Comment Feed for Channel 9 - The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

lenn — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:36:57 GMT

Wow ... it is live, what a milestone for us. Great work guys. Can't wait to see what everyone thinks.

lenn

posted by lenn

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Jeremy W — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:42:19 GMT

Congrats, I love this!

Keep doing these updates with the whole team.

posted by Jeremy W

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

alanhak — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:21:11 GMT

Very cool....

posted by alanhak

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

JulioCampos — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:31:22 GMT

Hi!

Congratulations about this proyect!
Its a great idea........

A group of cool peolple doing a cool web

posted by JulioCampos

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

JoeG — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:02:53 GMT

lenn,

Great idea. Take more cold medicine!

posted by JoeG

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

juliankay — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:47:19 GMT

This whole idea is /great/! Well done guys, I'm really looking forward to what's to come!

posted by juliankay

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

gapman — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:57:03 GMT

Good job guys.

posted by gapman

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

koo9 — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 22:15:43 GMT

good work! but the voice in the video is not loud enough. turn it up. guys.

koo9

posted by koo9

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

JustinD — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 22:38:10 GMT

A good start. Keep it up.

posted by JustinD

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Charles — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 22:42:03 GMT

Thanks for the feedback all. And remember, we made this place for you: a place where you will have a voice that echoes in the halls of Microsoft. Thanks for joining in the conversation.

posted by Charles

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Tolo — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 23:55:08 GMT

Great!

This seems to be the thing we waited for a very long time. I wish you lots of power to keep up with the neverending demands of the developer community

Thanks, and best wishes

Tolo

posted by Tolo

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

compnerd — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 00:06:37 GMT

I'm liking this already.... Keep up the work!

posted by compnerd

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

BruceLee — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 00:54:04 GMT

This is cool and helpful for both sides.

posted by BruceLee

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

JParrish — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 01:24:07 GMT

Looks good.. I'm very happy to see MS using rich media, not just here but such as the .NET show and MSDN T.V. I will be interested in seeing if the community ends up needing any kind of democratic policing measures.. ala /. karma.

posted by JParrish

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

lars — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 01:35:47 GMT

This is going to be great! I can feel it!

Cheers,

/Lars.

posted by lars

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Stuart Celarier — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 02:03:43 GMT

Let me get this straight. You guys are getting paid to do this? Brilliant experiment.

I am going to go buy some cough medicine right away. Rock on.

Hmmm, what's this cool little "sealed" checkbox at the bottom of the Reply form? "Do not allow replies to this post." I'll have to give it a try. 3 - 2 - 1 - post!

Uh, oh, there's a not-so-cool broken graphic "x" from checking the "sealed" box.

posted by Stuart Celarier

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

electricninja — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 04:56:15 GMT

Did you mean cough medicine or Jaegermeister? Sometimes the two are easily confused, especially in practice.

posted by electricninja

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

lenn — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:05:53 GMT

Damn ... I thought it tasted a lot like licorice.

Or maybe it was the codine cough medicine ...

Guess I should drink the whole bottle next time huh?

In all seriousness, thanks for the kind words folks. Glad to see you all here.

Keep the conversation coming.

posted by lenn

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

redvamp128 — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:17:52 GMT

Great Site- a few tweaks here and there - and it will really take off....

Now for some side humor (laugh or don't laugh)

I guess 2 guys didn't get the memo-
It is Black Shirt Day.

posted by redvamp128

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

giasens — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:00:48 GMT

^{cool... =)}

posted by giasens

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

makkerc — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:05:47 GMT

At Last ... my eyes can't take another million Web Pages .. Kep the vids up!!!

Maith an Fir sibh!

posted by makkerc

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

stefana — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:29:25 GMT

congrats, keep it going

posted by stefana

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

dabossuk — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:21:08 GMT

Great site guys! - I missed PDC this year But next year I will make it over!

I too have a fear of flying! yet have to fly a lot! So understand the fears but control them!

