February 24, 2004
The Mad Mac Maven
The employee weblog phenomenon may be starting to take hold in Microsoft's Mac Business Unit. See, for example, this weblog, started earlier this month by Rick Schaut, a software design engineer who has worked for the company for 14 years, focusing the entire time on Microsoft Word for Mac. (In his blog subtitle, he calls himself the "Mad Mac Maven.")
Schaut describes his history with the company toward the bottom of this post. You can also learn the very technical definition of an "Osgood" in this post about Ed Fries, the former Microsoft Game Studios chief.
Other Mac BU bloggers include Omar Shahine, lead program manager for Virtual PC for Mac.
Posted by Todd Bishop at February 24, 2004 10:19 AM
Thanks for the plug, Todd, though, now that I've become more public, I'm going to have to start watching my P's and Q's :-).
You're welcome, Rick. And as long as you don't post any photos of G5s coming in on a loading dock, you should be OK.
So with all these mac guys at Microsoft, when are you going to give us a "real" exchange client for OSx?
We're using entourage with extremely mixed results, and no support for tasks, notes, or subfolders in our address books.
So is there ever going to be a .NET runtime equivalent for the Mac? (I mean other than slapping Virtual PC on there and that wasn't what I meant.) Without it, it could make some full featured web apps unavailable to Mac users since some things still require the runtime being on the machine.
Also in another, but related topic... Since I know the Mac Office team used RealBasic while programming the latest installment of Mac Office, I was wondering if RealBasic can be used with Cocoa. I have been unable to get a definitive answer on this yet.
Thanks.
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