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2010 62
- moving to new digs, and open Q&A thread
- RTM, baby!!!!!!!
- more details about Office:Mac 2011
- Office:Mac usability study participants needed for studies beginning in September
- another taste of Office:Mac 2011
- relaxed, funny, and quirky
- Office:Mac 2008 (12.2.6) and Office:Mac 2004 (11.6.0) updates available now
- what's on your Office:Mac to-do list?
- Office:Mac 2011 will hit store shelves in October
- 20 years of Rick!
- Office:Mac 2011 preview on CNet
- Q&A: What do you think about Office:Mac 2011 being 32-bit?
- Outlook:Mac usability study in Mountain View, California
- Q&A: Should I get Office:Mac now or later?
- Office:Mac updates today: Office 2008 12.2.5, Office 2004 11.5.9
- looking for blog feedback
- Q&A: can I send a mail in Entourage that the recipient can't forward?
- PowerPoint is not the right tool for every job -- and that's perfectly okay
- Q&A: what's the best way to get help with Entourage?
- PowerPoint is not the right tool for every job
- airport reflections
- help improve Exchange
- Q&A: how do I make Entourage:Mac my default mail application?
- Q&A: when is the next version of Office:Mac coming out?
- Microsoft employees are the most social media-savvy in the world
- Q&A: what Macs do you have?
- "getting hired by Microsoft sounds pretty sweet"
- cross-platform collaboration with Office:Mac 2011
- Exchange 2010 SP1 is on its way
- beta testing vs usability testing
- Q&A: Will I be able to move from Entourage to Outlook:Mac?
- Q&A: Why isn't OCS supported in the Messenger:Mac v8 beta?
- Messenger:Mac v8 beta is here!
- usability testing is not beta testing
- the expert vs newbie fallacy
- Office:Mac installation questions
- Office:Mac 2008 12.2.4 and Office:Mac 2004 11.5.8 now available
- Q&A: Why is it Office:Mac 2011 if it's coming out this year?
- usability participants needed for Outlook:Mac study in March
- Q&A: is Visual Basic returning to Office:Mac?
- catching up
- Why is Office:Mac getting the Ribbon?
- top Office:Mac questions at Macworld Expo
- on working the show floor at Macworld Expo
- Office:Mac 2004 11.5.7 update available
- come chat with me at Macworld 2010!
- help us make Mactopia better
- $15 Macworld 2010 expo pass or 15% off conference registration
- Exchange 2010 webcasts
- the usage fallacy
- Mac Office loves you
- the user experience of Federal Student Aid
- participants needed for Messenger:Mac study
- job opening: user experience manager in the Macintosh Business Unit
- tablet rumours
- Q&A: How do I book a conference room in Entourage?
- Q&A: how do I sync my BlackBerry with Entourage?
- Q&A: don't usability studies violate your NDA?
- the thing I hate the most about my job
- want a sneak peak of Outlook:Mac?
- the spiffy new Microsoft blog
- Macworld Expo rocks for software developers
2009 139
- year in review
- Q&A: challenges of developing Office:Mac
- Q&A: which version of Entourage should I use with Exchange?
- the big boss reviews 2009
- Bing app now available for iPhone
- Q&A: Office:Mac and "Mac-like"
- Macworld Expo 2010 session: Administering Macs in Exchange 2007/2003
- Q&A: How do I submit bugs for Office:Mac?
- Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus is ten years old
- Q&A: how do I become a beta tester for Microsoft's Mac applications?
- Q&A: are you going to stop making Mac apps?
- Q&A: how do I move data from Access onto my Mac?
- Q&A: how do I fix the "Unable to establish a secure connection ..." issue in Entourage:Mac?
- Q&A: how do I see free/busy information in Entourage:Mac?
- Q&A: What kind of computers do you use in MacBU and Microsoft?
- open question and answer thread
- thinking about the new MacBook
- in case you were wondering what to get me for Christmas ...
