M3 Sweatt's blog
Thoughts on time, technology, products and services at Microsoft
A quick post as I run off to lunch... a question I received yesterday from a friend as I was doing...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/28/2007
I missed this article last week. We have an Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel, and one that has taken a...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/28/2007
Jason Dean reports in today's today's WSJournal that Acer is buying Gateway... "Taiwan's Acer Inc....
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/27/2007
Benjamin J. Romano has an insightful article in today's Seattle Times on the preparations "for the...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/26/2007
A sunny day and expecting more sun this weekend. Here are a few articles from the reading file and...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/24/2007
Last month I wrote a post on recommended strategies for managing email with Outlook. I get a lot of...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/24/2007
Yesterday, Microsoft and Nokia announced a deal to get Windows Live services onto Series 60 handsets...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/23/2007
Of interest: Benjamin J. Romano posts on the Seattle Times blog that Microsoft Photosynth was used...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/22/2007
First off, if you're in Washington State, check to see if it's time to go and vote in your county...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/21/2007
A number of people have left some great comments on the blog re: my post on how Apple compares the...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/21/2007
It's returned home. Our Xbox 360 that suffered from a severe case of the dreaded three red flashing...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/19/2007
There is an amusing image on Apple's web site that compares the cable mess that apparently doesn't...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/18/2007
(cross posted from...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/18/2007
Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, a site that helps small business owners get...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/18/2007
The latest customer satisfaction numbers are out from the ACSI customer satisfaction study. Ouch....
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/16/2007
Of interest... Guy Kawasaki's Visit to Trek: Two Guys in a Barn... "The Discovery Channel Team...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/16/2007
I don't like the smell of laser toner, and it turns out that it could be more than just annoying. In...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/15/2007
Seth Godin writes yesterday about his recent trip to the Soho Apple Store and how it is really, an...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/14/2007
Crystal Dupré is publisher of The Meridian Star in Meridian, MS, and wrote an op-ed piece for the...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/13/2007
Rats. I hate it when an app crashes on my PC, especially when it's caused by an issue with Windows...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/12/2007
An interesting article at on Web Pro News and how nobody wants AT&T' $10 DSL. (The low-priced...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/11/2007
Our second Xbox 360 is going in for repairs... nearly a month after the last one. I'm beginning to...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/11/2007
This evening whilst trying to set up Dance Dance Revolution for our boys and their friends, we ran...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/11/2007
Here's an interesting new blog: The Perfect Customer Experience, by Dale Wolf of The Cx Institute, a...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/10/2007
As noted in several places (by now ;) an update to Windows Live Folders was announced, renamed...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/09/2007
Netflix chose to develop and offer video on demand (and even hired Anthony Wood, CEO of ReplayTV)....
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/09/2007
I like it when a meeting ends early and up pops an IM on Office Communicator from a friend in media...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/08/2007
A quick break for lunch and I saw this come across the news... Windows Vista, Windows XP Service...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/08/2007
Dan Reed of USA Today (that venerable daily) that Virgin America kicks off their business in the...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/07/2007
A quick post between meetings... in their current poll MCPmag.com asks readers (IT managers and...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/07/2007
As previously speculated, MSNBC reports that Microsoft will cut the retail price on the Xbox 360 by...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/07/2007
My wife and I took our boys to see the US Navy's Blue Angels fly over Lake Washington this afternoon...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/04/2007
As noted, customers can usually request hotfixes for issues via their support contact or by placing...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/04/2007
Today in the Seattle Times, Charles Bermant writes about the best and worst in customer service. He...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/04/2007
Of interest... the InsideMicrosoft blog news channel says that there's drop coming in the street...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/04/2007
A quick note and a thanks to the folks for the fwd of this article from Harvard Business Online on...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/03/2007
Of interest: ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley spoke with Satya Nadella, in charge of the Search &...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 08/01/2007
Earlier this year, Seth Godin spoke at part of the Authors@Google series, talking about his book...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 07/30/2007
An article of interest on CRM Buyer.com from Rich Tehrani of Customer Interaction Solutions. He...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 07/29/2007
In MSN Tech & Gadgets (love that subsite) there's an informative post from by PC World columnist...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 07/29/2007
As I mentioned earlier about my listing on Facebook, the good folks there have fixed the "invalid...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 07/27/2007
Yes, I am a Spinal Tap fan for many years. I've had the pleasure of seeing the band perform live in...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 07/27/2007
How did I miss this announcement yesterday? (No, not the nearly $1B that SharePoint Server sales...
Author: M3 Sweatt Date: 07/27/2007