Dabossuk

posted by dabossuk

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

WetGoat — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 14:27:29 GMT

Good work guys, It looks like this will be a great success.

posted by WetGoat

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Zeo — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:34:11 GMT

More videos!!! Keep them coming.

posted by Zeo

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Kenneth — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 17:51:42 GMT

Nice work guys and gals(?)

posted by Kenneth

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

tommyswf — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 17:53:08 GMT

nice design interface
well done , i like here

posted by tommyswf

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

object88 — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 18:13:51 GMT

If it's even remotely possible, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE provide links to the videos; don't embed them into the pages. I don't want to install the latest and greatest WM9, and I'm constantly getting asked to download something from Microsoft. Four times on the front page!

If I do install WM9, will I automagically download 4 videos when I come to the front page, or when my local cache expires? Really, I don't need to use the bandwidth, I just have some developer questions I need answered.

Thanks!

posted by object88

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

TKSummer — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 18:16:53 GMT

Hello, thanks for your work guys, your work is highly appreciated! Now, let the community grow
Ciao Torsten

posted by TKSummer

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

object88 — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 18:18:45 GMT

Ah-hah! Works much better in Internet Explorer. Mozilla, not so much. Very sad. (What can I say, I like my options...)

Anyway, to answer my own question, it looks like it's not d/l'ing the whole dang videos. Phew!

Thanks, and off to ask questions!

posted by object88

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

lenn — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 18:51:54 GMT

More videos coming soon. Scoble ... get em up there

We hear you loud and clear on the video delivery and viewing options and are going to evolve this in answer to your feedback. Browser issues will be fixed as well. Yes, we understand choice. Just had to prioritize to ship.

We have a little saying around here ... he who ships gets to ship again.

posted by lenn

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

dotnet — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:14:17 GMT

Great Job.

posted by dotnet

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Lwatson — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 23:37:37 GMT

Very nice to see. While I have always known that the folks at the monster that is Microsoft are in fact folks like myself, that have the same sorts of desires and drives it will definately be nice to get proof and to have a dialog of sorts with those folks. My own situation is so devoid of conversation with the thinkers of the industry I view this as a sort of replacement for that, in many ways a better replacement for that conversation that is lacking now.

Good job on the launch fellows...

posted by Lwatson

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Neo — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 02:16:31 GMT

You guys code
You guys visits TechEd/TechFest to give presentations
You guys blog
Now this latest Channel 9...Unbelievable.

Where in the world you guys get time?

posted by Neo

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Lwatson — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:39:47 GMT

Neo Asked...

Where in the world you guys get time?

Well for one I saw that jeffsand was on at 2:45am eastern. Even if he is in Redmond (Which I believe he is) thats just a touch before midnight.

Thats how they do it they don't need to sleep.

Hey wait a minute...
That means I was up at nearly 3am...
Why aren't I that productive?

posted by Lwatson

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Beredon — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:43:04 GMT

Wow. I can't wait to see where this site goes in the future. Keep up the good work fellas, and keep on that cold medicine - I think you're onto something there.

posted by Beredon

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Lin — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 03:23:29 GMT

Hi all,
Great idea, cool.
Microsoft first in one open mode.

posted by Lin

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

scobleizer — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:48:33 GMT

Sleep? What's that?

posted by scobleizer

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

andot — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:19:12 GMT

Good idea~
I will come here every night from now on.

posted by andot

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

jeffsand — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:50:12 GMT

Lwatson wrote:

Neo Asked...
Well for one I saw that jeffsand was on at 2:45am eastern. Even if he is in Redmond (Which I believe he is) thats just a touch before midnight.

It is not a job it is a lifestyle! :-> To be honest my little one had awoken in the night with a bad cough, after getting her back to sleep, I had to go check out the site and see what was happening.

-Jeff

posted by jeffsand

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Jiří Macich ml — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 00:56:25 GMT

This project is revolution idea. And graphic design is very good.

posted by Jiří Macich ml

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Paulo Gomes — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 21:18:18 GMT

Congratulations, it´s a nice work! Keep it up.