- Office:Mac for college students
- the 700-mile hallway
- Japanese deal for Office:Mac
- congratulations to the Office for Windows team
- the holiday shopping season is upon us
- my Twitter philosophy
- Q&A: Hiding horizontal date bars in Entourage:Mac
- Q&A: Why can't I update Office:Mac 2008?
- Kevin Smith at Macworld
- days where I love what I do
- how to customise contextual menus in Word:Mac
- Office:Mac 2008 12.2.3, Entourage for Web Services 13.0.3, Office 2004 11.5.6 available today
- Q&A: How do I move my Entourage settings to a new computer?
- my Mac as a media centre
- setting up the new Mac
- walkthrough of Document Companion for Mac
- one of the things I like about Microsoft
- Windows Live Sync now supports Snow Leopard
- laptop adventures
- 100 days until Macworld 2010!
- statement of intent
- Live Mesh now supports Snow Leopard
- how the Office for Windows team designs for their users
- Office:Mac 2004 support has been extended
- four years!
- women needed for Outlook:Mac study
- the case for Entourage:Mac on Snow Leopard
- want to see Outlook:Mac?
- Q&A: what hardware do you use when testing Office:Mac?
- Office 2008 Business Edition available today
- an admission
- user experience improvements without user interface improvements
- Q&A: I just bought OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard", how do I install Office:Mac 2008?
- charming, professional, friendly, passionate
- a short film in PowerPoint:Mac
- Q&A: How do I set up an out-of-office message in Entourage?
- Q&A: Can I use Entourage for Web Services with Exchange 2003?
- Outlook: Coming soon to a Mac near you
- Entourage for Web Services released today
- Macworld: five favourite PowerPoint tips
- Remote Desktop Connection for Mac 2.0.1 available today
- Exchange 2010 speech-to-text
- Office:Mac 2008 12.2.1 available today
- things I learned via Twitter
- Q&A: What kind of people participate in your usability studies?
- Q&A: How do I get into user experience?
- the evolution of the Document Connection for Mac
- Q&A: What about Entourage EWS and Office:Mac 2008 SP2?
- Office:Mac 2008 SP2 available today
- Dennis Liu does it again
- things I dislike about Safari 4
- get organised with Peter Walsh and Office:Mac 2008
- books about Office 2008
- Inbox 482
- Paul Robichaux: "The iPhone as a mail device, 3.0 edition"
- design research as the fourth estate
- Using Entourage to manage your mail
- Q&A: Do participants in your usability studies have to be in the San Francisco or Puget Sound areas?
- Mac users still needed!
- Mac email, calendar, and address book users needed for usability study in San Francisco Bay Area
- Office:Mac 2008 12.1.9 and Office:Mac 2004 11.5.5 now available
- Q&A: Why doesn't Hotmail work with Entourage:Mac now?
- Q&A: why don't new events created on my iPhone show up in Entourage?
- Exchange 2010 webcast series
- Q&A: other MacBU blogs
- Q&A: why does the Messenger:Mac window lose focus after I send my message?
- your security questions might not be that secure
- new members of the family
- Q&A: How do I get into a MacBU private beta?
- last chance to enter WeddingBee.com's contest for a new MacBook, Office:Mac 2008, and $1000!
- data analysis in Excel:Mac 2008
- Q&A: How can I use Outlook Web Access 2010?
- Macworld on the impact of Exchange 2010 for Mac users
- it's good to have friends in high places
- Q&A: How do I install the 12.1.7 update with Entourage EWS?
- Outlook Web Access 2010 screenshots
- Guy Kawasaki on PowerPoint
- Exchange 2010 beta now available
- Office 2008 12.1.7 and Office 2004 11.5.4 available today
- Office 2008 trial now available
- love is in the air
- thoughts on the Apple Tax
- decisions, decisions
- San Francisco Bay Area Mac users needed
- only one of these is an April Fool's joke
- the man behind the logo
- Macworld Expo has new dates
- article review - 'When Users Do and Don't Rely on Icon Shape'
- Macworld productivity article wins an award from American Business Media
- pretending to work
- Q&A: How is your Mac Mini set up as a media server?
