Channel 9 - Discussions by Bobinho http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by Bobinho http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions en Wed, 22 May 2013 14:21:17 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 14:21:17 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - WPF for Word Processor Interesting Andy.

We want to build a word processor that is aimed specifically at academics. We all come from a Mac dev background but we think there is a real need for a credible alternative to Word on the Windows platform.

If WPF and .NET can help us achieve our aims then so much the better. It seems very exciting, but is as yet unproven for the kind of work I'm talking about.

We're getting a feel for all the different technologies on Windows so we're ruling nothing in or out at this stage.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/253584-WPF-for-Word-Processor/17cd27fa3ab04e49b3939dec006b3963#17cd27fa3ab04e49b3939dec006b3963 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:21:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/253584-WPF-for-Word-Processor/17cd27fa3ab04e49b3939dec006b3963#17cd27fa3ab04e49b3939dec006b3963 Bobinho 27 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - WPF for Word Processor Alas, I share your cynicism. Wink

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/253584-WPF-for-Word-Processor/4d839056e6724ecfa3159dec006b38e0#4d839056e6724ecfa3159dec006b38e0 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:34:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/253584-WPF-for-Word-Processor/4d839056e6724ecfa3159dec006b38e0#4d839056e6724ecfa3159dec006b38e0 Bobinho 27 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - WPF for Word Processor Is WPF robust enough to allow me to build a full-featured* text engine on top of it? Or would I have to roll my own?

* Incorporating footnotes, endnotes, flow document support across long documents, advanced formatting, etc.etc.

Thanks in advance for any advice you may have.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/253584-WPF-for-Word-Processor/253584#253584 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:10:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/253584-WPF-for-Word-Processor/253584#253584 Bobinho 27 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Why Microsoft can't compete with Apple
brian.shapiro wrote:
 well i wonder if i cringely even really fully knows about or understands microsofts media center strategy


I'm not fully sure I do Brian. I mean I absolutely love the products, and they work beautifully together but remain unsure as to Microsoft's strategy in light of the You Tube and iTunes phenomena.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/232486-Why-Microsoft-cant-compete-with-Apple/84d2b03bb439460f9d799deb011caa0d#84d2b03bb439460f9d799deb011caa0d Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:31:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/232486-Why-Microsoft-cant-compete-with-Apple/84d2b03bb439460f9d799deb011caa0d#84d2b03bb439460f9d799deb011caa0d Bobinho 32 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Why Microsoft can't compete with Apple Cringely has more of his mutterings as to what Apple is up to with their iTV initiative. For him, it is video conferencing on an Apple HD TV (with built-in iSight). He further speculates that Apple will remotely integrate iLife to the TV in your living room.

But it is this paragraph jumped out at me (as both a Mac and media center/Xbox 360 user).

"What has to be especially satisfying about this plan for Apple is that there is literally no response even possible from its greatest competitor -- Microsoft. The level of technical sophistication and application integration required to make this work is beyond Microsoft within the next year or five years from now. So where Windows Vista will bring a variety of older Apple OS features to the PC desktop, Apple's Leopard will go far past the desktop metaphor altogether and introduce friggin' TELEPORTATION."

We know Cringely hates Microsoft. But is this a reasonable summation of the relative positions of the two companies or evidence of Cringely's unwitting self-parody? I'm not quite sure what to think. I suppose he could be right.

What do niners think?

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060922.html

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I hope this will change in Vista. WPF/XAML is a huge step in the right direction  (and a big investment for MS) and I am currently reading through Petzold's WPF book whilst working on a font manager application for Vista. I am deeply impressed by the technology, but I fear that it will go largely ignored by Windows developers.