Att.

posted by Paulo Gomes

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

spider — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:36:31 GMT

good,cool

posted by spider

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

spider — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:03:13 GMT

are you ready?

posted by spider

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Akaina — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:58:20 GMT

This is really a viable community. Great job.

posted by Akaina

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

kfzd — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 01:57:07 GMT

that's cool.I love channel9.

posted by kfzd

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

disciple1991 — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:20:48 GMT

I think you're question about what is your greatest fear of failure for this project is valid.

I often ask that question when I'm building a new website or application. It's important to ask "Who cares?" and "Why are we doing this?"

My take is that you want to do this to connect with developers and build relationship. That can't happen in a vacuum. I think that if you connect with developers and build relationship, you'll be way ahead of the game and will in turn build loyalty, trust and respect.

Let the connecting begin...

posted by disciple1991

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Sparker — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:25:16 GMT

Well my brothers, this is a great site. I really see a great opportunity for all of us. This is the time for sharing resources and things that we had always waited for. Please, let's make from this Site a useful tool for this giant community around the world. Thanks 4 this great idea and all you may be sure that this will be in benefit of us.

Douglas Pérez
Systems Engineer
Caracas-Venezuela
sparkersite@hotmail.com
dperez@tecnocomm.net.ve

posted by Sparker

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

PaulM — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 14:48:16 GMT

Nice site guys!

I have joined all the way from Australia, and can't wait to get a few minutes to browse around the site and see what's going on.

Keep up the good work!

Paul

posted by PaulM

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

BOFH — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 02:39:12 GMT

"We don't know if we're actually going to create something and release it, so why tell people about it?"

When I ran a beta site, I used to have 20k+ people a day coming to my site for that exact reason. It's ANY pre-release features - whether or not they'll make it into the final product - which people get the most excited about.

In fact, things like the Redshark program - Codename Neptune and Odyssey - are still some of the most talked about things in the beta scene, excluding Longhorn. Things like Activity Centers and the Sideshow should've been shown off back then, and things like DCE and MIL should be shown off now.

These are the sort of things which keep people up at night; mainly out of frustration that they're being "kept in the dark" about them, somewhat. Not to mention all of the community efforts to unlock these features - DCE being a great case point to look at. Spread across about 4 large community forums there've been close to 7 or 8 individual attempts to unlock and enable DCE in build 4029, 4051, and 4053; the latter two from backporting off the core DLLs from 4029. If MS were to come out and release the info themselves, it would give developers and beta enthusiasts alike a chance to play with these features before WinHEC.

Anyway, that's just my 2 pence.

posted by BOFH

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

chuawenching — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:56:57 GMT

who want a new level of communication between Microsoft and developers -> love to hear this! Thanks.

posted by chuawenching

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Steve411 — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:25:20 GMT

What did you guys use to edit the video? The begining and ending is sweet!

posted by Steve411

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

scobleizer — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 03:07:26 GMT

Steve, the guys over at MSStudio did that for us. I'm actually working on a report of the process of how we do the video. More to come, gotta find out what they used.

posted by scobleizer

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Steve411 — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:49:01 GMT

scobleizer wrote:

Steve, the guys over at MSStudio did that for us. I'm actually working on a report of the process of how we do the video. More to come, gotta find out what they used.

Thanks alot!

posted by Steve411

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Steve411 — Sat, 01 May 2004 04:13:57 GMT

Well, i'am guessing they animated it then made it an MPEG, somehow, then probably compiled the whole thing with movie maker. That would be my guess...

posted by Steve411

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

DebugThis — Mon, 03 May 2004 22:18:06 GMT

This is Awesome. I can't believe we can actually get this kind of perspective from big M. I can only say this is probably the best way to keep Programmer Loyalty.

