Office team shares the love: 2010 beta available
Yesterday we released the public beta of Office 2010, you should go download it right now. There’s a bunch of new stuff, so it’s really hard to predict what’s going to be…
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Microspotting – A peek behind the Microsoft curtain
Have you ever wondered what kind of people work at MS and what makes them tick? Hop on over to Microspotting to get the dirt. While you're there you can also really…
So, you want to live and work in Europe?
Why not join us? Earlier this week we launched a microsite for our team here in Dublin. The new site is chock full of informational goodness. The new site was built under the watchful…
Where does Reeves work?
I gave you a rough idea of what I do... but here's a little information about where I do it. A week back I went searching for a picture of my MS…
Ten years!
Well... my ten year anniversary with Microsoft was actually back in November of 2006, but due to my move to Ireland the award was slightly delayed. After a long journey it's resting…
The beta tag comes off Windows Live Hotmail
It was a long road, lots of research, lots of development, a private beta and two years of public beta... and now Windows Live Hotmail is officially out of beta. I want…
My new favorite Vista feature
I suppose I should start by telling you what my old favorite feature was... I'm not sure what it's called but it allows you to navigate up and down folders much more…
So… what does Reeves do?
I've moved to Ireland... Hotmail is in Mountain View, California. The observant reader may put 2 & 2 together and think: "Hotmail has moved to Ireland!" Fortunately most people who read this…
How to change jobs… and how not to
While flying home to Dublin from Redmond I was doing a little blog reading (hooray for SAS and airborne broadband) when I came across an interesting post on Dare's blog regarding the…
Presence buttons are cool… why can’t messenger have these?
Way back in the day ICQ allowed people to put a little snippet of HTML anywhere they liked and it would show their presence. That was very cool. Yahoo can do it…
PC Hardware makers, you’ve been put on notice
It has been a long time since the PC world migrated away from churning out beige boxes, but major manufacturers have been slow to adopt industrial design standards which can keep up…
See, this proves it, we’re not evil
"Microsoft is not even a bad guy... you know... they want to be even more like Apple." - Steve Wozniak (from This Week in Tech, 3/5/2006)
Microsoft (and Hotmail specifically) had no hand in indictment of Chinese Journalist
According to Reuters, a Chinese Journalist, Li Yuanlong was charged with Subversion for sending e-mails via a Hotmail account. The indictment did not come, however, with help from Microsoft. The wife of…
Hello? Steve? Cancel the Joe Isuzu ad campaign.
CNN: the most trusted name in news? Must be on the web, because television is loosing ground to the Internet as a trusted source for information. From that I segue gracefully into...…
Patience
I just posted to the team blog about upcoming improvements to the Windows Live Mail beta. The languages we were hoping to roll out back in December should be coming out very…
Windows Live Mail supports more browsers
Ellie has written a great post on the Windows Live Mail team blog about the yeoman's work that has gone into the product to support older browsers. Ellie worked with a team…