February 2005 - Posts

• Final Fantasy Creator Joins Xbox! :)

  Microsoft Corp. today announced that Hironobu Sakaguchi, video game legend and president of Mistwalker game studio, has joined with Microsoft® Game Studios to develop role-playing game (RPG) video games exclusively for the next-generation Xbox® video Read More... Posted Friday, February 25, 2005 11:54 AM by tjlau | 1 Comments

• the "truth" about marketing at Microsoft

  Dvorak talks about marketing at Microsoft . I must say that quite often I must agree with him. Although there is a gradual (and I mean very slow) shift of power from development to marketing, today development is still king. There are pockets at which Read More... Posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:41 AM by tjlau | 2 Comments

• ms admired according to fortune...

  Considering the amount of perceived dissatisfaction with Microsoft, Fortune still has Microsoft Ranked Among Most Admired Companies . Perhaps it's because I generally hear more about things that go badly than about things that go well. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:12 PM by tjlau | 9 Comments

• SMS stepping up

  Maintaining security continues to be one of the biggest issue affecting customers today. Although we have improved our process for releasing updates in a timely manner, we have not had a good track record of keeping our update deployment tools in sync Read More... Posted Monday, February 14, 2005 4:24 PM by tjlau | 1 Comments