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 […]
There is talk all over the internet and on capital hill about this “net neutrality” and what it is, and why it’s important. I’ve heard several people try to define it, but Tim Berners-Lee, arguably the inventor of the Web, I think has said it best: Net neutrality is this: If I pay to connect […]
Brian Jones has a follow up post about the whole no default PDF support in Office debacle. It’s an interesting read that also points to the official statements of both Microsoft and Adobe regarding the issue. It seems like Adobe isn’t as concerned about financial implications of PDF creation loss as it is about losing […]
Here’s a fun comparison: Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines Windows XP – Guidelines for Applications Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines Apple Human Interface Guidelines Read them if you’d like, but for now, just consider the main page of each guide. Who do you think will be most successful at getting their developers to really […]
Today Bill announced that 2 years from today, July 2008, he will reorder personal priorities and work part time at Microsoft and full-time at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ray Ozzie will become the new Chief Software Architect. Craig Mundie will become Chief Research and Strategy Officer. I must admit that I’m impressed by […]
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 […]
I think from time to time, everyone has to deal with politics. Depending on your organization or team your milage may vary, but where there are people interacting, trying to get results, chances are you’ll encounter some team politics. I recently finished reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. It was a […]
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. […]
David Weiss 