The Cranky PM has gotten herself into a big snit over a Business Week article about a day in the life of a “Product Manager” at Microsoft. Among other things, [ … ]
Category: Microsoft
Goodbye File menu, hello throbbing Orb
We recently upgraded from Microsoft Office 2003 to Microsoft Office 2007 at work. Clearly Microsoft has put a lot of effort into upgrading the UI in the various components of [ … ]
Honey, I bought the Phone. Confessions from the Cambridge Apple Store.
I have a perfectly good Blackberry 8200 series, but I’ve been waiting for a chance to hit the Apple store to check out the iPhone. If you’ve been reading our [ … ]
Why I hate PowerPoint
I hate PowerPoint. I hate what it has done to modern meetings, and I hate the fact that it is expected that one will produce slides for each meeting. Am I being a little strong here? Maybe the verb should be lament. Yes, I lament the dominance of PowerPoint in today’s meetings.
Your next computer will be a big-ass table: Microsoft Surface, Mocked.
Saeed blogged about Surface. The trouble is, his post wasn’t hilarious. But check this one out!
Safari for Windows: Shock and Yawn
By now it is all over the web: Yesterday, Apple has released it’s web browser, Safari, for Windows. When I first heard the news by live feed to the keynote [ … ]
Change is a process, not an event…
As Ethan wrote, I have this line that I’ve been using for many years: Change is a process, not an event. I don’t remember where I heard it first or [ … ]
Microsoft Surface, and user needs beyond the interface
This past week, Microsoft unveiled Surface, which according to MS is “a fundamental change in the way we interact with digital content“. The last time I recall Microsoft making such [ … ]