Rory Meets Da Team
- Posted: Oct 27, 2006 at 3:43 PM
- 30,229 Views
- 54 Comments
Download
How do I download the videos?
- To download, right click the file type you would like and pick “Save target as…” or “Save link as…”
Why should I download videos from Channel9?
- It's an easy way to save the videos you like locally.
- You can save the videos in order to watch them offline.
- If all you want is to hear the audio, you can download the MP3!
Which version should I choose?
- If you want to view the video on your PC, Xbox or Media Center, download the High Quality WMV file (this is the highest quality version we have available).
- If you'd like a lower bitrate version, to reduce the download time or cost, then choose the Medium Quality WMV file.
- If you have a Zune, WP7, iPhone, iPad, or iPod device, choose the low or medium MP4 file.
- If you just want to hear the audio of the video, choose the MP3 file.
Right click “Save as…”
- Mid Quality WMV (Lo-band, Mobile)
- WMV (WMV Video)
Today we took Rory around to meet some of the folks that he's already met, but we decided to do it again on camera just for fun (and of course we film him meeting folks he hasn't actually met like our VP Sanjay Parthasarathy...)
As always, this is a very random tour. It starts off slow, has some interesting moments (where you may find yourself asking "uhm, why am I watching this?"), but all and all provides a very humanistic view of our great extended team of evangelists, program managers, developers and an executive or two. And we only scratched the surface. You will meet more of the people who work around here in subsequent videos (which will be very interesting, of course).
Tune in.
As always, this is a very random tour. It starts off slow, has some interesting moments (where you may find yourself asking "uhm, why am I watching this?"), but all and all provides a very humanistic view of our great extended team of evangelists, program managers, developers and an executive or two. And we only scratched the surface. You will meet more of the people who work around here in subsequent videos (which will be very interesting, of course).
Tune in.
Comments Closed
Comments have been closed since this content was published more than 30 days ago, but if you'd like to continue the conversation,
please create a new thread in our Forums,
or
Contact Us and let us know.
Follow the Discussion
Good to hear so many people mentioning WPF/E - it had all gone quiet. Hopefully a video on WPF/E to follow?
Introducing, Rory, the Oscar Levant, of Channel 9.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Levant
May I have a banana split please?
He has taken over the position of "youngest" on the team.
Why? Cuz every day's a party? ok, it really isn't...not like in the video anyway...
Ok so now lets all form a great big groop hug with rory in the center- lots of wet / mayby dirty / not sanitised hands.
Oh dread....
Ok JK Rory!
looking fwd to seeing more !
Welcome to C9 Rory
Yeah. why am I watching this?
Who is Rory and why do I care?
Killed this after 5 min.
Excellent
OK... This video is as much about the people Rory is introducing himself to (the team) as it is about Rory (the new team member).
I think that comparing me to a neurotic hypochondriac pianist drug addict who repeatedly got kicked off the air is the nicest thing you've ever said about me, Raymond.
Thanks
I'm scared to ask him how old he is. I'm afraid he's one of these child-genius people who do nothing in life but make older, dumber people feel insecure.
Not that Sampy does that to me.
But he would...
...if I asked him how old he was.
Seriously... I want one of those suits.
I hope you'll be pleased.
I've been recording, but haven't put anything up yet (I'm learning about the rather involved process of getting content OK'd, as well as getting it online).
I have stuff on XNA, Windows Mobile, XP Embedded, and more in the pipeline.
A bunch more stuff scheduled to shoot next week.
I also have a weekly show I'm going to be doing. Editing the first episode now. The format is good - I think the show's going to be a lot of fun (especially for those of us who hang out in the Coffeehouse - I think of it as being a video version of the Coffeehouse).
It'll be good. Good times. And stuff.
Becuase you have nothing better to do?
Because you tripped and fell and your forehead hit the keyboard and it caused the video to play?
Because the lilliputians tied you down and forced you to?
Or... because you willingly clicked on a link and opted to watch the video out of your own free will?
Not sure which one of these is the most likely.
I'm Rory, and I don't know why you care. Perhaps you could expound on the subject a little - give us a clue...