We'll see.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/226575-Why-Microsoft-cant-replace-all-the-icons-in-Windows/e27138f997074321a9859dec000d30bb#e27138f997074321a9859dec000d30bb Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:09:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/226575-Why-Microsoft-cant-replace-all-the-icons-in-Windows/e27138f997074321a9859dec000d30bb#e27138f997074321a9859dec000d30bb Bobinho 32 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Why Microsoft can't replace all the icons in Windows
blowdart wrote:

Bobinho wrote: The problem is that the Windows community couldn't care less about such "trivialities" as icon design. Here's the attitude... "I mean if the app works, it works. Who (apart from gays and women) cares what it looks like, right?" Things are VERY different in the dysfunctional Mac community. There are flame wars over icon design in Mac lal la land. Sure Mac zealots are noxious and Mac users can be unbearably smug (I am one) but they CARE about this stuff. It matters to them. It doesn't matter to Microsofties. Otherwise all the icons would be replaced. No excuses. There should be zero tolerance of Microsoft laziness. As that slimeball Steve Jobs once said, "Microsoft has absolutely no taste" He was right.


But the fact that you get worked up, then descend into stupid sterotypes proves that you do care about such trivialities, thus negating your whole aguement.

You are confusing the Windows "community" with the internal MS developers, or more likely the managers who overruled any sensible decision to replace them


WTF are you talking about?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/226575-Why-Microsoft-cant-replace-all-the-icons-in-Windows/9e61c2ffca044af9a9f79dec000d308b#9e61c2ffca044af9a9f79dec000d308b Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:57:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/226575-Why-Microsoft-cant-replace-all-the-icons-in-Windows/9e61c2ffca044af9a9f79dec000d308b#9e61c2ffca044af9a9f79dec000d308b Bobinho 32 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Why Microsoft can't replace all the icons in Windows The problem is that the Windows community couldn't care less about such "trivialities" as icon design. Here's the attitude... "I mean if the app works, it works. Who (apart from gays and women) cares what it looks like, right?" Things are VERY different in the dysfunctional Mac community. There are flame wars over icon design in Mac lal la land. Sure Mac zealots are noxious and Mac users can be unbearably smug (I am one) but they CARE about this stuff. It matters to them. It doesn't matter to Microsofties. Otherwise all the icons would be replaced. No excuses. There should be zero tolerance of Microsoft laziness. As that slimeball Steve Jobs once said, "Microsoft has absolutely no taste" He was right.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/226575-Why-Microsoft-cant-replace-all-the-icons-in-Windows/2698f72f43214a439d4b9dec000d2fee#2698f72f43214a439d4b9dec000d2fee Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:33:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/226575-Why-Microsoft-cant-replace-all-the-icons-in-Windows/2698f72f43214a439d4b9dec000d2fee#2698f72f43214a439d4b9dec000d2fee Bobinho 32 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Why Microsoft can't replace all the icons in Windows A yes, I see the "it's good enough for your average Jill" policy is alive and well at Microsoft. Way to go MS. Remind me, how many billions upon billions of dollars do you have in the bank?

A question. Why do Microsoft design their icons for children? Big bright primary colours are all well and good when designing for three year olds, or perhaps for sanitary towel ads, but not when targeting a broad adult audience.

Say hello to Legoland at...

http://www.rw-designer.com/browse-beta2-icons

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jamie wrote:
so... ive still got hope


Jamie. It is the hope that kills you.Big Smile

Nevertheless, I am with you. I still hope to see something better. I hope MS will pull a radically new UI out of the hat. Nothing would please me more.

But they won't. Because Microsoft overpromises and underdelivers. To expect more is to brook disappointment.

In other words we get the Exposé wannabee Flip3D (which confers no benefit of any kind to anybody) but we don't get WinFS.



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raymond wrote:
The Expression suite of applications must be in deep dark mode at Microsoft.



I have the Expression suite on my machine and I think they have some innovative things going on (esp. in Sparkle). But, alas nothing will happen in the forseable future with Sparkle, because we are dealing with Microsoft, and Microsoft doesn't deliver on its promises.

As a rule of thumb... always underestimate Microsoft. Then halve your expectations.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/224053-Darkness-Before-Sparkle/326a1dc241ca4359a0919dec00094d37#326a1dc241ca4359a0919dec00094d37 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:19:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/224053-Darkness-Before-Sparkle/326a1dc241ca4359a0919dec00094d37#326a1dc241ca4359a0919dec00094d37 Bobinho 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Microsoft Product Naming... AGAIN (groan) Hey Chris.

