One Louder
Exploring the fine line between clever and stupid. Heather Hamilton is a Staffing Manager and Microsoft Employee Evangelist.
Virtualization win
I like to win. Hmm, I think we may have already established that. Nice work Hyper-V team. (And all...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/27/2010
I'm not saying you are a lying cheapskate
I'm saying that your cheapness has turned you into a liar, fakey bag buyers. Geez, well isn't buying...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/24/2010
I hate to do this but...(I'm lying, I don't hate to do this)
Windows 7 is doing great! Win 7 market share up, XP down and everything else stable or down. Holla!...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/20/2010
Movies as PR
Now a Google movie? You have got to be kidding me. "The intention is to be sympathetic to Sergey and...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/20/2010
The House Advantage
We have several speaker series' here at Microsoft. In the past few weeks, I have seen Pete Carroll...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/17/2010
Microsoft Mobile Games Studio
There are three things I want you to know about this: 1) I think that annoucing something like the...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/17/2010
The "real" you...
In a world where the only way to identify the "real" you is by the bar code stamped on your...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/16/2010
Getting closer to password security
I like innovation around security. I think folks are pretty lax about security, especially as it...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/20/2010
Form follows function
Not the other way around. I'm not surprised to see that the iPhone 4 antenna issue was cause by a...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/16/2010
Look at your grades. Now look at mine.
Well, nobody should look at my grades. Because, yeah. All awesomeness is followed by parody. Who...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/16/2010
The part where my head explodes (not "literally")
While I don't technically feel "guilty" about it, I know that my blog posts lately have been maybe a...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/12/2010
50 Smartest People
OK, this is pretty cool. I'm not sure if this signifies an increase in the number of successful...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/12/2010
Corporate Social Media Policies: More is better or not so much?
Six years ago...six!...I started blogging and shortly after that started speaking at conferences...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/09/2010
Part 2 of Kara Swisher's Interview on the Microsoft!/Yahoo! Integration
Kara's full interview is here. Just when I was thinking about how dry the interview was, we got...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/06/2010
Understanding the Microsoft-Yahoo! Alliance
OK, first of all, please don't say "Microhoo!" Honestly, do we have to do that? Maybe I am just...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/02/2010
I think someone might have to come up with a new word for "retirement"
A Fortune article on Bill Gates' "retirement". For folks that are accustomed to really stretching...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/21/2010
Boring work meetings meet beautiful design
I'm a fan of good design. Unfortunately, my decision to now love mid-century modern design is...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/16/2010
I like what I am hearing about Bing!
I think being #2 is okey-dokey. Especially a year after launch. I pick a search engine based on what...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/14/2010
Project Natal now Kinect; still awesome.
This sounds good so far. A jillion Star Wars nerds are getting ready to get their light saber on. Or...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/14/2010
Microsoft donates $100K to gulf clean up. Stephen Colberts ears still crooked.
I'm just not sure how I could love Stephen Colbert any more. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/08/2010
People have clearly run out of things to protest
Our American culture is getting protest happy. I had just moved here when the WTO Summit protests...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/07/2010
If a bubble pops and there's nobody there to hear it, does it really make a sound?
It's a little encouraging to see recognition that talent (specifically tech talent) is pooling in...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/01/2010
The resume is an introduction, not an interview
Thought I'd pull together some resume tips, seeing that the economy is scratching it's way out of...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/01/2010
Failure: learn or forget?
Working for a company where self-critique is an art form, and being someone who always (always!)...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/04/2010
The demise of MySpace and Palm
I don't really think that Sean Parker is saying anything that we didn't already know. But the sound...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/29/2010
To Gizmodo
It's just a matter of time before "gizmodo" becomes a verb. gizmodo (verb)Etymology: modern English...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/28/2010
Trapeze stunts
Against my better judgement, I am featuring a video spotlighting my big butt, for the purpose of...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/28/2010
How sick is "sick enough"
Ah, the sick day. When you should be at home getting better but instead, you work; possibly...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/23/2010
But you'd be so much more attractive if you had a Windows 7 Phone
and it's not just because that "there's an app for that" thing makes people think they can keep...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/21/2010
I work at Microsoft
and being awesome was my idea.
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/20/2010
Teen Hacker
This interview with Marc Maiffret is interesting. Some people might be interested more in the...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/16/2010
A quiz that doesn't provide the answers at the end...
...is called market research. Good concept, FastCompany. But try harder next time.
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/14/2010
LinkedIn user, go back and try again using your smart-person voice
My buddy, Chris Hoyt (AKA RecruiterGuy) diverged from his usual writing topics (about recruiting,...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 04/09/2010