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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I while ago I complained about how Remote Assistance is an awesome feature in Windows XP, but that I wished for a way to offer some one remote assistance. You see, every time I need to use Remote Assistance to fix something on my parents computer, I often spend 5 minutes explaining to them (again) how to go into Messenger and invite me to fix their computer. It's PAINFUL. Anyway, I wrote about this, and was messing around with Vista today and found a new menu item in the Actions menu called Offer Remote Assistance.
THANK YOU WHOEVER DID THIS!
You've saved me countless minutes!
Update: here is how you access this feature.