go ahead, mac my day
a Macintosh girl in a Microsoft world
thanks!
I put out a call on this blog last week to help me find some users who are Entourage and PowerPoint...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/26/2006
Mac-friendly websites
One of the problems about working for Microsoft is that people assume that I know everything that's...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/25/2006
New Zealand chocolate is the inverse of Swiss chocolate
Ahh, OOPSLA. The week in October where I stop sleeping and eating. Today is day two of my personal...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/22/2006
Bay Area Mac users needed
Edited to add: This study has now been filled. Thanks for signing up! I know that I’ve asked our...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/20/2006
cohorts
I'm probably going to be incommunicado for the next week or two. I'm in Redmond right now for some...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/19/2006
benefits
You know what else rocks about working in MacBU? The cheesecake. Seriously. And every October, I'm...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/16/2006
winks and webcams
I’m a heavy instant messaging user, and always have been. I started back in my first undergrad, when...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/12/2006
update time!
Warm up your downloading engines. It's update time! Messenger got an update to solve the login...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/11/2006
book review - 'Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences' by John Allen Paulos
Book title: Innummeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences Author: John Allen Paulos...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/09/2006
of babies and bathwater (on Mac Mojo)
I have no idea if anyone here isn't reading Mac Mojo, but in case not, my latest post over there is...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/05/2006
anniversary
Today is my one-year anniversary with Microsoft. I hadn't ever considered working for Microsoft, but...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/03/2006
Messenger:Mac 6 is out!
On Wednesday, at 10am PST, Messenger 6 went live. We've added some highly-requested features,...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/28/2006
another reason I like working for Microsoft
I love my job in so many ways. It's cool to work on Mac products, especially ones that millions of...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/25/2006
personal ads, usability style
Mac girl seeking Mac people for long-lasting Office relationship.
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/20/2006
meet the press
Mary Starman just posted a great article over in Mac Mojo that gives you a behind-the-scenes look at...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/19/2006
adoptive step-spawn of Satan
Here's my favourite comment that was posted over at Mac Mojo this week: It really helps to know that...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/15/2006
last chance for OOPSLA 2006 advance registration
Advance registration for OOPSLA 2006 closes on Friday, 15 September. Take a look over the conference...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/14/2006
you don't miss something until it's gone
One thing that I absolutely love about Microsoft's culture is the concept of dogfood. Dogfood is...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/12/2006
pretty persuasion
Apple's got a profile up on their website about a PowerPoint user. It's called Powers of Persuasion....
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/12/2006
intern demo day
September is always a sad time of year. It's when the summer interns go back to school to finish...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/08/2006
the one true editor is now the one true search engine
How cool is this? visearch is a search engine based on The One True Editor. The only thing that I...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/07/2006
new MacBU blogger!
Our newest MacBU blogger is also our newest MacBU employee. He's Gary Ritchie, and he's a new dev up...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/06/2006
fifteen minutes of Internet fame
We thought that people would be interested in our new team blog, but we didn't quite anticipate the...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/05/2006
meanwhile, back at the ranch ...
For my adoring fans (hi, mom!) who want to read everything that I have to say, I've just posted my...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/30/2006
the Microsoft fallacy
One thing that I've heard a lot of is the idea that Microsoft has a lot of money, so MacBU should be...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/29/2006
I got my Mac mojo working
Because I love you guys, I'm going to post a pre-announce. Tomorrow, we're launching a new MacBU...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/28/2006
the life and death of Virtual PC for Mac
Most of the other MacBU folks have been talking about VBA while I've been gone, and I don't think...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/22/2006
honey, I'm home!
On the off-chance that you guys noticed that I haven't posted in a week, I'm popping in to say that...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/21/2006
$100 laptop commentary
I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when I read the commentary about the $100 laptop from the...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/11/2006
more about our announcements
In case you haven't seen it yet, some of the MacBU crew who aren't here at WWDC have written some...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/09/2006
A fool is born every minute ...
... and, according to the latest State of the Blogosphere update from Technorati, there's a blog...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/09/2006
Office:Mac update 11.2.6
You might have missed it with everything else that's going on in the Apple world this week, but we...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/09/2006
announcement timing
I learned something this week that I hadn't been able to articulate before. One excellent way to...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/08/2006
WWDC tips
So this is my first time attending WWDC. Got any tips for a newbie? :)
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/03/2006
where's the rumours?
We're less than a week away from the big Stevenote. I trawled through the rumour sites today, and...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/02/2006
my WWDC schedule
On the off-chance that any of y'all want to meet the woman behind the blog, here are my current...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 08/01/2006
last chance to be my minion
Tomorrow is the last day that I'm accepting applications for student volunteers for OOPSLA 2006. To...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/31/2006
the usability of rental cars
I've been quite the road warrior for the past few months. The biggest question in my travels is my...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/28/2006
security versus usability
This morning, I noticed that we got some feedback from an unhappy Entourage user that says: How DARE...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/24/2006
passionate users
The manager of our user assistance team pulled together some statistics about the product feedback...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/21/2006
humour starring Steve
A couple of amusing things related to Steve Jobs hit my radar today: I almost ran over Steve Jobs...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/20/2006
more accessories for my blackbook
I'm not one of those people who dresses up my cat. No, instead I pour my energy into dressing up my...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/18/2006
I'm, alas, a salami!
In a previous post, I revealed that my favourite MacBU code name was Taco Cat. None of you guys rose...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/18/2006
spare the air
Today is a Spare the Air day in the Bay Area. Public transit on most (all?) of the local public...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/17/2006
information glut
I'm in the middle of reading Technopoly by Neil Postman right now. So far (70 pages in), it's an...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/17/2006
Office:Mac updates
There's a new update available today for Office 2004 and Office X. For Office 2004, version 11.2.5...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/11/2006
fake Leopard screenshot contest
And while I'm making with the linky today, here's another one: the fake Leopard screenshot contest....
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/10/2006
Mac ad responses
There's another spoof of Apple's new Get a Mac campaign, this time from the folks at VH-1. From...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/10/2006
the usability of blogs
Usability pundit Jakob Nielsen wrote a pretty good article about the usability of blogs: top ten...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/07/2006
secrets and buzz
The Wall Street Journal published an article last week titled At Apple, Secrecy Complicates Life but...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 07/05/2006