Keep up the good work guys!

posted by DebugThis

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

guido — Sat, 08 May 2004 05:21:29 GMT

Steve411 wrote:

Well, i'am guessing they animated it then made it an MPEG, somehow, then probably compiled the whole thing with movie maker. That would be my guess...

No need to make it an MPEG or edit it in Movie Maker to create a WMV as a final file.

Anyway, I wonder what program they used to create the opening animation. The motion blur kills all my options

posted by guido

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

cwoodruff — Sat, 08 May 2004 12:14:00 GMT

Thanks guys for the great site. Pleasure to find it and have another place to get the vibe!!

posted by cwoodruff

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

phunky_avocado — Fri, 21 May 2004 19:20:52 GMT

Sounds good. More power to you.

posted by phunky_avocado

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

keyosuke — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:29:09 GMT

Really nice concept guys. Keep up the good work. This is definately the place for me.

posted by keyosuke

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Stretchr — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:40:59 GMT

What a GREAT IDEA! Kudos to MS as well for not going corporate and shutting it down automatically!

posted by Stretchr

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

photon — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:46:27 GMT

Great idea and site!!!

I just hope that this site doesn't fall under the pressure of one of Microsoft's departments which is looking for a new way to promote and control what this small community already sees and hears.

Order a round of Cough Medicine for everyone... It couldn't hurt.

posted by photon

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Vija_y2000 — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:19:19 GMT

photon wrote:

Great idea and site!!!

U guys R gr8.Doin a fine job for us .Keep goinguys

.

posted by Vija_y2000

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Ment0 — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:29:06 GMT

lenn wrote:

Wow ... it is live, what a milestone for us. Great work guys. Can't wait to see what everyone thinks.

lenn

I don’t know what I think, but I hope that this Channel9 ride is the beginning of something beyond most imagination.

Good luck, have fun with this...

[DA-dk]Brian

posted by Ment0

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

SiR_CharLZ — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 03:13:01 GMT

Nice site here. Love all the pics, videos and information. Kinda demystifies the MS culture for the rest of us.

/tips hat

--Charlz

posted by SiR_CharLZ

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

FlamELorD — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 06:53:19 GMT

dudes cant see the videos!!! what do i need??

posted by FlamELorD

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

OzAsh — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 09:40:56 GMT

Guys - This was a fantastic idea, especially for someone from Australia, like me. I'm on the other side of the world and just from this, it brings you to me... WOW (maybe we need to call it 'No More Gaps' (I hope that they sell that in the US??)

Would be great if it could be two-way, like a confrenece call, having and seeing other viewers being streamed back out as well. Could be kewl for you / us to see what others are doing??

I'm over-flowin' with things that would be kewl for you guys to cover, and I haven't had any couch mixture..
Very kewl.

posted by OzAsh

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

krislog — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 17:39:54 GMT

Great Idea guys.

Interesting.

posted by krislog

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

daniael — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 04:51:05 GMT

hi there,

i'm a pilot too... not flying a 747 like you guys, but still...

now, that you mentioned about us expressing our wishes in the open, i will send you my first one...

i would like to know how could a compiler engineer (obviously not working for Microsoft) have access to (let's say, something cool like) Phoenix source code (or at least interfaces), under nda, at evening time. is this possible? does one have to sign an nda for that? does one have to get more rain for something like that to happen? the question is as simple as the purpose (getting closer to the common backend, you can hook more frontends into Phoenix, in a completely open and proactive manner...) which should sound good to you too... more supported languages, more outstanding tools, healthier the platform, etc...

ps
i heard alot of voices like "oh, this is cool" or "this rocks"... but i am trying to see if this site goes beyond having a nice chit-chat with happy passangers my 7 years from Home sound more like "hey, we have work to do!" so... can we do it or not... // just my 2c...

regards,
daniel

posted by daniael

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

scobleizer — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 05:31:13 GMT

Daniel,

Not sure what you mean? Who do you believe has access to Phoenix's source code?

Or, you asking for such access? Kang Su Gatlin can answer that, since he's on the compiler team.

posted by scobleizer

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

veeru — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 03:27:32 GMT

hey guys Something exciting and new...

