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Saturday, June 30, 2007 7:15 AM

Messenger style People Icons with Xara Xtreme

I found an interesting YouTube video of someone creating messenger-style people icons Final image from the video are shown below. Keep in mind these icons are created in a vector-based application. The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1H-57AaVg
Posted by saveenr | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:23 PM

Why does the Forefront Client Security Icon look so ugly?

If you've installed the Forefront Client Security you'll notice this green icon with the checkmark in the notification area.   And a similar icon in the Start Menu   WHO DESIGNED IT? Sometimes in the middle of shipping a product one must make
Posted by saveenr | 5 Comments
Saturday, June 23, 2007 2:26 PM

PowerPoint 2007 hotness: part 3 - Forefront Client Security overview

Today I applied PowerPoint to a slide we often use to illustrate how Forefront Client Security works at a very high level. The first slide is the simple version we use internally with modifications for color and style. The next uses the 3-D Rotation and
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Attachment(s): msdn-saveenr-powerpoint-hotness-part-3-2007-06-23.pptx
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:07 PM

PowerPoint 2007 hotness: part 2 - org chart

This afternoon a colleague needed help with a org chart and I thought it would be a good opportunity to continue exploiting PowerPoint features. The file is attached here: msdn-saveenr-powerpoint-hotness-part-2-2007-06-20.pptx
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Attachment(s): msdn-saveenr-powerpoint-hotness-part-2-2007-06-20.pptx
Monday, June 18, 2007 12:41 AM

PowerPoint 2007 hotness: part 1

At Microsoft there are three kinds of powerpoint slide decks one typically finds: technical note style - black & white, lots of data, tables, tiny text, usually printed and reviewed as a technical note. It is not projected during the meeting. Any
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Attachment(s): msdn-saveenr-powerpoint-hotness-part-1-2007-06-18.pptx
Sunday, June 03, 2007 2:10 PM

Another demo of PowerPoint 2007 Graphics

As I go through my team's presentations I take available opportunities to replace bitmaps in those slides with the native graphics features in powerpoint . And then I found this slide: At first I doubted that I could replace the bitmap with native powerpoint
Posted by saveenr | 1 Comments

Attachment(s): PowerPoint-Experiment-(2007-06-03).pptx
Saturday, June 02, 2007 10:37 PM

Visual Evolution of the Forefront Client Security Management Console

Continuing from yesterdays's post about the FCS Reports , this evening I offer the management console: Link to the PDF: fcsv1-console-evolution-poster.pdf
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Attachment(s): fcsv1-console-evolution-poster.pdf
Friday, June 01, 2007 8:46 PM

Visual Evolution of Forefront Client Security Reports

As we built Forefront Client Security I would perodically take screenshots of the reports so that one day we could trace back how they evolved. As a glimpse into the inner process of product engineering I offer the following poster: Link to PDF poster:
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Attachment(s): fcsv1-reports-evolution-poster.pdf
 
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