Well as it happens I do most of my computing on a Mac (Windows is an astonishingly ugly product) , but I develop in ASP.NET (as well as Rails) and I do try to appreciate the good in Microsoft (and I believe they have a lot of good to offer). They just keep screwing up on dumb things including the assinine product names. They seem to think that it is still 1991 or something. I feel plain embarrassed for the good people at Microsoft (the engineers).

BTW...

Over on Ars Technica I just saw a great suggestion for the new name...

Web Technology Framework

Wink

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Hmmm. Might that be yet another borrowed feature?

The menus look like a complete disaster zone. Similar to the PSP as he says, but then this is not necessarily a good thing on a 50" screen.

Sony better get it together. I honestly think they have underestimated Microsoft this time around.

And you don't ever wanna do that!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/222439-XBOX360-vs-PS3-Menus/beb28130fe69499592bf9dec0006d19c#beb28130fe69499592bf9dec0006d19c Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:45:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/222439-XBOX360-vs-PS3-Menus/beb28130fe69499592bf9dec0006d19c#beb28130fe69499592bf9dec0006d19c Bobinho 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Microsoft Product Naming... AGAIN (groan) I just heard that Microsoft's marketing geniuses have decided that "Atlas" is to be renamed "Windows Live Sh1t-on-a-Stick Fu.ck-up" or something similar...

Please just kill me. Or better yet them.

Seriously, MS marketing wan.kers are destroying any chance MS will ever have of appearing anything other than clueless and BORING to the broader community of human beings on the planet Earth.

Leave "Atlas" alone. It is a perfectly good name. It has caught on with devs, it is short and catchy and easy to remember.  Screw your dumb naming strategy and try to learn something from the Open Source community. Short and snappy does it best.

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Gates is a meglomaniac, whilst Jobs is a died-in-the-wool sociopath.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/174141-Allen-Gates-Controversy-Revisited/9703ef4e07fb408f88659deb014dd732#9703ef4e07fb408f88659deb014dd732 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:36:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/174141-Allen-Gates-Controversy-Revisited/9703ef4e07fb408f88659deb014dd732#9703ef4e07fb408f88659deb014dd732 Bobinho 34 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - WPF Won't Be Supported in Vista Sidebar v1.0 It's pathetic. Just pathetic.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/162525-WPF-Wont-Be-Supported-in-Vista-Sidebar-v10/c7f08fc7d03245eb961d9deb013ec58f#c7f08fc7d03245eb961d9deb013ec58f Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:24:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/162525-WPF-Wont-Be-Supported-in-Vista-Sidebar-v10/c7f08fc7d03245eb961d9deb013ec58f#c7f08fc7d03245eb961d9deb013ec58f Bobinho 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - What if Microsoft designed the iPod box? Man that is just beautiful! The difference between Apple and Microsoft is spelled out right there in that parody. MS can seemingly uglify anything. Just look at Vista.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/162066-What-if-Microsoft-designed-the-iPod-box/a091ce75a27e4c52a4d69deb013e4aac#a091ce75a27e4c52a4d69deb013e4aac Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:05:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/162066-What-if-Microsoft-designed-the-iPod-box/a091ce75a27e4c52a4d69deb013e4aac#a091ce75a27e4c52a4d69deb013e4aac Bobinho 48 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Worst Microsoft Product? I'd like to slap the person responsible for the "New Hardware Wizard" repeatedly in the face. If you unplug a USB accessory (such as a dongle for Music apps) and then plug it back in a minute later, the Hardware wizard forces you to walk you though it's dumb wizard. AGAIN. What a piece of crap. Oh and this forum software isn't exactly pleasing to use.

OTOH, I like Visual Studio 2005. A lot.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/161374-Worst-Microsoft-Product/6f7b962a13f24c9fba649deb013d4ff8#6f7b962a13f24c9fba649deb013d4ff8 Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:20:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/161374-Worst-Microsoft-Product/6f7b962a13f24c9fba649deb013d4ff8#6f7b962a13f24c9fba649deb013d4ff8 Bobinho 78 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - WPF still optional on Vista? Yup Andy that's just it. I feel lied to. What started as a revolution is now just an option to a set of apis old enough to vote.

