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For the Media Center Team [For the Media Center Team]

MadRaven — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:39:38 GMT

I thought I post it here.

The Media Center team really should look at this program as it is an interface similar to MCE (a clone) but with far more options and a lot of interesting ideas.
The program is Meedio (www.meedio.com) formely myHTPC.

I really would like MCE to have some of these great ideas. The home automation part is an excellent idea also.

Ps. I don't know what's comming in MCE 2005 but I guess a lot of these ideas ar not in it.

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The chaos that is at microsoft.com [The chaos that is at microsoft.com]

MadRaven — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 20:29:02 GMT

I don't know about you, but my personal opinion is that it is one of the most bloated sites that exist on the net. I know that it is hard to find the balance between simplicity and the amount of information u provide, but this surely can be done better that it is the case at microsoft.com.
The lack of a common vision that governs all Microsoft sites is an obstacle for people to find the right information they seek.

For example the lack of a place you can go to find support like a forum.microsoft.com or something.
The newsgroups are scattered across all sites and hard to find. There is also the lack of a common form of forum. Some use nntp others are web forum that you access form the browser, and even others that you can access form the browser and through a (nntp) news reader.

Lack of management of these groups:
For example the newsgroups at nntp:news.microsoft.com have a lot of group that are way to old like the OE6beta group

There are too many places you can download the same things. It is confusing. The worst thing is that most of the time on each of these another version is available.

And I could go on. I searched last year a great deal to find the site that you sign up for the ISV Empower program. After that the sign up took an awful lot of time.

So what do you guys think of this matter?

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Idea for channel9 forum [Idea for channel9 forum]

MadRaven — Sat, 08 May 2004 15:07:53 GMT

Why don't you make a thread about a windows component every week so everybody can express his/her opinion about it? For example what if this weeks topic were the Start Menu, or the Control Panel and everybody could state his/her point of view, and I'm sure some good ideas could come out of this. And it would be a week’s topic so a lot of opinions could accumulate.

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