Press
Interviews, podcasts, and coverage. Mostly about Microsoft Scout and the team building it.
Coverage
- OpenClaw goes enterprise with Microsoft Scout A long conversation with Jakob Werner about building an always-on, enterprise-secure personal agent: memory, security tradeoffs, and how the team works.
- How Microsoft is bringing OpenClaw to the masses On Autopilots, the Frontier release of Scout, and why I think the skeptics and I are looking at different experiments.
- Microsoft's OpenClaw team takes on the personal assistant challenge The first detailed look at Project Lobster, ClawPilot, and what we were trying to prove out inside the company.
- Microsoft Plots New Copilot Features Inspired by OpenClaw Where the "Ocean 11" team name first showed up in print.
- Tech Moves: Omar Shahine takes on a new role leading personal assistants for Microsoft 365 The role change itself, after nearly three decades at Microsoft.
Podcasts
- 022 — Omar Shahine, Microsoft CVP of OpenClaw + Microsoft 365 Fifty minutes on my tech origins, the career pivot, and what agents actually change. Also on Apple Podcasts.
- Omar Shahine, CVP of Product at Microsoft The long version of how I got into tech at all. I wanted to be a doctor, and computers were just the hobby that wouldn't go away.
Writing
- Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent The launch post. Autopilots as a new category, and what it took to make one enterprise-ready.
- Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Content Services Platforms
- Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Forrester Wave for Content Platforms
- Microsoft 365 is the smartest place to store your content
- New SkyDrive photo timeline and uploads 2x faster From the SkyDrive days, credited as Group Program Manager, SkyDrive.com. The full run is on my Microsoft 365 Blog author page.
- Lobster Got Hired How a weekend project became a career pivot.
Patents
Nineteen granted US patents, from Hotmail and Outlook.com through SharePoint and OneDrive.
- External sharing with improved security
- Recommending actions based on context
- Email confirmation page for social network notifications
- Information aggregation service
- Computing system for monetizing calendar applications
- Progressively discovering and integrating services
- Event highlighting and differentiation view
- Automatic non-junk message list inclusion
- Inbox with focused messages according to categories
- Leveraging communications to identify social network friends
- Spell checking in network browser based applications
- Delivery confirmation for e-mail
- Searching based on messages
- Heuristic determination of user origin
- Centralized alert and notifications repository, manager, and viewer
- Systems and methods for processing message attachments
- Virtual PC printer driver
- System and process for dynamically displaying prioritized data objects
- System and process for generating a dynamically adjustable toolbar