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Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:10 AM

Ship It, Ship It Good

Hello everyone, I thought this would be good time to jump in and introduce myself. I’m the Director of Marketing and Planning for MacBU – a longtime ‘softie and closing in on my first anniversary in the Macintosh Business Unit. Like most of us in MacBU,
Posted by Pat Fox | 37 Comments
Friday, November 02, 2007 1:13 AM

Longest remote home folder test … 600 miles…

Sorry it’s been so long since my last post, but I’ve been quite busy fixing bugs which are either old, new, borrowed and quite far away. In fact some are so far away it takes driving all the way to Burbank, CA to verify the fix. I’ve spent a good number
Posted by ExCntx | 18 Comments
Friday, September 28, 2007 10:00 AM

Here's to the Crazy Ones

As many of you know, MacBU celebrated our own 10 year anniversary earlier this year. As you may also be aware, we're also celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Apple "Think Different" advertising campaign which debuted September 28, 1997.
Posted by blairn | 23 Comments
Friday, July 06, 2007 10:46 AM

Wait, wait, I'm here

My first blog post, while written by yours truly, wasn't posted by yours truly - my marketing team created an account for me and posted the blog entry so we could make sure it happened in a timely way during the frenzy of my first day. With the initial
Posted by CraigE | 83 Comments
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:53 AM

power to the programmers

title of this post comes from the WWDC t-shirts
Posted by nadyne | 33 Comments
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Friday, June 08, 2007 5:08 PM

Hello from the new General Manager of the Macintosh Business Unit - Craig Eisler

Hi folks, Wow! I can’t believe I’m actually here - General Manager of Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit. I would not have guessed this is where I would’ve landed when I rejoined Microsoft. But after looking at several great options over the course of
Posted by CraigE | 79 Comments
Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:47 PM

ship it!

Software is never really done. Feature creep always lurks, waiting to trap the unwary team.
Posted by nadyne | 38 Comments
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:11 AM

Birthday Gift for MacBU

Yesterday, as I walked from the dark parking garage to begin my day of work, I remembered that we were celebrating MacBU's 10th anniversary! The clouds were thinning and I looked around to see if perchance, the cloudy weather would abate, even a little
Posted by David Weiss | 85 Comments
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:30 PM

Confessions of a Mac Switcher at Microsoft

Hi. My name is Blair and I'm a switcher. I guess it all started around OS X. I'd been working in a Linux shop for a little while. On DOS and Windows before that. I was already hooked on the command line, but couldn't find a windowing environment that
Posted by blairn | 21 Comments
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:29 AM

Introducing a “certain je-ne-sais-quoi”

A new year, a new blogger! Today’s post is all about me! I’m taking the plunge in the Mojo so let me introduce myself! I’m Eric Paquin, International Project Manager and totally new to the art of blogging (please be patient)! So, what can I bring to the
Posted by eric.paquin | 28 Comments
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:26 PM

A day in the life, usability edition

A few weeks ago, Brad told us what a day in his life is like . Inspired by Brad, here's a day in the life of a user experience researcher. My days are highly variable, depending on whether I'm doing a usability study or not, so I'm not sure if this description
Posted by nadyne | 12 Comments
Friday, November 10, 2006 12:16 PM

Living complexity

Brad's Carl Sagan-style post on code size stirs up some familiar questions about complexity management here at MacBU. With every release of Office, we remove, rewrite and add new code. Often we can remove significant amounts of code without losing functionality
Posted by Geoff Price | 14 Comments
Friday, November 03, 2006 12:09 AM

It's all in the numbers ...

A friend of mine and I were shooting the ... breeze (freaking ‘G' ratings for blogs) and he was asking me when the next version of Office was coming out. Now being the wise Microsoft spin doctor that I am, and having spent numerous hours being brainwashed
Posted by ExCntx | 54 Comments
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:45 PM

A day in my life at the macbu ...

Fair warning, this is not a description of a typical programmer’s day. I am not a typical programmer, in fact my wife constantly reminds me that my sanity is also questionable, but I do love my job and I live quite far from it … oh and I don’t have any
Posted by ExCntx | 9 Comments
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Monday, October 16, 2006 11:31 AM

trash talkin'

Charity and cheesecake come together in the annual MacBU bake auction.
Posted by nadyne | 6 Comments
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