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I was a bit reticent when asked, but we have a number of IT professionals who work in cross-platform situations who might benefit from this. As noted below there is a software gratuity. From: Eric Clausen <ericc at winse.microsoft.com> Usability Research: Project Manager Windows Usability in Boston (Aug. 22nd - 29th) Microsoft's Windows Server team will be conducting research in the Boston region August 22nd through the 29th. The team would like to meet with IT Professionals at their workplace to observe the types of tasks they typically do in a number of areas including: Supporting users, Managing Clients, Managing their Network, Managing their servers, Monitoring their environment, Managing storage and backup, Managing their Printers and Print Servers, and Managing the security of their IT Environment. Their goal is to create a better model of customers from the perspective of the work they do and the goals they are trying to achieve; the 'Customer Model'. This model will then be used to set user specific goals with regard to product deliverables for teams across Windows Server product line, and validate features against real world scenarios. This research will contribute to all Windows Server Product development by understanding how to better support the way organizations think about their work and perform their work with the tools they have today These efforts will also unify its management tools by providing insight in to the way IT Professionals integrate tasks now or would like to better integrate tasks and help identify how to make IT Management tools work more effectively to help IT Professionals be more productive This is a unique opportunity to help identify opportunities to innovate products to better support work IT Management practice. All participants selected for this research will also receive a retail software selection as a gratuity. For more information contact Eric Clausen (ericc at microsoft.com) for details. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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