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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Like Dare, I didn't really see the value in this thing when I first heard about it.... not even later when I first tried it, but I have to admit, it's a nice installer.
I was curious how the installer talks to the web page about what to install and Long Zheng documents the magic. Pretty clever.
I'm loving the new Windows Live Photo Gallery (that my fam can now run on XP and Vista) allowing me to put Digital Image Suite out to pasture... since it never did anything correct with meta data and Gallery supports XMP and the like. It also means my Mom can finally ditch the MSN Client in favor of Windows Live Mail with PhotoMail (the killer feature IMHO).
Simplification of my life is a good thing, even if it's mainly simplification of my family IT support workload.