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'm now running Vista SP1 everywhere. The best thing about Vista SP1 is that there is a bug fix to Windows Imaging Component (WIC) that addresses an issue with photos on network drives. Under Vista meta data changes to files (like keywords and ratings) would take 30 seconds to 1 minute to get written per file.
This was incredibly annoying for me since I store > 20 GB of photos on a Windows File Server and utilize numerous Vista computers to manage that library. With Vista it was unusable to manage meta data.
I'm extremely happy that the Vista folks took this bug fix for SP1. It now means I can use Windows Live Photo Gallery to manage my keywords and ratings again.