Listen Up Search Engines- I Want “Opt-Out” for Relevance

I noticed today that the search terms synchronize blackberry yahoo calendar were bringing users to this site. I laughed, because this is clearly NOT the site that you’d want to visit if you want to use a Blackberry to synchronize a Yahoo calendaring service. First, I don’t even own a Blackberry (Windows Mobile rocks!). Second, [...]

Great Design

Joel Spolsky: “Design, for my purposes, is about making tradeoffs.”

CTP vs. Beta and Windows Vista

Mary Jo says that Microsoft is not going to be releasing a Vista “Beta 2″ but rather a series of CTP (Community Technology Preview) releases. I expect to see this become the trend across all products over time.

Another blogger dinner with Jim Allchin

It is very cool that Jim Allchin had another dinner with bloggers to discuss Microsoft’s direction. The last one was early in 2005.
These dinners sound great, but I think it would be cooler to do it outside of San Francisco. How about tech bloggers on the East Coast or the Midwest? I can think of at [...]

Fun with RFID

Here’s a fun (and scary) commentary on RFID.

Google in China- Striking a Nerve

Google has really struck a nerve with the news of their censorship in China. I’m not bashing them or in any way commenting on Microsoft’s approach to doing business with China. I am however a bit surprised at how quickly Google has become “evil” in the minds of so many.

Lisa Brummel on Channel 9

Our Sr. VP of HR, Lisa Brummel, had an interesting conversation with Channel 9. This definitely makes me feel good about where I work.

Live Labs

Ray Ozzie talks a bit about Live Labs. I’ve seen some complaints about the branding but I think the idea is useful and interesting. Let’s get our users a little more visibility to the things we’re doing and if we can ship a little more often then that’s cool too.

Windows Server 2003 R2 and UNIX

Windows Server Blog: “One of the many cool technologies in R2 is the Unix/Windows interop capabilities, such as authenticating users across platforms and file sharing across multiple OSes.  The server for NFS is used when a Unix network requires access to shared files and folders on a Windows Server. Unix already has the NFS protocol [...]

Deploying Vista

For all of the early adopter types in the enterprise, Microsoft’s TechNet has posted a set of articles on Deploying Windows Vista.