Microsoft
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Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Privacy
I’ve said this in a few other places: There are potentially important conflicts of interest in Microsoft now owning LinkedIn. A few examples: Microsoft will gain visibility into private profiles and hidden information in public profiles, job listings, applications, etc. for many thousands of competitors and their employees. Microsoft could potentially watch for changes to private profiles of current… Continue reading
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How Many Microsofts?
Catching up on my RSS feeds today, I realized I’d missed Ben Thompson’s Two Microsofts piece a few days ago on stratēchery: On the consumer side, Microsoft hopes to make money from devices and advertising: they sell Surfaces, Lumias, and Xboxes with differentiated OS’s, hardware, and services, and they have ad-supported services like Bing and Outlook. The enterprise… Continue reading
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Brummel Out
Woody Leonhard in InfoWorld: Brummel bails: Another member of the Microsoft old guard to leave. “Lisa Brummel who, rightly or wrongly, was associated in many employees’ minds with the detested stack ranking system, leaves at the end of the year. With 25 years at Microsoft and almost a decade leading the Human Resources organization, she’s… Continue reading
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Changes Afoot: I’m Leaving Microsoft
A couple of weeks ago, I accepted a new job, so I’m leaving Microsoft. I thought I would share the email I sent to my team. Hello friends and colleagues, As a few of you already know, the end of this month will bring to a close my six year adventure with WLDC and Microsoft.… Continue reading
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UI Hall of Shame for January 21, 2008
I finally got sick of clicking Not Now when setting up my Windows Mobile PDA-phone under Vista, and deicded to go ahead and register with the Windows Mobile folks, to put a cease to their nagware. Lo and behold, the message I get after entering my personal info is: “Thank you for providing us with… Continue reading
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What is Windows Live Spaces Anyway?
Is it a blogging tool? A publishing platform? A social networking service? I don’t think it really knows. My guess is that if Spaces were to launch today as a brand new blogging service that no one had ever seen before, it would probably be panned for its confusing user interfaces, for being cluttered with lots of shallow… Continue reading
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Microsoft vs. Google on Gadget Developer Relations
Looks like when it comes to Google, Microsoft has some catching up to do on the Gadget Developer Relations front. Having spent 10+ years working with, or on a super-fun, easily hackable, and powerful 2006==lead developer at UserLand”>Internet scripting platform, there’s one thing I’m certain of from personal experience on both sides of the platform… Continue reading
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Starting at Microsoft
Big news in Jake-land: I’ve accepted a new job as technical program manager at Microsoft, working on the MSN/Windows Live team, and Monday morning I begin my first day of work. It’s been a very productive six years at UserLand, which has seen blogging go from obscurity to commonplace, RSS and XML-based syndication go from… Continue reading