- Mac users needed in San Francisco Bay Area
- new Mac lust
- video help for Office:Mac 2008
- backing up Entourage: individual items, with EagleFlier, or via Automator actions
- Mac Mojo: "waving the red flag"
- Adobe Illustrator plug-in for Silverlight now supports native text and symbols
- Q&A: moving from Outlook to Entourage
- Microsoft employees gave $87.7 million to charity last year
- a note about my employer
- my favourite feature of Exchange 14
- how have you customised OS X?
- considering the Mac development space
- OOPSLA submission ideas for Mac people
- Messenger:Mac 7.0.2 available now
- Adobe Illustrator to Silverlight
- Q&A: How do I sync from Entourage to my iPhone?
- Entourage EWS questions
- Mac Mojo: "Entourage EWS beta feedback so far"
- a personal Mac history
- will Apple give me a netbook?
- Entourage EWS beta available now
- Q&A: What mouse were you using on the demo machines in the Office:Mac booth?
- Q&A: Should I participate in the Entourage public beta?
- reflections on Macworld Expo 2009 (part two)
- reflections on Macworld Expo 2009 (part one)
- top Entourage questions at Macworld Expo today
- The MacBU beta trifecta: Entourage Exchange Web Services, Messenger, and Document Collaboration Companion
- Macworld Expo tips
- Mac developers who made the news
- Q&A: Why doesn't Entourage work with Hotmail anymore?
2008 104
- an interview with one of our senior managers
- an interview with one of our senior Entourage developers
- Mac Mojo: "how to find your way out from all that email"
- Messenger:Mac beta with AV coming in 2009
- the five stages of Twitter acceptance
- Steve's not gonna be there, but I will
- Office 2008 videos now available on iTunes and in the help
- Office 12.1.5 and Office 11.5.3 available today
- beer, bowling, and billiards
- Roz Ho on leadership
- Q&A: How did you get into software?
- half off Office 2008
- Mac Mojo: "you're my favourite"
- holiday themes available on Art of Office
- the security of memes
- baking for charity
- Microsoft mice have Frustration-Free Packaging
- Netflix and Silverlight
- MacBU has a new GM!
- Office 12.1.4 available now
- give to charity and you could win Office:Mac 2008
- the risks and rewards of fixing bugs
- OOPSLA 2008 day one - archaeology, response to Fred Brooks
- OOPSLA 2008 day zero - Greek gods and goddesses
- Office 2008 12.1.3 and Office 2004 11.5.2 available now
- Q&A: How did you come to join MacBU?
- Nadyne @ OOPSLA 2008
- share and enjoy
- Q&A: Entourage 2008 and Exchange
- iTunes and my big library
- why developers complain about the App Store
- an iPhone observation
- got questions? go on and ask
- OOPSLA 2008 early registration deadline extended to 15 September 2008
- Q&A: What do you mean by a user indirectly telling you something?
- listening to our users
- questions for you PowerPoint users
- Solver for Excel 2008 is available today
- questions for you Entourage users
- Q&A: What's it like to work in MacBU?
- OOPSLA 2008 registration is now open
- the user experience of a small-market airport
- MacBU user experience job openings
- the mooses have it
- problems updating Office 2008?
- Office 2008 12.1.2 and Office 2004 11.5.1 are available today
- why Mac users complain about the App Store
- Q&A: Would a 3G iPhone be better for you?
- living with a pushy iPhone
- Back to school season is upon us
- book review - 'Subject to Change: Creating Great Products and Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design'
- Confidential to Chelsey
- the iPhone heartbreak of the business traveller
- Q&A: Why isn't all of Microsoft's Mac development done by MacBU?
- RDC v2 is available today!
