by Paula Bach on August 01, 2007
In my last blog I talked about interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity and a little bit about my research this summer. In part 1 and 2 of this blog I am going to talk more about the research I have been doing here at Microsoft. Over the last few months I have been looking at a phenomenon called usability expertise. Anybody who has had difficulty using a product has some experience with usability... more
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by Paula Bach on September 10, 2007
Developing software has been an engineering discipline with formal methods. The evolution of software methods has ranged from the now outdated waterfall method to formal specification languages with precise semantics. Despite having methodologies, software engineering continues to be difficult. Yet despite having what seems a lack of software engineering methodology, open source software development... more
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by MichaelF on September 28, 2006
In my last blog I started talking about the power of analogy and metaphor, and dove into a discussion of the first analogy of my collection, asking what if the practice of law, rather than being like a domain suffering the consequences of a “failure of openness,” was more like an example of a domain with a great deal of openness. I promised to offer some ideas for analogies that helped... more
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by Paula Bach on June 09, 2008
I am back in Redmond. For those of you who don’t know, I spent last summer here in the open source software lab conducting research on integrating usability into open source. My last blog talked about how I have made some changes to my research program. One change is to situate the research argument within the broader scope of how open source has been changing. My favorite paper discussing this is... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on May 20, 2007
I just read Bill and Sam’s “ Business as Usual ” post. It made me think about the fact Port 25 was established in part to apply the idea that “transparency increases trust” to the work we do with the lab. So I’m sitting down to do a blog entry that’s a bit longer than usual, but will provide transparency about why “business as usual” for me. I previously... more
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by jcannon on July 18, 2006
There is a buzz word floating out there – “business readiness”. It seems everyone (including people here at Microsoft ) are trying to capture something important to organizations and people that are responsible for selecting, deploying and maintaining software for businesses. What does it really mean though? Does it mean that a software package, distribution or application meets a... more
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by hjanssen on May 02, 2007
So here I am, Amsterdam May 2nd 2007. At the Apache Conference. (A Microsoft person at an Apache Conference, what is this world coming to??) I am going to blog from the Conference until it is over. So, today the conference started in earnest with all the tracks kicking off. The first day was one of technical training. But this second day is where all the sessions started. It started all with Sander... more
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by jcannon on October 23, 2007
A quick note to let our community know that Virtual Machine Additions for Linux 2.0 has been released - bringing the version number up to 2.0. For those unfamiliar with Virtual Machine Additions for Linux, it is technology layer designed to improve the usability and interoperability of running Linux operating systems as guests or virtual machines inside of Virtual Server . From the release notes, it... more
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by Paula Bach on November 07, 2007
I’ve been on the road.. In September, I went to Limerick, Ireland for the 10th European Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) conference . Computer-supported cooperative work is a sub-sub-discipline of computerscience and a sub-discipline of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). CSCW researchers look at groupware, how people collaborate, and tools that support collaboration. They also do ethnographies... more
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by jcannon on July 07, 2006
It’s only been three months to the day since Port 25 launched. Exactly 73 interviews, posts and tips later we are only just getting started on delivering on our promise of technical and interoperability insight from the lab. The HPC clustering analysis project is well under way and I expect to have an overview post for that project in the next week. I’d like to see much more technical content... more
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