Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, mostly in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC. I am currently a Senior Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Hotmail Frontdoor team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for the User Interface of Hotmail as well as some of the Infrastructure and Architecture. 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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For the past few months some of my former co-workers were working on a release of Entourage that integrates with Apple’s Spotlight and SyncServices.
Just to put things into perspective. Oh, about 3 years ago we tried to get support for iSync in, but there was no API and well, I guess SyncServices was the answer (but it didn’t appear till the last OS update).
Anyhoo, I have to say, the reason I’m writing this is because of what the folks at TidBits just published (yes I still read and subscribe to TidBits) an article with glowing praise for this update. It says such things as:
“One's overall impression, in short, is that the Microsoft folks have done this exactly right, and despite the extra hard disk space that the implementation requires, we're not at all sorry to have the contents of the Entourage database (which is in a proprietary and always at-risk format) reproduced in a form that any text processor can retrieve.” “Overall, this seems on first meeting to be an extremely well conceived and implemented update. Entourage has suddenly become a far better Mac OS X citizen.” “Nevertheless, it's no exaggeration to say that a great weight has been lifted from the minds of Entourage users. To the Microsoft team that brought us this update: bravo.” [Microsoft Entourage Gets Spotlight and Sync]
“One's overall impression, in short, is that the Microsoft folks have done this exactly right, and despite the extra hard disk space that the implementation requires, we're not at all sorry to have the contents of the Entourage database (which is in a proprietary and always at-risk format) reproduced in a form that any text processor can retrieve.”
“Overall, this seems on first meeting to be an extremely well conceived and implemented update. Entourage has suddenly become a far better Mac OS X citizen.”
“Nevertheless, it's no exaggeration to say that a great weight has been lifted from the minds of Entourage users. To the Microsoft team that brought us this update: bravo.”
[Microsoft Entourage Gets Spotlight and Sync]
Seriously, coming from TidBits, this is about the best you can do .
So congratulations to the Entourage Team!
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