What I work on
Since some of you were interested to find out I owned movies and DVD. I should disclose the other features I own.
So I am the program manager for the following features in Media Center:
- Accessibility support - High contrast skins, MSAA,…
- Caller ID
- DVD playback UI
- LUA - Limited User Account interaction with MCE
- Media Discovery - How do you discover local media? Networked media? How does Media Center fit into your home networking setup?
- Messenger - And other communication/sharing scenarios
- Movies - Movies Portal, My DVDs, DVD changer connectivity, integration with VOD partners like Movielink
- Parental Controls
- Settings - So exciting.
- Text input/IME - How do you enter text in Media Center? How do you triple tap in other countries?
- TweakMCE - Power toy that gets 10,000+ downloads a month
(There are one or two other areas that should be on that list but I don’t want to get your hopes up for Vista.)
Each of those features has a feature team made up of a developer, a tester, a designer, a usability engineer, a product planner, a user assistance person, and finally a program manager. As the program manager for those feature teams I drive the vision around the feature and we work together to pitch ideas to the larger team, get them approved, then get them built, tested and finally shipped.
Hi Matt,
Now that I can see that you own “Text input” - you should consider adding T9. And while you are at it, make sure that we can call the T9 feature from the window.external.MediaCenter object ;-)
This would improve options for text message services, both Messenger and add-on software for e-mail.
Regards,
Brian
We investigated adding T9 support. However, because of licensing costs and changes required to our Input Method Editor model you likely won’t see this support added soon.