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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One of the reasons I love Lenovo is the fact that they blog. Not only do they blog, they make great laptops. And not only that but they come up with innovative solutions to problems that seemingly get no attention from any other OEMs. A few weeks ago I wrote about how they create a nice single application for downloading and installing all the drivers and such that a laptop needs to function. They also break things out by Critical/Recommended/Optional etc. Finally, the craplets that they do produce look like they are part of the Operating System, not some tumor that is just festering on your machine...
Well, their latest post about what the Thinkpad has in common with the Owl is a testament to what I've said above. They are looking at innovative solutions to a problem I hate... noise and heat on laptops. Kudos to them for doing this and letting us know.
Another plus is that Lenovo was recently rated as the Greenest of the laptop makers. I like that.
I wonder if other laptop makers will take notice and start to blog? To me the fact that Lenovo does such a good job blogging about their products is a reflection of how proud they are of their work and their desire to own their story.