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

And finally - The Mac Tablet

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 ...

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If there was one place in Microsoft that differentiates it as a great place work - it would be the research lab at Microsoft. From the days when I worked with MSR at Caltech, I have always been very fond of the people there and very proud of the technologies being built. So, here ...

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If there was one place in Microsoft that differentiates it as a great place work - it would be the research lab at Microsoft. From the days when I worked with MSR at Caltech, I have always been very fond of the people there and very proud of the technologies being built. So, here ...

Virtual Earth 3D (SpaceLand) goes live

This took a while coming but is certainly worth the wait. From the time when I saw some of the flight simulator hotshots come into the Mappoint building, mingle with the researcher superstars and stay up late night with the web & graphics junkies - I knew this would be ...

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 ...