There is a nice series of Adds going on india on pepsi on 5 ....

Mahabartha (An indian Epic) talks about Five Padvas a lot...

So I think you 5 gonna write new Epic for teh whole Tech world

We all will rock together....

Regards

Veeru

posted by veeru

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

nishant — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:44:53 GMT

I am not able to watch the video!
(or any other video on this site. for that matter!)

It asks for my username and password while connecting to wm.microsoft.com!
My Login/password doesnt work here!

Any guest login password available????

posted by nishant

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

jabby99 — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:40:27 GMT

good!guys,I like it ,HOHO!

posted by jabby99

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

bestwerx — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:08:35 GMT

Very nice. I have been looking for something like this!

posted by bestwerx

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

hammadsaeed — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:19:07 GMT

Hi,

First of all I want to congratulate you guys for this great job.

I also want to create a wiki and in this regard I need the help and suggestions of someone who have done all such stuff. Can you please tell me that what are the prerequisits for starting a wiki site.

And which web programming languages' expertise is required for developing this wiki. Or is it something like an application which is running at the back end of these web pages? If I can get the answers of my questions then I will be grateful to you guys.

Thanking you in advance.
Hope i can get a positive reply from your end....

Regards,

Hammad Saeed.

posted by hammadsaeed

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

sungwapa — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:15:42 GMT

awesome work gang...and your 'going public', great !

Just had to stop in & say hi..."Hi"

later-T Mike-aka:sungwapa

posted by sungwapa

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Keskos — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:48:21 GMT

Make this video sticky so everybody see it.

posted by Keskos

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

amitbarde — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:13:29 GMT

Nice job guys !! Keep up the good work.

posted by amitbarde

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

shreyasonline — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:33:58 GMT

Thats good!

posted by shreyasonline

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Greater Monster — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:28:38 GMT

This is great. I've always asked myself a bit what the Microsoft workforce was about, who they were and so forth. So here it is.

I hope other parts of Microsoft and other companies follow this initiative.

btw a preview option before posting would be nice (or is it there and I am too dense to find it, which is entirely possible )

posted by Greater Monster

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Vigor — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:49:18 GMT

great technology, nice teaming and networking, small world

posted by Vigor

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

dugsnake — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:17:51 GMT

Nice forums. Nice page. Is this custom made or is it using Sharepoint? Is it available for download? I'm looking for an alternative for phpBB. I tried Snitz forums, but didn't care for it too much.

Anyways, nice site.

nm...I should have looked at the bottom.

http://www.communityserver.org/

posted by dugsnake

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

byron — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:54:51 GMT

The Channel 9 Team wrote:

Welcome to Channel 9. We are five guys at Microsoft who want a new level of communication between Microsoft and developers. We believe that we will all benefit from a little dialogue these days. This is our first attempt to move beyond the newsgroup, the blog, and the press release to talk with each other, human to human.

Want to know more?

Please read our Channel 9 Doctrine or watch the video below to learn more.

- The Channel 9 Team

I Would like to meet you guys one day i think what youre doing is great,keep up the great work!

posted by byron

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

garbagedump — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:14:02 GMT

You guys SUCK!

Naw... just kidding, great site guys.

Oh and another thing: you SUCK!

Oh wait one more thing... them penguins are some funny lookin birds.

posted by garbagedump

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

fyasar — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:19:16 GMT

Its a very cool idea.

Fyasar

posted by fyasar

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Bill-Gates — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:26:15 GMT

yea right!!!

posted by Bill-Gates

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Bydia — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:28:59 GMT

Great web, I really enjoy the videos. Been downloading them and watching them on my T.V.

Request: Could you prepend a serial # to the names of the videos? That way it would be easier to know which ones I've downloaded and which ones I have yet to download. As for now, it's hit and miss. Thanks in advance,

Bydia

posted by Bydia

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

NeoTOM — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:41:45 GMT

Hey, nothing I love more than Microsoft employee web pages. Johnathan Kay rules.

