Windows Phone 7 Series has been announced and it looks a lot more exciting than I expected. The fact that Microsoft actually pulled off a reboot and also adopted the Zune HD UI paradigm is encouraging. I also like the minimum hardware requirements imposed on devices and restrictions on UI customization.
Integration with online web services [...]
Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category
16 Feb
Windows Phone 7
9 Dec
Super Freakonomics
I picked up and read Super Freakonomics on my flight to Korea. If you read and enjoyed Freakonomics, I think there’s a good chance you will like the sequel as well. I certainly did.
While reading through the book, I was delighted to find good coverage on Microsoft Amalaga in the chapter “Why Should Suicide Bombers [...]
1 Oct
H1N1 Response Center
The H1N1 Response Center is an self-assessment application that we built in response to user concerns over H1N1 flu (Swine Flu). You can learn whether you have H1N1 symptoms and what steps you can take. There are also useful resources on H1N1 so please check it out.
From a technical standpoint, the H1N1 Response Center is a [...]
28 Sep
Amalga Unified Intelligence System
Hospitals use disparate systems to manage different health information. Health care workers may have to go to one system to look up registration and then go to another to look up lab work. It is not uncommon for hospitals to have 15 or more of such systems running. It should come as no surprise that [...]
27 Sep
Mayo Clinic Health Manager
In my previous post, I briefly outlined what we do at the Health Solutions Group (HSG) at Microsoft. There, I also explained how our consumer solutions are built on the HealthVault platform.
Mayo Clinic Health Manager is an online tool that we built on the HealthVault platform that helps you organize health information for you and [...]
26 Sep
Health Solutions Group
Whenever I mention that I work for the Health Solutions Group (HSG) at Microsoft, I find that quite q few people are surprised that our group even exists within the company. But once I break the news, most people are excited to learn about what we do at HSG. So for those of you who are [...]