You missed the party.
Great feedback. Thanks!
. . . Welcome aboard!
-Jr
Im sorry. Double post [C]
And.. Damn, Sampy is tall :O
When Rory and sampy was on the same picture, damn!
Very nice video, you get to see more then just the C9 team - lovely job guys!
Im looking forward to you stuff on XNA!
I just changed my daughter's nappy and got poo under my fingernails.
You'll just have to resign yourself to being an evolutionary dead end.
Herbie
Shame, You're 6 years too late.
I'll never look at chocolate scrapings under my fingernails the same way again. Thank you for the lifelong trauma.
Sorry, I won't go into the vomit , the snot and the pee in case it tips you over the edge.
Somehow it doesn't seem as bad as it should then it's from your own children -- hormones are a wonderful thing sometimes.
Herbie
Fun video! I've been on Channel9 since end of 2005 but finally created a loginID. This place never fails to teach me something new.
This has probably been asked a million times but how can I get a few of those Channel9 guys for the office?
Cheers,
Bill
Keep using the hand lotion and lip balm and wear the suit or you will end looking like Oscar:
Twice... I need to watch it to the end... I have only seen the first few minutes.
I think that has been done already, at one time he was traveling almost non-stop and was *VERY* sick for a while, he used to do DNR from airport-terminals cuase that was the only time he had.
at least this is what I recall from a while back...
the big guy in the beginning is pretty damn heavy (had to help move it upstairs a while back). I believe it was originally used at PDC '05.
Did you like the upside down C9 head in Sampy's office?
Hey Rory. Hope your having good time on the team. I would like to see:
1) Some more deep WF. Threading, multi-clients, passing parms and events to WF. Maybe async patterns to-from the UI.
2) Vista core new stuff summary. New sync primitives, core base, new APIs, etc.
3) More ADO.vNext and Sql Next and Vista transaction file system. What/how WinFS tech moved to vNext and Sql.
4) More new deep tcp stack and winsock stuff and high client server patterns.
5) Event-based async pattern in 2.0. Other new async patterns. Whats new in sync handles - managed/unmanaged. 64 wait handle limit - how its implemented, what is next?
6) Gotta have more cow bell...
Thanks.
Please explain the meaning of "needing more cow bell"?
C
Been channel nin' for years but never posted... but i just had to agree...
What this needs.... is more cow bell!
More Cowbell!
http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=3b4fe7ce-5e04-4ebd-90df-a1f3a5ab095a
I think I think I get it.
C
Oh Charles, you poor sheltered boy... we'll have to find you some video reference material for this
Also, why didn't they give Rory the biggest office and his own foxxy assistant?
Are you saying I'm not foxy enough? [C] I guess I'm not his assistant either, so nevermind.
Cmon guys, Rory, Erik, i do anything please send me a C9Guy please, please. You have a lot of them:
...and we still don't know what Charles looks like...
I imagine him as his avatar.
I hate to see Channel9 decline into this kind of mindless interviews.
How about a brief synopsys of who Rory is and why I want to watch the video. Instead the first 10 min was just random nonsense.
Let the channel 10 or On10 or whatever it is called do the cute stuff.
Please, Please, please do not let channel9 become some cute little video posting place.
It was a Friday. We were having some fun... Humans work at Microsoft. They're those things you see walking around in the halls and even in the Cafeterias consuming food...
At any rate, C9 will continue to bring the world an unfiltered look at the people and the technology they create. That's what we have always done. Rory will add some new ingredients to the C9 Stew which will add more flavor. We wanted to take a random tour around the group to introduce Niners to the folks who work on our extended team as well as get to know Rory a little better.
Technology and People will continue to be the focus for C9... We reserve the right to have a little light-hearted fun once and a while.
C
Good looking offices there Rory and you all must have good hairstylists.
You are right about the hand cleaner machines compared to paper, and I have to wonder how edible those lotions are you use on your hands.
Some lotions like sunscreens, smell nice but taste grotesque.
What's the nutritional value of petroleum jelly in lip balm and what if any effects could that crude byproduct have on arteries.
Remove this comment
Remove this thread
close