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November 2006 - Posts

I've Been Mini'd

Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:06 PM by jledgard
A few folks have pointed out that my blog was "mini'd". It wasn't bad press so I figured I'd mention it here. Really he just linked to a recent Engineering Excellence talk I gave on the topic of "Cross Group Collaboration". The small bit of Microsoft Read More...
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What if the MSDN Forums where based on Live QnA?

Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 8:26 PM by jledgard
Just indulge my thought experiment here. This is not a commitment or even a direction, but more of a... "brain fart" if you will. What if the MSDN Forum site, instead of forum like, was more live QnA like? What if we just used Live QnA? If you haven't Read More...
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Questions about the Zune… Let’s Fix the Internet

Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:12 PM by jledgard
I’ve been tempted to get one or two Zune’s for the Ledgard family, but there are some questions that I haven’t been able to find answers to on the internet. I don’t have the answers, but with the slew of zune posts around the internet I have a feeling Read More...
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What do you think about CTPs?

Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:28 AM by jledgard
Brian Harry wants to know. We've always had a concern about the quality of the CTPs we release, but are torn between increasing the quality, but reducing the frequency. What we found with the monthly frequency of CTPs as opposed to the classic "wait for Read More...
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Two Cool announcements today from MSFT

Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:43 PM by jledgard
1. Rent HD movies on your Xbox and purchase TV shows . This is something I thought would be really cool, but never thought we'd see. I just hope the library of movies is better than what's on Itunes today. At least the resolution is killer and it seems Read More...
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Creating a simple multi-install package for your customers

Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:46 PM by jledgard
If you've downloaded something like the "Google Pack" in the past and wanted something like that for your companies products. Something that, with a small footprint, lets users pick and choose a suite of components to install, downloads the requested Read More...
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I've been interviewing for two days now

Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:25 PM by jledgard
Late last week I was asked if I would be interested in interviewing Monday and Tuesday in Vancouver. For whatever reason I decided to fly... it's a choice I won't make again. I really don't know why I choose to fly. I was bumped off of one flight and Read More...
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Meebo is a sweet service

Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:08 PM by jledgard
So I wanted to log in quickly to my MSN messenger account and realized the machine I was on didn’t have the client. Rather than install the client I remembered that I had read about www.meebo.com , so I gave it a whirl. I’m not sure what their money making Read More...
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