Thanks for the intro, Vikram!  I’m the new marketing communications manager for the Machine Translation team in MSR, and I’m really excited to be a part of the team!  I’m looking forward to sharing some of the great new improvements to the service that the team is working on, as well as hearing comments from the readers of this blog.  

A little background on me: I’m a former techie who’s been in the marketing world for the past 4 years (specifically working with Microsoft’s OEM partners).  Before that I was in grad school for Computer Science at the University of Florida.  I’m happy to be working closely with developers again, especially on such a cool product. 

As Vikram mentioned, I’m going to start blogging more regularly on behalf of the team.  Expect monthly posts, as well as one-off posts as new things come up that I want to share with you. 

We have a lot of catching up to do in terms of features that have gone live in the past few months, so expect a busy week of blogging!  Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

-Lane