- reflections on one year of iPhone
- Messenger 7.0.1 available now
- Office 2008 12.1.1 and Office 2004 11.5 available today
- we're hiring
- wherein our heroine admits to not being a good Apple fangirl
- competition doesn't mean that there are winners and losers
- SVMUG reminder: tonight!
- the geek shirts of WWDC
- Stanford MUG reminder: tonight!
- WWDC wishlist
- other iPhone features I want
- user experience designer position available in MacBU
- Nadyne @ Silicon Valley MUG, Monday, 16 June 2008
- the one thing that really annoys me about my iPhone
- Clippy has found a new career in acting
- Office 2008 SP1 and VBA!
- Nadyne @ Stanford MUG, Monday 02 June 2008
- achievements in Office
- Office 2008 podcasts forthcoming
- the road to OOPSLA 2008
- features vs scenarios, with a Clippy example
- dreaming about WWDC
- hangin' out with the MVPs
- the evolution of My Day
- your day is My Day
- Q&A: Why do you do this job?
- the future of Entourage
- I'm on a foggy highway
- plan to throw away good designs
- phishing in Mom terms
- Office 2008 12.0.1 update now available
- Automating Office 2008
- my office is so bright, I gotta wear shades
- Office 2008 benchmark preview
- the recurring nature of security versus usability
- Q&A: Which Tufte book to start with?
- my cool co-workers
- you are not your target user
- Steve Metsker passed away
- the responsibility of trust
- Valleywag endorses His Steveness
- you never know what you'll find in legacy code
- my favourite Apple announcement last week: new HIG!
- my super-duper PowerPoint 2008 demo
- today's top five questions in the Office 2008 booth
- launch!
- Nadyne @ MWSF 2008
- we're #2! we're #2!
- Nadyne's unofficial guide to working in a booth at Macworld Expo (part two)
2007 135
- iTunes movie rentals vs Netflix
- Nadyne's unofficial guide to working in a booth at Macworld Expo (part one)
- don't forget - sign up to participate in usability studies!
- Q&A: what Apple news sites do you read?
- ThinkSecret closes its doors
- the bits have left the building
- why I love living in Silicon Valley
- my MWSF wishlist (MWSF 2008 edition)
- the progression of an idea at OOPSLA
- Black Friday Deal
- Q&A: MAPI support
- go ahead, ask
- OOPSLA 2008 on Facebook
- accessing Exchange 2007 from your Mac
- now with 100% more Facebook!
- developing mature software
- RDC for Mac 2.0 public beta (rev 2) now available
- the giving campaign
- Office 2008 wins Best of Show at MacLife Expo 2007
- OOPSLA 2008: 19-23 October, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- OOPSLA 2007 Student Research Competition winners
- great day at OOPSLA
- women of OOPSLA birds of a feather meeting tonight!
- best non-Apple laptop?
- Mac user group @ OOPSLA - Tuesday, 5pm-7pm
- Twitter @ OOPSLA
- Nadyne @ OOPSLA 10/20-10/25
- Mac not MAC
- reminder: I'm at the North Coast MUG tonight!
- Fake Steve is visiting Microsoft
- Kathy Sierra is speaking at OOPSLA 2007
- Nadyne @ UC-Davis career fair on October 11
- Nadyne @ North Coast MUG on October 16
- the user experience of HearMusic.com
- the bouncing of the bugs
- the "Word 5.1 Plus Ten" phenomenon
- 10 years of being the crazy ones
- hope springs eternal for Newton lovers
- a delicate balancing act
- sneaky peeking for Office:Mac 2008
- for the love of my Mac
- the user experience of airports
- workaholic Wednesdays
- can we stop with the unboxing photos already?
- get your OOFage on
- a personal plea to Apple
- OOPSLA 2007 early registration closes 13 September 2007
- unleash your inner artiste, Office-style
- why do you want OneNote on your Mac?
