October 2007 Archives

Microsoft has an opening for a text/font Program Manager in the Windows International team's font technology group, which drives language and typography support in Windows. It's a relatively senior position, "to figure out Uniscribe, RichEdit, and other text infrastructure pieces."

Here is the job description. It sounds pretty cool.

It's funny, "program manager" means different things in different companies. At Microsoft it means somebody who has deep technical understanding of the area, and makes functional decisions and writes specs for engineering. Adobe's closest equivalent would be "product manager" I think.

I recently moved to a new laptop, which reminded me of a painful issue as I migrated my data and fonts and reinstalled my applications. Historically, Windows font management has well, sucked. How, why, and can it be improved? Recent developments offer some hope for the future. Here's a brief rant on what font management is, how it has fallen down on Windows, some speculation on why, comments on recent improvements, and a batch of specific feature requests.