10 Years at Microsoft

This past week marked my ten year anniversary at Microsoft.  I never would have guessed that answering the call to join the Mac Internet Explorer team would have led to the long adventure my time at Microsoft has been.  Heck, I came in as a Mac guy and now I’m a PC.  What’s even more [...]

Microsoft, Innovation and Products

Dick Brass, a former Microsoft executive, published an opinion piece in today’s New York Times which has gotten a lot of buzz on the web.  Microsoft’s CVP of Corporate communications responded on the Official Microsoft Blog so I’ll let that speak for the official response from the company.  What follows is my personal take on [...]

iPhone 3.0 vs. Windows Mobile 6.1 for Exchange users

I started this post a few months ago but I decided to give Apple another chance with iPhone OS 3.0.  Now that 3.0 is out and I’ve had a chance to use it for a while, I still conclude that the iPhone doesn’t quite cut it for hardcore Exchange users who don’t want to carry [...]

800 messages processed per day

Over the past few days I’ve held off on emptying my deleted items folder in Outlook to get a better sense of the number of messages I “process” per day.  The average over the past three days with very little varyance per day was 800 per day.  Granted this does include RSS feed posts I [...]

Trends I am watching

Prefab green building
The rise in the “undeclared / independent” policial party
The mobile phone as THE device (phone, email/text, video camera, music/video player, still camera, wallet, display/projector, gps, computer)
IP everything
Boxed wine
More content in smaller chunks
China

Tribal Workers – Am I one?

Those two people who follow my blog have probably given up on following it since I haven’t posted in ages.  The caltrain love poem didn’t happen and instead I’ve been having a very time consuming relationship with my work now that I am responsible for the applications, user experience and server components (metadata mostly) for [...]

Habitat for Humanity rekindles my childhood enjoyment of hammering nails

I know, this sounds weird, but I forgot how much fun it was to hammer nails until yesterday.  A group of managers from my team did a full day volunteer project at Habitat for Humanity in Daly City.  This was my first H4H experience and I found it to be physically and mentally rewarding, not [...]

So, what is it that I do?

I have had three people ask me to explain what it is that I do at Microsoft as a Lead Program Manager.  I’ll eventually get around to expanding this post more, but until then, here are some good links:

http://blogs.msdn.com/techtalk/archive/2005/08/08/449231.aspx
The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun

Record High Temperature in San Francisco (and I’m in Philly)

Most San Franciscans know that there are about five drop everything and have fun outside days per year.  Without fail, I’m out of town for most of them.  I think I’m going to start sharing my travel plans with weather forecasters.


In related news, it was a cold and dreary in Philadelphia and the red-eye flight [...]

Business Week: Microsoft May Be a TV Star Yet

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_06/b3919124_mz063.htm


BillG Q&A: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_06/b3919127_mz063.htm 


Yup, that’s the group I work in.