. Great. TEN MOST RISKY CITIES 1) San Francisco 2) Seattle 3) Denver 4) San Jose 5) San Diego 6) Atlanta 7) Salt Lake City 8) Read More...

neophilia
12 July 06 09:04 AM | michaelaffronti | 3 Comments   

As reported on Slashdot this morning, apparently there is a medical reason for the fact that I can't get enough of the latest gadgets as they hit the market. Finally a reason exists to justify to my parents why I needed every single toy, electronic device, Read More...

Filed under: Technology News

Dupes part deux
10 July 06 01:12 PM | michaelaffronti | 15 Comments   

There's been some conversations going on about how Outlook is handling duplicate RSS items and what that means for bloggers. Sorry for the confusion – what we've done in Outlook 2007 recently around duplicates is to reduce the erroneous amount that occur Read More...

Filed under: RSS Aggregation

Re-inventing the mail client
10 July 06 08:48 AM | michaelaffronti | 4 Comments   

Gabor has a great blog post on how researchers are changing the ways we should approach information overload in our mail clients. He cites Outlook as a specific example of the 'old' three-pane view and discuss three new areas that researchers are focused Read More...

Microsoft’s iPod killer
07 July 06 08:45 AM | michaelaffronti | 6 Comments   

Ah, the beauty of competition . The term 'open secret' has been used several times in reference to the rumors of Microsoft creating our own version of a portable media player with all sorts of WiFi and Live connectivity goodness. The most interesting Read More...

Filed under: Technology News

Dupes be gone!
06 July 06 09:28 AM | michaelaffronti | 18 Comments   

Duplicate items are an RSS aggregator's worst enemy, and many of the dedicated folks who are using Outlook 2007 Beta 2 know we did not do a great job in that build of handling the many ways that dupes can occur. Since the Beta 2 build we've made numerous Read More...

Filed under: RSS Aggregation

Open XML Translator announced
06 July 06 08:04 AM | michaelaffronti | 2 Comments   

Microsoft announced the Open XML Translator project yesterday as detailed in Brian Jones' blog post . It will be an open-source project to create a translation layer between the Office Open XML and OpenDocument formats. This comes in line with a few other Read More...

Blake Ross interview from Gnomedex
05 July 06 08:33 AM | michaelaffronti | 3 Comments   

Blake Ross led a great discussion at Gnomedex on Saturday, and the Seattle PI just published an interview they had with him at lunch. He continues his discussion about where FireFox is headed, the competition presented by IE 7, and growth opportunities Read More...

New theme
05 July 06 08:23 AM | michaelaffronti | 5 Comments   

Trying out a new theme, let me know what you think… I'm going to muck with the CSS later and try to put some cool images in. Read More...

Gnomedex gets press
01 July 06 09:42 AM | michaelaffronti | 4 Comments   

Senator Edwards' appearance at Gnomedex yesterday sparked a great article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer… http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/276108_gnomedex01.html "John Edwards, the former U.S. vice presidential candidate, sought common ground Read More...