Today Apple released the new MacBook. Several things to point out: 1. It comes in white and in a black! Cool. I wonder if the white is that cool “ivory” white like the first white iBooks… 2. FireWire is included and therefore not dead. 😉 3. Larger trackpad to deal with larger screen. For me, […]

There was a good comment full of questions on my last post and as I composed a response, it became big enough, I thought I’d better make it a full post. That said, holy loaded questions! At least they didn’t include how to find happiness, fame and fortune! 😉 Seriously, the short answer really is […]

I’ve always been a believer in designing the UI first and then moving in from there. Test Drive Development reinforces this idea; just replace the “UI” with an API. There are several reasons to do this, but I just realized today the last and perhaps the most important reason to nail the UI first, and […]

Similar to Win Office, Mac Office is developed in a number of sites around the world. We have our PowerPoint and Entourage crew in Mountain View, California, then Messenger, Word, Excel and Office Core teams in Redmond. Much of our Japanese work is done in, you guessed it, Tokyo, Japan, while our European localizations are […]

I just read Chris Anderson’s disclaimer and I liked it so much, I’m adopting a similar one for my own. Here it is: The content of this site are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer’s view in anyway. In addition, my thoughts and opinions often change, and as a weblog is […]

So today Microsoft announced that Xbox Live will work not just on Xbox consoles, but on Windows PCs. I am not a gamer, but it’s hard to be blind to how well done the “Live experience” is on the Xbox and the idea that this will come to the Windows OS is just one more […]

For some great info about Mac OS X backup software check out these two articles: The State of Backup and Cloning Tools under Mac OS X Mac Backup Software Harmful Conclusion: Only SuperDuper works 100% Amazing. Since all our OS restores in the Lab are done with ASR and in “block copy” mode, we aren’t […]

As much as I loved the switcher commercials Apple’s new “Get a Mac” ads are just wonderful. Take some time to watch them. Simple. Straight forward. Easy to understand. Sound familiar? Enjoy. Link

One of the nice things about working at Microsoft is the cool speakers that come to visit. I remember a few years ago when a 12 year old prodigy (I don’t remember his name) visited Microsoft to discuss his vision of the tech world and where it was going. After a 1 hour lecture, with slides […]

There have been a lot of comments and questions about what happens to our old Mac Lab Macs. My comment about them being recycled left too much to the imagination. 🙂 For example, Drew Merkle left this comment on my Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab post: Please, please, tell us that when you write “recycled” […]