- go forth and do research
- the user experience of a hotel shower
- usability versus usage -- an iPhone example
- newest MacBUer
- Mac geek humour
- the unmasking of Fake Steve
- Catch-22
- releasing software is like the first day of high school
- living with the iPhone - listening to music
- living with the iPhone - crashes
- RDC v2 public beta coming
- untangling technology
- living with the iPhone - making calls
- alpha geek
- what I love about my iPhone so far
- digital turnip twadding
- iPhone UX issues and inconsistencies
- iPhone acquired
- a new career low
- queue with Woz for your iPhone
- Wibble
- article review - 'Understanding Memory Triggers for Task Tracking'
- this just in: geeks prefer black
- 20 years of PowerPoint
- the iPhone user experience revisited
- book review - 'The Inmates Are Running the Asylum'
- some WWDC notes
- delicious taunting
- the t-shirts of WWDC
- Mac girl at Microsoft, Windows boy at Apple
- wishlist check-in
- the day before WWDC
- generally managing
- the user experience of the Westin's room service menu
- chat at WWDC
- OOPSLA call for posters, demos, and other late content
- iPhone ad deconstruction (first thoughts)
- the lead-up to WWDC
- Fake Steve is writing a Real Book
- the Apple geek run-down of D5
- stay off message
- Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, together at last
- your library is delicious
- the one thing I don't like about my Macbook
- file format converter is now available
- will the real Fake Steve Jobs please keep hiding?
- the odds are good
- pictures from CHI 2007
- Office 11.3.5 update now available
- UX positions open in MacBU
- CHI2007
- blue and green and orange and purple all over
- something to aspire to
- deja vu
- Creepy
- a short guide to Mac user responses to the Leopard slip
- respect your user
- in loving memory of Usenet
- the five stages of grief (iPhone edition)
- making it and faking it
- the user experience of gift cards
- product review - iFrog one-handed keyboard
- pet peeve #1
- book review - 'Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colourful Company'
- website security with cute widdle kittens
- article review - The Design of a GUI Paradigm Based on Tablets, Two-Hands, and Transparency
- iLaunching the iLaunch
- another instance of security versus usability
- How to be a software engineer without coding
- happy update day!
- Rolling Stone on Apple
- happy birthday, MacBU!
- the arcane craft of writing error messages
- peace out
- book review - 'iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon'
- Elijah
- the iPhone user experience
- Office:Mac 2008
- from the depths of despair
- reminder: at the blogger lounge
- music to start and end the day
- 'twas the night before MWSF
- Nadyne@MWSF
- Tufte seminar review
- let it snow!
2006 161
- Oof
- sitting in the middle of an us-versus-them debate
- the spam that keeps on spamming
- Q&A: backing up Entourage
- go on, ask
- Apple, you evil temptress
- my MWSF wishlist - top ten announcements I wish Apple would make
- Test post
- book review - 'A Pattern Language for Web Usability'
- enabling OOPSLA
- thanks!
- Mac-friendly websites
- New Zealand chocolate is the inverse of Swiss chocolate
- Bay Area Mac users needed
- cohorts
- benefits
- winks and webcams
- update time!
- book review - 'Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences' by John Allen Paulos
- of babies and bathwater (on Mac Mojo)
- anniversary
- Messenger:Mac 6 is out!
- another reason I like working for Microsoft
- personal ads, usability style
- meet the press
- adoptive step-spawn of Satan
- last chance for OOPSLA 2006 advance registration
- you don't miss something until it's gone
- pretty persuasion
- intern demo day
- the one true editor is now the one true search engine
- new MacBU blogger!
- fifteen minutes of Internet fame
- meanwhile, back at the ranch ...
- the Microsoft fallacy
- I got my Mac mojo working
- the life and death of Virtual PC for Mac
- honey, I'm home!
- $100 laptop commentary
- more about our announcements
- A fool is born every minute ...
- Office:Mac update 11.2.6
- announcement timing
- WWDC tips
- where's the rumours?
