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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iTunes 7 = Software that makes me happy. Hats off to Apple for creating a fantastic upgrade to what was becoming a very creaky user experience.
iTunes 7 is soo different from Windows Media Player. Each facet if iTunes is optimized for that specific scenario. Things like finding, downloading and subscribing to Podcasts is fantastic. Flipping through my CDs is finally more fun then it was back in High School when I used to go through my CD collection looking for something to listen to... connecting and managing an iPod is even better than it was before. Bliss.
Torres says it best in his blog:
"You know though, Apple is truly at the top of its game these days. Even more so than a year ago - or 4+ years ago when I bought my first-gen 10GB iPod. As much as I critique their lock-in model, they never cease to wow me with how much they're able to do, and the innovation and quality bar they set for others. I applaud them."
If Apple would just support WMA and get HBO to offer their shows for download I'd be set, I'd never consider any other device or audio software for my desktop/laptop (still need Windows Media Center though). Zune better ship soon so that we can get started on v2 and of course v3. Apple has a massive head start and I'm not sure anyone will ever catch up (or that it matters).
I love this view...