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.
Powered by: newtelligence dasBlog 2.3.9074.18820
Disclaimer The posts on this weblog are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights. The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.
© Copyright 2010, Omar Shahine
E-mail
As a customer of Microsoft, you'd expect that products the company makes would just work well together... you know, they'd know that each other existed and didn't duplicate functionality unnecessarily.
Having worked at Microsoft for a long time I know this is not the "default" that exists. You see, working well with other products requires that you know what's going on in the company, and most of the time you need to know much more than just casual knowledge about product foo. You probably need to also use the product (dogfood) as well as the products you'd expect things to work with to get that "customer experience" before you ship... so your product doesn't look silly, say when something like Windows Home Server and Windows Live OneCare ship around the same time and they both have a backup feature.
So you can imagine I was pleasantly surprised to see this (dialog asking me if I want to use OneCare backup even though I already have Windows Home Server backing up my machine).
I wasn't expecting this at all, but man, thank you for doing this.
BTW, I think OneCare 2.0 is a definite improvement over previous versions. It found and fixed a bunch of configuration problems on my machine...