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Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:01 PM

Craig's Bug

One of the things I love about this job is tracking downinteresting bugs. It’s like readinga good who-done-it, complete with plot twists, multiple potential suspects and a fascinating array of characters. Late last September, Craig Eisler submitted a
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Saturday, June 09, 2007 10:21 AM

The GM Shuffle

By now you’ve read the news . MacBU has a new general manager . I only found out about this via e-mail on Thursday, and, yesterday, I got a chance to meet Craig. I’ll get to my initial impressions of Craig in a bit, but I also want to talk a bit about
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 6:48 PM

There Comes a Time

In every project, there's a point where you have to stop tweaking this and touching up that little bit of behavior and focus on just fixing bugs. If you don't, then you never ship. Nadyne gave some of the details over on mac mojo . Well, we're getting
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:18 PM

Lounging Around at MacWorld

MacWorld always has its surprises, but some of them are quite personal. For me, the surprise was the discovery, at 5:20 this morning, that a previous occupant of my hotel room had set the alarm-clock but hadn't turned off the alarm. I've been told by
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:04 AM

Open XML Converters for Mac Office

There’s been a bit of flak about the Office Open XML file format converters for Mac Office. Sheridan posted an update on MacMojo, and Schwieb weighed in regarding some of the comments that people have made. There’s quite a bit of speculation gong on,
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Monday, August 28, 2006 1:26 PM

Muddy Mojo Waters

Somewhere in the backroads of Issaquena County, Mississippi, along the banks of the Mississippi river, McKinley Morganfield was born. Likely due to his early life so close to the Mississippi river, McKinley later came to be known as Muddy Waters. The
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:01 AM

Virtual PC and Visual Basic

Scene: A fly-over view of Microsoft's campus focuses in on the building that houses Mac BU. The camera "flight" enters one of the offices through a window. During the fly-over, a voice-over says: New 3.0 GHz Mac Pro: $3,599.00 Two 23" Apple Cinema HD
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:21 AM

What's Wrong with this Code: The Answer

Bjarne Stroustrup is a brilliant man, which means he's very good at defining programming languages. It also means he's not very good at writing books about the programming languages he's defined. His writing goal is concise precision. Unfortunately, for
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:44 PM

What's Wrong with this Code?

A while back, Erik Schwiebert wrote about some of the travails of moving our build system from one using CodeWarrior to one using XCode and GCC. Erik mentioned the huge number of errors and warnings we've had to resolve, but, in reading some of the reactions
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:17 PM

Mac Office 2004 Resource Kit

Looks like we've updated the Mac Office Resource Kit to Version 2. The Resource Kit is a guide for system administrators and other IT professionals who manage and support Office on a network. We have other deployment documentation that can be found on
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Saturday, June 03, 2006 12:56 PM

The History of Mac Office, Part I

We've all seen the scene. A group of people are having a discussion about something, and one older, and allegedly wiser, person has been sitting back just letting the discussion ramble on, until they meet some sort of impasse, at which point everyone
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 4:36 PM

Mac BU's Lab on Your Mac Life

I just checked in on Your Mac Life to see what was in store for tonight's show, and it turns out that they'll be interviewing David Weiss about our MacLab . I hope David remembers to remind Shawn about how to use page numbers in Word... Rick Currently
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Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:25 AM

Flying Pigs

Last July, pigs flew through Hyde Park , and yesterday they flew through Cupertino . The only thing I want to know is, of those who've installed Boot Camp, how many of them have dragged their task bar to the top of the screen? Rick Currently playing in
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Friday, March 24, 2006 4:53 PM

Of Intel Macs and Red Herrings

Scott Byer at Adobe put up a very nice post about the switch to intel and some of the growing pains many of us are going through. While I've added my own comments to Scott's piece, a number of my colleagues in Mac BU have asked me to weigh in on the subject
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:05 PM

A Ghost from Mac World Past

As many people at Mac World pointed out to me, I've been rather silent lately. There's a reason for that. Of the stuff that's on my mind lately, there just isn't a whole heck of a lot I can discuss publicly. Even telling you some of what I did at Mac
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