Webcast on Entourage and Exchange

I’ve followed the Mac enterprise space for years now and I have always enjoyed watching the webcasts at MacEnterprise.org (formerly macosxlabs.org) The next webcast scheduled for tomorrow, June 20th 2006, will be “an overview of cross-platform collaboration with Entourage’s Exchange connectivity” One of the MacBU bloggers, Andy Ruff will help out with the presentation and […]

$100 Office

If you buy the Student and Teacher Edition of Mac Office any time between June 13 and September 12, 2006 you get $50 off via a rebate coupon located here. This is the lowest price I’ve ever seen for Mac Office! Just thought you ought to know.

Shipping is a Habit

A while ago some friends and I took advantage of a spring day and went off road exploring. I took some pictures of some of the terrain. This picture above of the Jeep axle deep in mud reminded me a bit how things feel these days at work. It’s just part of the cycle. I’ve […]

Our Greatest Advantage

Recently Schwieb wrote about what we are doing with Messenger on the Mac. In his post he makes this significant comparison: The MacBU is a medium-sized group at Microsoft (at least from my perspective) but compared to either the Win Office team or the various incarnations of the Messenger app on the Windows platform, we’re […]

Fixing Millions of Errors and Warnings

Erik Schwiebert, one of our Dev leads here at MacBU has begun to blog. We sometimes develop nick names for folks, often because of duplication of first names, and I believe Erik fell in to this category sometime ago. He’s pseudonym became Schwieb and as you can see by his blog URL, the name stuck. […]

A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab

Today I’ll stop my 3rd person perspective. I’m going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what’s it’s like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events or special visits from our MVPs I’ll give them […]