About Chris Pratley

These days I am working on Microsoft Office Labs (http://officelabs.com), a new site designed to test out ideas with the public to see what there is to see... For 2007 Office I was the Group Program Manager for Office "Authoring Services". That means I managed the program management teams that designed Word, Publisher, and OneNote (the "authoring" applications). I co-founded the OneNote team back in early 2001 and have been part of it ever since. At the same time I was a part of the Word team since 1995, starting on Japanese Word95 and growing to be the manager for the whole Word program management team. Before I joined Microsoft in 1994 I lived in Japan for several years working for Seiko-Epson Corp on color inkjet printers and had a great time learning Japanese language and culture. I met my wife Seiko there as well, and we have two sons; Ciarán who is 5, and Skye, 3. I am originally from Montréal, Canada and I have a Systems Design Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.

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