It's pathetic.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/156723-WPF-still-optional-on-Vista/ac5674d4aad747e6ad459deb01374494#ac5674d4aad747e6ad459deb01374494 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:54:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/156723-WPF-still-optional-on-Vista/ac5674d4aad747e6ad459deb01374494#ac5674d4aad747e6ad459deb01374494 Bobinho 48 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - WPF still optional on Vista? That is a good, sane post Bryan. I hope you are right. It is so hard to go back to the old wasteful ways.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/156723-WPF-still-optional-on-Vista/05bb1e80b2bb40dd8d299deb01374388#05bb1e80b2bb40dd8d299deb01374388 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:36:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/156723-WPF-still-optional-on-Vista/05bb1e80b2bb40dd8d299deb01374388#05bb1e80b2bb40dd8d299deb01374388 Bobinho 48 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - WPF still optional on Vista? Sorry to be so blunt, but Minh is dead right and Keeron is dead wrong.

Microsoft does most of its development in C and C++. Partly this is because Microsoft’s cash cow apps are over a thousand years old, partly through developer resistance and no doubt partly through mismanagement.

Once I was a believer. I watched and listened as Microsoft raved about the benefits of managed code, the CLR, C#, the new gee-whiz paradigms et. al. I watched the .NET show and Channel 9 religiously and bought in to the concepts. It was really and truly exciting. So I began to experiment with the new technology. But as I was making my discoveries, I was noticing that the .NET rich client development scene was, to put it mildly, moribund. All the work was happening on the trendy (overrated?) Web Services model. I could see other developers were impressed by my enthusiasm, but in general they were way too busy to learn something so radically different.

I think it is perhaps about time we declared the .NET initiative, with the exception of wonderful ASP.NET a failure.

It’s been over 6 years since all the hubbub around .NET started. And yet, in all this time not one notable application has been created in .NET. Nobody, not even Microsoft uses NET for mainstream desktop application development. Nobody uses any mainstream .NET software because there is none.

Now we have this rumour that WIN FX may be now be optional in Vista. So much for Vista being the fulfilment of the .NET dream! I wonder if it was the same genius who decided there should be two Xbox models who made this decision. Whatever, enough is enough. It ain’t gonna happen.

I am giving up on .NET for the desktop, maybe I’ll start building web apps instead.

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On the bright side the sidebar is semi-transparent.

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Nothing on that list offers a competitive advantage over Mac OS Tiger. (I am no Mac lover, just keeping MS honest)

Robert Fripp? Frippertronics were (moderately) interesting in the '70s...

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(2) I would like a repository where we can ask questions of upcoming interviewees (when appropriate).

(3) More ASP.NET Wink

(4) More nice surprises (like the BG interview).

(5) Better support for all browsers.

Devil More questions set by the community.

But in truth we are pretty much spoiled by the Channel 9 team.

Thanks for all the good stuff so far. Hope there's more to come.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/152893-Channel-9-The-next-6-months-Content/84d57ffbc2494681baf79deb013230ac#84d57ffbc2494681baf79deb013230ac Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:35:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/152893-Channel-9-The-next-6-months-Content/84d57ffbc2494681baf79deb013230ac#84d57ffbc2494681baf79deb013230ac Bobinho 35 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bobinho/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Microsoft's 2006 according to Cringely "Microsoft still sucks at security and users suffer for it. My best guess is they are planning on putting all this new technology in the "next" operating system, which seems to be yet another year behind schedule. The important question the world will soon be asking -- "Do we need another Windows operating system?" In 2006, Windows XP gets another service pack and/or facelift. Nothing more."

Now Bob is a tiny bit of a Linux zealot and I don't take him altogether seriously, but he generally has a good record with predictions. He knows things we don't.

Still, no Vista, sucking at security, do we need windows?

What do the good niners make of these predictions?

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