On Friday I was at an invigorating talk given by a senior Microsoft employee who went on and on about the importance of blogs and I must admit I felt a bit guilty that I hadn’t been blogging much recently so it’s time to turn that around.

To start, let me tell you about what I work on… As you know I’m a program manager on the Media Center team in eHome. This means I am the ‘PM owner’ for a number of areas. While I didn’t necessarily own these areas in Media Center 2005 I’ll indicate what concrete features in that version that I’m now responsible for moving forward:

• Movies - TV Movies Portal
• DVD - DVD playback user experience
• Settings - Someone has to be the gate keeper and keep the other PMs from adding needless settings
• Accessibility - How MCE works with a screen reader and for people with limited vision
• Connecting to other PCs and content servers in the home - The ‘Media Discovery’ modules invoked through the context menu in Music, Pictures and Videos
• Communications - 10′ Messenger and Caller ID
• Text input - The control box as well as our IMEs
• TweakMCE powertoy

And a few more areas that you will find out about soon enough :).