Jason Buffington .com

  • I am going to miss HD DVD

    Farewell friend — we hardly knew ye. Yes, with the news that Toshiba is pulling out and Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the HD-DVD player add-on for Xbox360, the format war is over. And that is a good thing. While we early adopters may have had to bet on two horses, mainstream consumers…

  • My Xbox 360 has its own blog

    Everybody is blogging. I’ve been blogging myself (here) at Microsoft for almost a year — with my sincere thanks to all of you who read this. Recently, I started contributing to some larger blogs within Microsoft, including: SYSTEM CENTER – the family of management products from Microsoft that DPM is part of WINDOWS SERVER –…

  • Go make a Snowflake – and other Christmas gadgets worth checking out

    I love the Internet gadgets that come out around the holidays.  My favorite so far has to be the "Go Elf Yourself" from OfficeMax… where you insert your own headshots on little elf bodies and they dance for you.  It will literally have you rolling on the floor laughing. Here are my three kids, elf’d.…