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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Nice overview of Lonestar (aka Tablet PC 2004). Lonestar rules. I've been running it for a while now and it's made my tablet so useful in pen mode. One of my big gripes about the Tablet PC User Experience so far is that Windows XP is just so mouse/keyboard focused and that entering text via Ink was just excruciatingly painfully. I think over time my usage of pen vs keyboard went from 30% to less than 10% as the novelty factor wore off. However, with Lonestar I can do e-mails in Outlook quite efficiently (as well as browse the web etc).
Lonestar is going to be a boon for the Tablet PC and means that we get some much needed usability enhancements before Longhorn!