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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How do I know that a product is getting the proper amount of care and feeding?
When they fix and implement the little touches that make a difference.
I've been using IE 8 for a few weeks now and noticed that something that has always bothered stopped bothering me.
What is this feature?
The search box in the upper right corner now updates based on the searches that you do in Google, Live Search etc.
Let's day I fire up the web browser and hit control-E (the shortcut to take you to the search box).
I then type "Ryovac AAA" and get some results. However, I now want to refine my results by clarifying the search a bit.
So in the search page I type "Ryovac AAA Hybrid" and hit search. Now I open a new tab and want to issue that same search so I can browse a different page. Uh oh, the IE search box says "Ryovac AAA".
Well in IE 8 it says "Ryovac AAA Hybrid".
Thanks IE Team!
This feature is actually more useful when you are searching some error message you are getting on your PC and you are constantly refining the search over time and have like 5 different tabs open as you continue your research.
To me this feature is just like the one where IE finally started matching text in menus the way it's supposed to. This feature has saved me countless frustrating minutes.