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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Jimmy Grewal (my former roomate) and I met the day he was interviewing for a Program Manager role on Mac IE 5. We were roomates for over 2 years and he is one of my dearest friends. He moved back to Dubai and left Microsoft a few years ago, long after MacIE was "dead". He has a great post covering the slashdot article and I highly recommend reading it if you are at all interested in some of the politics around MacIE and the Apple/Microsoft relationship. You don't get this kind of information often (usually in books).
I really cherish the years I spent working on MacOE 5 while he worked on MacIE 5. What kind of a company gives two 22 year old kids the opportunity to lead the effort for two products they are incredibly passionate about? It's one of the reasons I love Microsoft so dearly. We were empowered to build the best email and web browser for the Mac, and both products turned into best of class software applications. Those were amazingly fun times. It's sort of how I feel about working on Hotmail Windows Live Mail, except the challenge is bigger and Jimmy is not around :-(.