Introduction
This is my first post to my first blog. I'm trying this out to get a sense of what blogging is like. I'm not naturally someone who writes a diary or otherwise feels the need to communicate except when there's a question or a problem to solve or someone to speak to, so we'll see if I can keep this up. I'm sure if people start contacting me or referring to this blog, that'll keep me going.
A little background on me. I am the Group Program Manager at Microsoft for what we call (this year) Office Authoring Services. That is an umbrella term that covers Word, Publisher, and our newest application: OneNote. As I write this, I can say categorically that I'd prefer to edit text in those three apps any day compared to this troglodytic editing experience in the blogging tool. Maybe that'll happen. I live in Seattle, and have been at Microsoft for 10 years, first on Excel, then 9 years on Word. I started the OneNote effort in late 2000, and have come to manage the design team of program managers for Publisher only recently.
Ok, for this third paragraph I have given up on the blogging tool and have moved to Word where I can remain sane while typing (I’m a heavy autocorrect and background spelling user since I never learned to touch-type. Bam! Now you know a little secret about me)
I think I’ll use this blog to muse about OneNote in particular. It’s new, and seems to have a few fans who are vocal about ways OneNote could go in the future. It’s also the kind of application we can rapidly evolve since it doesn’t have a huge user base yet.
So, that’s it for now. If anyone wants to say hi, please do.
Comments
- Anonymous
January 29, 2004
Welcome to the world of blogging, oh boss of mine. This should be interesting given the conversations we've had. I'm looking forward to it. - Anonymous
January 29, 2004
Hey Chris, congrats on making the jump!
Recently, on my blog, someone gave me a heap of "feedback" on OneNote and asked me to pass it onto the product team. If you are interested in taking a look, please see: http://weblogs.asp.net/cameronreilly/archive/2004/01/25/62570.aspx - Anonymous
January 29, 2004
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January 29, 2004
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January 30, 2004
Chris,
This is great to see you blogging. I was just complaining yesterday to a fellow peer in the Office community that we don't see enough people on the Microsoft Office development team blogging. I actually used your name! Now I am silenced!
We are going to add you to our list of Bloggers at OfficeZealot.com.
The other Chris,
Chris Kunicki - Anonymous
January 30, 2004
If only there was a way to post to your web log directly from Word or OneNote... That would be cool :v) I'm looking forward to seeing how this experiment turns out. - Anonymous
January 30, 2004
Aloha Chris and welcome to the world of blogging. You're off to a fine start and I look forward to what you have to say about OneNote in the future.
I've recently started using OneNote and occasionally the Notes feature in my Dell Axim to create Blog text. I can't post directly, but I can easily "cut & paste" when it's time to post the text to my blog.
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote - Anonymous
January 30, 2004
Yeah, I find it a lot better to just type up my entries in Word before going to my blogging tool. Otherwise i always have to think if I'm spelling words right or not and that makes it take longer to do my posts... - Anonymous
January 30, 2004
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January 30, 2004
Hey Chris glad to see you aboard. I remember your name from the Office 2003 Beta. I'm not a blog technogeek by any means, but if you use Newsgator, an add-in to Outlook, you can download a .text post add-in and then post from within Outlook. Don't know if that's what you're doing now or not.... - Anonymous
February 07, 2004
Thanks for a great blog! I read quite a few blogs by Microsoft employees, and yours is one of the best I've found so far (along with Raymond Chen and Eric Lippert).