July 2007 - Posts

Dragon founder moves to new job
Jim Baker, who along with wife Janet started Dragon Naturally Speaking ten years ago, is moving to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University to direct a new center focused on language technology used by the Defense Department. The goal of the project, nicely Read More...
Posted 29 July 07 01:52 by sprague | 3 Comments   
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Transcribing conversations
Karen asked me: Hi Richard. I am fairly new to blogging but enjoyed yours on FaceTalk. Question for you: I am organizing a customer advisory council with about 10 customers in the same room and want to be able to record the conversation; and have it transcribed. Read More...
Posted 26 July 07 03:32 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Join me on Facebook
I've been on Facebook for a couple of years as a Stanford alumnus, but lately it really seems to be taking off and lots of my friends are showing up there, including many Microsoft colleagues. I like Facebook, particularly relative to other social networking Read More...
Posted 25 July 07 09:52 by sprague | 0 Comments   
More Vista than Mac OS X
That didn't take long: there are now more computers running Vista than OS X . Of course that was only a matter of time, since virtually every new PC these days comes with Vista pre-installed. Something like 50M+ units since Vista shipped. Read More...
Posted 25 July 07 06:51 by sprague | 0 Comments   
VOIP as you are
The UC team has a funny introduction to their "VOIP As You Are" ad campaign for the upcoming release of Office Communications Server. The Beta for both the server and client are available for download now. You get a different intro each time you click, Read More...
Posted 23 July 07 09:22 by sprague | 0 Comments   
America Calling
My new job involves understanding the phone business, so JJ suggested I read the book America Calling by Claude Fischer, a social history of the telephone from its invention to 1940. I found myself trying to explain instant messaging the other day to Read More...
Posted 18 July 07 03:47 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Orlando training event
I'm in Orlando today on a very fast trip to help the MS Connections team get up to speed on Response Point. It's not that hard to set up a Response Point system, so even though I'm only a few weeks into my new job, I'm able to talk about it with some Read More...
Posted 17 July 07 02:45 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Using Pairup before a business trip
Speaking of business trips , another reason I wish I was going next week is to try out the new PairUp business travel system. Ever find yourself going someplace on a plane surrounded by other travelers who are going to the same location? It's only after Read More...
Posted 05 July 07 05:34 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Partner Conference next week
I joined my new team too late to get reservations to the Microsoft Partner Conference in Denver next week, but it's going to be a huge event for us, since something like 10,000 Microsoft partners will be gathering there for three days of keynotes, sessions, Read More...
Posted 05 July 07 05:19 by sprague | 2 Comments   
Language Dev Center in the news
Miguel Dias, director of the Language Development Center we set up in Lisbon a few years ago is featured in this month's Microsoft Magazine (in Portuguese), along with a case study from Norberto Pires . Read More...
Posted 04 July 07 09:36 by sprague | 0 Comments   
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