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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Scott Hanselman reports on his new Toshiba M205 Tablet PC. Dam I wish I had one. Unfortunately it will be a while. Microsoft typically swaps out our hardware every 2-3 years. At 3 years the warranties are usually done and they’ve already finished depreciating them. I’ve averaged a new laptop about every 2 years and a new desktop at about the same rate. However, this year I got a lot of new hardware due to my switch over to working on Virtual PC. My current crop of hardware consists of:
Item 1, 2 and 3 were purchased this fiscal year. Item 4 was purchased November 2002. So perhaps in fiscal 05 I’ll get a new laptop, but this new tablet sounds sweet. I Item 5 was my old PC of 3 or so years before I got my new Dell.
It’s not normal for a Microsoft Program Manager to have this much hardware, but in MacBU we average double the machines due to the fact that we have both Macs and PCs. Most MacBU PMs have at least a Mac and PC desktop as well as a Mac and PC laptop. Many of us have two Mac desktops so that we can dogfood more flavors of our software as well as new versions of the Mac OS.