Whoa, you did all this with Community Server Forums? :O Every day I want my own page more and more.

posted by NeoTOM

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

alejandroperezacosta — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:15:47 GMT

This is the best communications channel to keep developers motivated.

I came from the Borland products and I saw sadly how his desktop development market is continuously smashed by MS.

I really enjoyed such Borland times, but since I started to work with MS Development Tools I began to earn a better salary.

However my wish for Borland is they keep his leadership on ALM and Java development..

posted by alejandroperezacosta

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Intrigued — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:19:06 GMT

This really brought into focus, for me, what Channel9 is all about.

To me, it is getting easier to shine as a company if you just focus on the support of your product on the various levels that are available (take Channel9 for instance).

Why?

I believe so because I see more and more companies (very apparent in the "Brick-and-Mortar" landscape) falling behind on customer support.

This happened recently with a product I bought and posted a message (polite, to the point) about a feature that was to be added in (my suggestion). The developer has yet to respond to my post. And he is slow to respond on other posts.

This is just one example in an endless cycle of poor customer support, as far as I am concerned.

So, to come full-circle... why I believe it is easier to shine as a company now-a-days? Start by genuinely caring (again?) about your customers.

Just think, it's pretty dang hard for the average, decent person to bad-mouthed a company if they are being treated constantly as a team member.

I enjoyed this video and appreciate what you five guys are setting out to accomplish!

(clap, clap)

posted by Intrigued

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Charles — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:22:39 GMT

Thank you, Intrigued. We will continue to make this place a safe, fun, educational and useful home for our most valuable resource: our customers.

Charles

posted by Charles

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

amalynathan — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:32:44 GMT

yes

posted by amalynathan

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

AMOS — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:17:31 GMT

Friends of the MSDN Canal 9,

Would like to suggest that yours places legends (Spanish). So that in the ones of Latin America let us can have access to the dialogues in the videos. The English is very fast in videos .

I am certain of that this resource will be of great important for all with loves technology and the technologies of the Microsoft.
Sory, but my English is very bad. The important one is to participate is not same?

A big hug for all,

Antonio Marcos
Piauí-Brazil

posted by AMOS

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

PrasadPapudesi — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:05:15 GMT

Good work guys. Keep it up.

Prasad Papudesi

posted by PrasadPapudesi

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Xenon101 — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:49:58 GMT

Great idea! Also just had to say, love the little Microsoft employee buttons! Don't think I've ever seen anything like this with corporation employees actually talking to everyone on a public site! It's great

posted by Xenon101

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

meetshashank@hotmail.com — Tue, 03 May 2005 11:43:46 GMT

PaulM wrote:

Nice site guys!

I have joined all the way from Australia, and can't wait to get a few minutes to browse around the site and see what's going on.

Keep up the good work!

Paul

posted by meetshashank@hotmail.com

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

bern — Fri, 13 May 2005 12:41:28 GMT

Good work. I entered here the first once and it seems me that this place includes a lot of interesting materials, particularly for a Video. It will be better if the my opinion will encourage you to update this website very often.

Thanks a lot.
Bern
Poland

posted by bern

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Timer — Fri, 20 May 2005 13:43:54 GMT

Wonderful!

posted by Timer

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

arun_coorg — Thu, 26 May 2005 23:39:02 GMT

Hi,

Wonderful ! Great work . Great effort . I am in love with this.

Arun

posted by arun_coorg

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

brian8480 — Sun, 29 May 2005 16:23:01 GMT

I really like this. My initial take on Channel 9 is that it's a very innovative step in company/partner/customer communication. Partner in that scenario would be the average developer looking to learn about what's going to be hot in the coming months ahead that would have otherwise not crossed his radar.

I've read on blogs and other posts that Scoble (sorry if I misspelled it) is arrogant or has an inflated ego. After seeing this I want to state that I completely disagree. You all seem like nice guys.

