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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WOW! This is awesome news. A few months ago (before I stopped working on the mail team) I jokingly suggested that we ditch "Windows Live Mail" and convince someone to let us call it Windows Live Hotmail. Why? Cause the entire world recognizes the Hotmail brand... for one reason or another.
Anyway, the someone was the key. Doing something like this could be impossible and engulf someone's life for a few months trying.
Anyway, Richard Sim just announced on the mail blog that the new name for the service will in fact be Windows Live Hotmail.
Congrats to the mail team! That's great news.
BTW, recently the mail team released the M9 release. It's great to see the app get faster and all the new features. I love the sorting stuff that Ellie added.
Boy it's weird watching that team from the sidelines . M9 is the 2nd milestone I haven't directly worked on :-(.