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new blog from the Vista Shell team
20 September 06 12:27 PM | michaelaffronti | 7 Comments   
The Windows Shell Team has a new blog entitled " Shell Revealed ". From the site… Welcome to shell:revealed, the home of the Windows Client team. We're the folks that build the core user interface for Windows and we love every minute of it! shell:revealed Read More...
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IWCenter podast
17 September 06 10:37 PM | michaelaffronti | 2 Comments   
About two weeks I did a great interview with Shawn Murrary for his podcast on the IWCenter . Shawn's site is a fantastic source of information on Office 2007 and how many of the new features across all of the products will change the way information worker Read More...
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Top 10 Ways to Motivate a Geek
18 July 06 08:46 AM | michaelaffronti | 2 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...
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FeedBurner acquires blog analytics firm
17 July 06 08:27 AM | michaelaffronti | 1 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...
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neophilia
12 July 06 09:04 AM | michaelaffronti | 1 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...
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Microsoft’s iPod killer
07 July 06 08:45 AM | michaelaffronti | 3 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...
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Gnomedex 6.0 baby!
29 June 06 01:52 PM | michaelaffronti | 0 Comments   
Gnomedex 6.0 starts tonight! Last year was a blast and I'm looking forward to attending this weekend. I'll be there with a bunch of other folks from Microsoft representing Office, XBox, Windows Live, Vista, and a bunch of other teams. We'll have a little Read More...
Blogging from Word 2007
12 May 06 10:18 AM | michaelaffronti | 1 Comments   
My friend and colleague Joe Friend over in Word 2007 land (actually just upstairs from my office) has released the details of some awesome new functionalty enabled in the Word 2007 Beta 2: http://blogs.msdn.com/joe_friend/archive/2006/05/12/595963.aspx Read More...
Article: Internet agency considers '.tel' domain name
17 April 06 08:56 AM | michaelaffronti | 60 Comments   
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/04/14/contact.domain.name.ap/ “To help people manage all their contact information online, the Internet's key oversight agency is considering a ".tel" domain name. If approved, the domain could be available this Read More...
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10x10 - an amazing use of RSS
31 March 06 09:40 AM | michaelaffronti | 0 Comments   
http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html From their site: Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. Read More...
The Name
17 February 06 10:03 AM | michaelaffronti | 4 Comments   
It's here... finally! We've closed on the new name for our product, and I'm pumped to announce it as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. No logos to show you guys yet, but stay tuned. The official name of the entire product line is the 2007 Microsoft Office Read More...
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U.S. Government using MSN Search technology
27 January 06 10:49 AM | michaelaffronti | 0 Comments   
The U.S. government has recently expanded its search capabilities across many of its public-facing internet sites using technology from MSN that was previously Microsoft-only, allowing for a more "citizen-focused" information portal. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1915378,00.as Read More...
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Congressmen Blogging
26 January 06 07:31 AM | michaelaffronti | 2 Comments   
There are now at least 11 confirmed Congressmen blogging on either their own sites or as guest authors on different political sites. Why is this cool? Most people don't associate political figures with blogs in a good light, let alone having them blog Read More...
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Portable Media Devices - where's my content?
15 January 06 09:01 AM | michaelaffronti | 4 Comments   
As a long-time lover of gadgets, music, movies, and all things in between, as well as being the proud owner of a TiVo, Media Center, and multiple PMD (portable media devices), I think the battle between consumers, artists, and production companies about Read More...
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