Vikram’s “Muse”

“And this one thing is what gives the confidence, however out of place this confidence might seem, to be absolutely unworried about the permanence of this bond. How can you somehow lose your reflection?” - Vikram

Robert moves on to the next adventure

The blog world is abuzz with news on my friend Robert leaving Microsoft. Robert is one of the key people who got me to come to Microsoft. Hearing about my conversations with Google, Robert architected one of the most rapidly scheduled meetings that I have been party to with the ...

Blogging from Word 2007 Beta

A surprise feature inclusion in Word – and a very cool one at that. I couldn’t help but blog about it. I could easily configure it to accept wordpress as the provider and I am told that metaweblog pictures support will be included in future builds. Joe, congratulations on a ...

Ballmer on Sharepoint

US News Article | Reuters.com Ballmer in India, speaking about sharepoint. Separately, Ballmer said he expected $400 million in revenue from SharePoint, its real-time information product, though he did not specify the timeframe. "SharePoint is the number one product at this point in the history of Microsoft," he said in a presentation to ...

January 24th 2008
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Troubleshooting driver problems in Vista

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 ...
November 26th 2007
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Forever Star

As someone said on TV recently, "I don't want to give an eulogy because that would be acknowledging that he is gone" - I have been trying to block out this reality for a little while now. The last email I got from the man who I have often ...
September 18th 2007
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All ur Translation are belong to Us

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 ...
June 2nd 2007
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Business Models for India - Recycling

There are two kinds of disappointments to those with an entrepreneurial bent. One - the "in retrospect" kind and another - the "ideated but un-executed" kind. The first kind is where you look at something that just happened and say "that is so obvious", and the second kind is where ...
May 30th 2007
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Surface is here!

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 ...