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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This is really cool and something a lot of folks at Microsoft has been working a long time on, but yesterday Penn announced that they have selected Windows Live @ edu for their students and alumni over Google.
ArsTechnica has some commentary.
One of the cooler thinks about our service is that with a little bit of technology and a lot of great work by the folks who manage the Windows Live @ edu program we're able to offer a pretty great set of services to any educational institution out there.
Winning over Penn was the most challenging of the Schools because they pretty much put the students in charge of deciding the relative merits of the different service offerings. There are a lot of schools already signed up for WL @ edu but Penn is the first Ivy League. As you can imagine, the others schools pay attention to who is picking who (us vs goog).