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Charles wrote:

Turning of UAC is a user-decided action and therefore a user-decided mistake. Yeah, a mistake.

So UAC is Microsoft's way of making an insecure Windows system the user's fault instead of Microsoft's fault.  A "cover your (I need to watch my language)" feature.  Nice.

Where is the guidelines document mentioned in the video?

Edit:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx -- coming soon...

Is the list of VS 2005 SP1 issues on Vista a work in progress, or is there a link we can visit to see it in its current state?  Is there a working list of issues for people participating in the SP1 beta?

Great interview!

Charles wrote:

Marketing has no place on Channel 9 (from our Doctrine). This means, that we don't use Channel 9 as a way to market our products. It does NOT mean that we can't interview interesting people who work in Marketing. Make sense?

And yet...

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/12/06/the-anti-marketing-marketing/

You might want to get your stories straight.

Cornelius Ellsonpeter wrote:

I can't think of any reason why you would be banned.  Has anybody been truly banned from this site anyway?

orbit86 comes to mind.

I remember Jay from his days of presenting at VBLive! a few years back.  He was with Clarity Consulting (I think?) back then, doing a presentation with Andrew Brust, MS NY Regional Director.  I'm a little surprised that Scoble didn't do this interview considering that he used to be involved in VBLive! but maybe they worked there at different times (plus scheduling conflicts of the here and now).

Anyway, it's good to see someone with actual experience doing what most professional software developers do with VB working on the VB.NET team, rather than some CompSci PhD who might understand compilers and programming languages but whose experience with applications is limited to sample code and proofs of concept.

One thing I would like to see is some creative genius applied towards making software that allows people to make CGI movies.  Like what the Red vs. Blue folks use Halo for.  People already use video games like Halo and World of Warcraft to make entertaining Webcomics and video; I'm surprised no one out there has gone out and tried to cash in on that phenomena.

EDIT:  Oops, hope I don't get the Red vs. Blue guys in trouble.

It's refreshing to see someone so enthusiastic about their job!  Of course, if your job is developing world-class video games for an entire world of videogame players to play, it's not so hard to imagine being enthusiastic about something like that, but it's interesting to see the actual realization of such a dream.

What did the Xbox MVP's think of the Xbox 360?  If you have already written something about this (article, blog, whatever), please copy or link here.  Thanks!

Did anyone else think it was hilarious when that guy freaked out when Scoble got too close to the memory bits?

Excellent video!  I must go visit this museum someday!