Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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It' not often that I am impressed by Adobe's install process. But today I was really impressed. You see Photoshop CS2 requires that you activate it. This prevents you from buying one copy and using it on more computers than the license allows.
The neat thing is that when I went to uninstall PhotoShop it asked me if I wanted to de-activate it first. Now that is smart. It will save me a lot of aggravation when I re-install it later and can't activate it because I forgot to deactivate it.
Other programs that need this kind of feature include iTunes and every other product that requires activation.