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 have fallen in love with Amazon.com's new MP3 download service. Here are the facts:
Before this service I was still firmly a "CD only" purchaser. DRM was too restrictive. For example, how would my wife and I share music on our iPods? Our current solution was to use my iTunes accounts on my machine, her machine etc. But this got to be a pain in the butt.
Another thing that rocks? Amazon customer service. I had a problem with a credit card on file due to some one-click thing. So I clicked on the help link, and then clicked "call me", entered my phone number and within 3 seconds I was talking to a live human being who already had all my account info. It was actually kinda funny because I was buying my wife the new Fergie Album she asked for and the customer service lady was like "So you're trying to get your fergie"?... awkward!
Anyway, lets see how this stacks up to iTunes:
Sold!