In this video, you all seem to be soliciting requests for content so, I will go ahead and make mine here. I am an Enterprise Java developer with some distant (and rapidly fading) experience in Linux and embedded development. I find the windows (com, .net, win32, mfc, Longhorn (especially longhorn)) platform to be both intrigueing and exceptionally productive when I am playing around with Visual Studio. I would like to see a walkthrough of an enterprise web application designed in .NET/VS. This could be done perhaps as both a tutorial (which, as far as I can tell, would be very non-standard for c9) and, as a product showcase for new features in Whidbey.

Also, I think it might work well if you where to expand the channel-9 concept or, a variation of the concept to other aspects of the MSDN community. My initial thought is that you could release short 'over-the-shoulder' videos of Microsoft Developers building intro/adv apps with the new technology releases. I think the timing for this is good as well. As far as I can tell, Microsoft's rate of developer tools and technology releases (such as Avalon CTP and WSE 2.0) have increased in the last 6 months or so and, I would imagine the rate of acceleration is only going to continue increasing as the "Longhorn Wave" approaches(?). A short video showing how to build a quick-and-dirty app with the the associated release would go a long way I think in reducing learning curves and, ultimately making the releases more accessible to a wider audience of developers.

Either way, I definately think Microsoft has hit a home-run with Channel-9. This helps developers feel a sense of connectivity with individuals at Microsoft and increases familiarization with new products and features in a fun and informative way. Thank you for making these videos.

Cheers,

Brian A.

posted by brian8480

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

shimail — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:49:45 GMT

Great Work and Best Wishes

posted by shimail

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

peterwillcn — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:49:12 GMT

hi!
cool ...cool....very cool.. good work !
come on! funny! i'd like !
yeah! Go..............................

posted by peterwillcn

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

geniusleft — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:41:41 GMT

good jobs!

posted by geniusleft

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

yanchaowang — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:09:30 GMT

Really cool!!!

posted by yanchaowang

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

mobilophile — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 06:40:26 GMT

Gentlemen,
I watched several of your videos.

The feedback I have for you guys is in most of the videos, the guy who asks the question is not always audible. One thing though his laugh resonates even after the video.

I have recently sent my resume for MS MED group and am waiting. I saw a couple of videos on Windows+Mobile category.

Is there any video or anything in the pipeline that is being planned to show case the MED group's developments OR projects being worked on?

The one video where Ori showed/introduced VS team during crunch mode was exciting. The coolest part was the automation testing/download of firmware on all those devices. I do that here as well, but not on that scale. Pretty coool.
Thanks

posted by mobilophile

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

pvipetar10 — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:40:21 GMT

Hello, Petar from Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia:P

posted by pvipetar10

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

elxany — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:45:08 GMT

Hi,

I have experiencing the following problem when I try to watch/download the videos from your site. I get the following error message on my browser:

ERROR

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/9/7/f9738de8-383b-47b6-8c27-53325df65ec2/vs_sdk_2006.wmv

The following error was encountered:

* Access Denied.

Please, help me with that issue.

ps: I am trying to access http://channel9.msdn.com from Baku/Azerbaijan with an ip number 200.200.211.89

Thank you,
Elkhan Yusubov

email: elxany@hotmail.com, elxan_y@yahoo.com

posted by elxany

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

A.Rippert — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:27:47 GMT

Hi,

this is a really great Idea.
I like the videos you guys create.
It really helps me to stay up to date and to see what Microsoft is doing at the moment.
It is also great that you inform about a lot of minor topics. It is often times difficult to find information about those somewhere else.
Go on like that!

posted by A.Rippert

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

Charles — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:48:25 GMT

Thanks for the kind words! We will indeed keep on truckin'.

posted by Charles

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

saurabhnijhawan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:11:54 GMT

Great Job Guyz!

posted by saurabhnijhawan

Re: The 9 Guys - Who We Are

perceiving_the_world — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:06:22 GMT

It's great step!

posted by perceiving_the_world