This is a problem that has confounded and caused no end of trouble to me and several friends/colleagues. Now that I seem to have found a fairly reliable solution, I wanted to highlight it here. Problem Symptom: Vista fails to find drivers for devices - typically USB devices. Often these ...

Mike tells me that this is what he translates every time he finds a new translation service. So, I decided that I would run it through the new translator service that went into silent beta recently. German: Alle ur Übersetzung sind gehören uns Arabic: كلّ [أور] ترجمة ينتسب إلى نا French: Toute la ...

Sometimes some products need little introduction or explanation. They easily capture your imagination and make you say - "I want one!" Here is one such truly cool product from Microsoft: Microsoft Surface.  Lately there has been a TON of news around touch computing TED Multitouch demo, iPhone and so forth. I ...

There was a period in time, between working with Microsoft Research at Caltech and working for Microsoft now, when I worked on all sorts of non-microsoft things. We were building a new open source media experience for unix and linux (and it's community) and I was having a ton of fun ...