About a week ago, Microsoft announced the SKU (editions/versions) list for Windows 7. There will be six SKUs of Windows 7. It sounds complex and probably will be perceived that way in general but they claim to be focused on marketing two middle SKUs (“Home Premium” and “Professional”) with the remaining four SKUs directed at [...]
Quick update: Ever have trouble finding obscure menu commands in the new Office 2007 Ribbon? My partner David just showed me an excellent little add-on for the Office Ribbon that comes from the Microsoft Office Labs team.
Office Ribbon Search: http://www.officelabs.com/projects/searchcommands/Pages/default.aspx
This adds an extra tab with a search box into the ribbon bar for Word, [...]
At least once a year I personally revisit some brilliant software development best practices outlined by Jim McCarthy at Microsoft in the mid ’90s. Not long after it was released in its original format as an internal presentation, Jim published a version in the book Dynamics of Software Development and left Microsoft to establish a [...]
