product management

OpenAI’s GPT‑5 rollout has hit an early snag: a technically ambitious upgrade that promised sharper reasoning, larger context windows and selectable “thinking” modes provoked an unexpected user backlash over tone, prompting the company to restore the older GPT‑4o model for paying users and to...

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to manage one’s life with the strategy and precision of a seasoned product manager is swiftly moving from novel idea to everyday practice. As AI tools surge in capability and accessibility, individuals are empowered to transform personal...

For millions of Windows users worldwide, the system tray is much more than a cluster of icons—it’s an anchor for daily interaction with the operating system, a miniature command center for time, notifications, and app awareness. Recent events surrounding Microsoft’s attempt to overhaul this...

Microsoft’s legendary innovation pipeline is world-renowned, yet not every product emerging from Redmond continues to shine in the long haul. As Microsoft’s strategic focus hones in ever more fiercely on its revenue-driving AI, cloud, and enterprise solutions, an uncomfortable but increasingly...

Microsoft’s ongoing evolution of the Windows 11 operating system is a textbook example of how software development at a massive scale is as much about listening to users as it is about shipping new features. Nowhere is that delicate balance more visible than in the recent back-and-forth...

As Microsoft launches its 2026 fiscal year, confirmation of significant summer layoffs has sent shockwaves across the technology sector and partner ecosystem. The Redmond-based giant has officially acknowledged its plan to cut less than 4 percent of its workforce—an adjustment translating to...

In the crowded arena of enterprise software, where technological innovation often outpaces the practical realities of small business adoption, one leader’s efforts at Microsoft have become a touchstone for how digital transformation can truly work for everyone. Maheswari Govindaraju’s tenure as...

Erik Lindeman’s move to OnTerra Systems brings a refreshing gust of expertise into a rapidly shifting mapping technology landscape. With more than two decades spent at Microsoft steering innovative projects from Bing Maps for Enterprise to Azure Maps, Lindeman now takes the helm as Director of...

As a kid, Charles Taylor was always interested in tech – though he didn’t know exactly what that meant, beyond translating to a job related to computer science. Growing up in Littleton, North Carolina – an actual little town with less than 700 people – he went to school with the same group of...

Link Removed Chris working through the design process on a Surface Studio. Burton has been synonymous with the sport of snowboarding for decades. Since the company’s founding, Snowboarding has grown and evolved, even becoming an Olympic sport in 1998. Burton has been a key piece of the sport’s...

In this episode Soumow, Kaitlin and Golnaz have a great conversation with Sonya Koptyev, from being the only woman in her C++ class, photography, working for a dotCOM, her fitness hobby, through to the work she's doing today on Office 365. For more information on Office 365 development please...

Visual Studio Test Professional 2015 RC delivers a complete plan-test-track workflow to enable in-context collaboration between testers, product managers and other stakeholders. Link Removed

Keynoting for the second time at Link Removed vice president of Windows Phone program management, Link Removed, joins (our second to last!) countdown show this week to let us in on what he’s been up to. Joe and his team are responsible for the design and software product definition of...

In this “Ask the expert” video, Evan Lew, product manager for Office Web Apps, addresses some of the burning questions from our users. During this short video, Evan talks about Office Web Apps on mobile devices, co-authoring, the benefits and advantages of using Office Web Apps, and a variety of...

With 240 million copies sold, Windows 7 has certainly been hugely successful. Windows XP, however, remains the most common version of Windows, and corporate customers are a big part of Windows XP's continued ubiquity. Earlier this week, Ars talked to Gavriella Schuster, general manager of...

From Link Removed - Invalid URL One of the few pieces of criticism that Microsoft got for Windows 7 was related to the apparently modest plans it had for the operating system, with some calling the new OS just a minor upgrade from its precursor. Under the leadership of Steven Sinofsky...

Windows 7 is growing at fast pace through development milestones, in its way from Beta to Release Candidate stage, with interim builds cooking over in Redmond even though served only to select company testers and dogfooded internally. The start of March 2009 is synonymous with reports indicating...

http://redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1623 Hmm, I think that sounds like a good idea. The release of Media Center also happens quite often, which so far has been every year. Perhaps this will help Windows 7 comeout on the promised date. :)