- my WWDC schedule
- last chance to be my minion
- the usability of rental cars
- security versus usability
- passionate users
- humour starring Steve
- more accessories for my blackbook
- I'm, alas, a salami!
- spare the air
- information glut
- Office:Mac updates
- fake Leopard screenshot contest
- Mac ad responses
- the usability of blogs
- secrets and buzz
- of bugs and bug fixing
- Microsoft Mac-only desktop review
- discoverability
- Q&A – What professional memberships do you have, and why?
- small MacBook review
- another MacBU blogger
- a change is gonna come
- how to build your audience
- book review - 'High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian'
- why you should tell us what you think
- a day in the life (summary)
- blank messages in Entourage
- a day in the life (part three)
- Irony
- a day in the life (part two)
- a day in the life (part one)
- Microsoft's new Mac-only desktop set
- new family member
- Nadyne
- warm fuzzy
- grow your own
- hobbies
- mum's the word
- more on the Fifth Avenue store
- Q&A – What methods other than standard usability tests do you use?
- on loving what you do
- Apple news roundup
- painting the dock
- Apple ad response
- I don't know what it is ...
- Apple ads
- MWE blog
- me @ Professional Business Women of California conference
- Q&A - what do you work on?
- free wi-fi in RI
- /. on Cringely's latest blatherings
- Steve Jobs isn't donning the mouse ears
- Q&A - are you guys allowed to have iPods?
- 50 acres and an iPod
- NYT weighs in on France vs iTunes
- Q&A - what's your educational background?
- Earth Day at Apple
- keeping secrets
- an interview with Rick Schaut
- lovin' the Bay
- a tour of the MacBU Mac lab in Redmond
- MacTech publishes Office:Mac 2004 benchmarks
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... 921, 922, ...
- the archetypical blog post
- Boot Camp and the impact of blogs
- tell us what you think
- Q&A – what’s the interview process in MacBU like?
- April fool
- time to update the resume again?
- Dude, you bought a $10k Dell!
- an interview with a Microsoft attorney
- Q&A - so what do you do, anyway?
- article review - Usability engineering methods for software developers
- Office:Mac update 11.2.3
- on working for Microsoft
- me @ MacRIT
- MyMac.com interviews MacBU
- don't try to beat us at our own game
- illustrated Ruby on Rails tutorial
- you will be assimilated
- safety in Storrs
- office spring cleaning
- the latest and greatest (at least for now)
- OOPSLA 2006 submissions are open
- book review - 'Leonardo's Laptop' by Ben Schneiderman
- a virus in the wild, part two
- case mods and car mods come together
- limericks and authenticity
- Yahoo!'s design patterns library
- a virus in the wild
- cosmic binaries
- oh noes!
- Your Senator needs an iPod
- slipping one in under the radar
- expanding the universe
- FAQ #1 - Have you ever met Bill Gates?
- more content on iTunes
- Google Earth + Entourage
- iTunes University
- Disney bought Pixar
- professional outsider
- MWSF round-up
- may the circle be unbroken
- Sun and Apple could have merged
- do TV show sales on iTunes result in greater viewership?
- MS releasing new Mac-only keyboard and mouse
- 'Microsoft cashes in on Mac'
- Virtual PC at SVMUG Monday night
- /. notices that we're going to continue work
- I'm not unemployed!
- my MWSF schedule
- exhibit hall pass to MWSF
- time to update the resume
- KDE to support Dashboard Widgets
- another MacBU blogger
- OOPSLA 2006 call for participation
2005 17
- three months at MS
- a Macintosh girl in a Microsoft world
- Office:Mac at SVMUG tonight
- a tempest in a teapot
- Embracing the wired future
- Apple gift cards
- remembering John Vlissides
- John Vlissides
- TiVo will support transfers to the video iPod and PSP
- MWSF rumour mill has begun
- the obligatory advertisement
- 1 million new Mac users?
- Appleworks and iWork shipping on new Macs?
- change in iPod form factor
- snapshot from my day
- the latest and greatest
- introduction