One of the cool things about working at Microsoft is the constant stream of interesting guest speakers. Recently it was Steve Wozniak. It was facinating to listen to him speak about his love for technology. I had my trusty MacBook Pro and took down some notes and fun quotes. On chip design: “I played a […]
Today marks the official beginning of sprint number 2 for the Automation Team. Last month was our first attempt at a modified Scrum. I mention “modified Scrum” simply because of the cruel fact that I don’t know everything there is to know about the Scrum Methodology. We just kind of picked out what made immediate […]
Note: This is a re-post of my 1st post on our Official MacBU Blog, Mac Mojo. If you haven’t added Mac Mojo to your blogs to read, I’d recommend it. I’ll be posting over there along with about 10 or so other folk in MacBU. Check it out, I think you’ll enjoy it. — Hello! […]
From David Heinemeier You don’t have to work hard to work well. You don’t need sinister eyebrows or only 4-hour sleeps or a booked calendar to be serious. But somehow that image sticks so bad that we tend to view fun as the opposite of Serious Business Stuff(TM). It’s a false choice, not a real […]
I just got the most cordial email asking the most simple question: “What is MacBU?” Anyone who has spent any time at Microsoft knows the penchant demand for acronyms and jargon, it’s so prevalent that at one point someone created an internal glossary just so people could keep up with the alphabet soup. That project […]
I’ve been super busy here at WWDC 2006, but it’s that good kind of busy. Lots of new technology to learn and understand. It’s been great! I did take some time yesterday to review some of the feedback online about our announcement to ship the next version of Mac Office without support for VB. This […]
I’ve written before about our ExCodeWarrior dev shirts we got as reward for successfully moving our code from CodeWarrior to Xcode. Well, now you too, can pay your respects to CodeWarrior, in mournful black, as well as honor the great work the Xcode team has done, and all this in time for WWDC 2006! I’ll […]
Recently John Gruber wrote about the The Mac OS X Tipping Point and finished with this sumation: You can’t appeal to all people all the time, but Mac OS X comes remarkably close. The old Mac OS, as insanely great as it was, did not. I think what is so quickly forgotten about the transition […]
This has got to be my all time favorite comment from the press: “The autonomy of this relatively small division allows Microsoft programmers to cut loose and design the best software they can imagine… Microsoft’s Mac offerings are routinely credited as being more innovative, elegant and robust than its mainline PC products” – Terril Yue […]
A while back I posted about our new release of the Office Resource Kit for enterprise admins. We have setup two methods for you to give feedback on what you’d like to see in the next version: 1. An online survey – It will be active until the end of July 2006 2. An email […]
David Weiss 