Archive for the ‘Supporting Documentation’ Category

Windows Live Wave 3 Planning Memo (August 2007) — Part 2

Monday, April 28th, 2008

When Microsoft began rolling out its primarily consumer-focused Windows Live service line-up, there seemed to be little rhyme or reason to the company’s plans. Enter Chris Jones, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Experience. In 2007, Jones, along with colleagues David Treadwell, Corporate Vice President of Live Platform Services, and ...

Windows Live Wave 3 Planning Memo (August 2007) — Part 1

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

When Microsoft began rolling out its primarily consumer-focused Windows Live service line-up, there seemed to be little rhyme or reason to the company's plans. Enter Chris Jones, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Experience. In 2007, Jones, along with colleagues David Treadwell, Corporate Vice President of Live Platform Services, and ...

Translucency vs. Transparency Blog Post

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

When long-time Windows chief Jim Allchin passed the Windows-development torch to Microsoft veteran Steven Sinofsky in late 2006, many things changed. One of the biggest was Microsoft's policy on "transparency." Following a couple of service pack code and information leaks in July 2007, Sinofsky wrote a post on his internal blog ...

Think Week Paper: Edge Computing Network

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Twice a year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was known for going off on sequestered "Think Weeks" to read papers submitted by Microsoft employees with ideas for new products and technologies which they believed Microsoft should be considering, going forward. In the early Microsoft days, these papers were secret. But in the ...