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About the content, this was 90% marketing, very similar to 

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/design-walkthrough-forza-motorsport/53172

 

I find the video on that link more interesting, it goes deeper into the game and shows gameplay and video, and not 30% of the video talks about the performance of some car, the format is still not something I think is appropriate for C9 though.

 

I do not think you need to expand your audience, I think MS would benefit from keeping the content on this site to us geeks and experts, if we like it, we will promote Microsoft and the products to the other non experts.

 

About ping and marketing, here are some headlines from the latest shows:

"What does Zune HD mean for you?"

"Tired mac ads"

"Is google scared?"

"Microsoft is cool"

 

Contrast this with the very professional atmosphere in the JAOO interviews with Guy Steele and Anders, or with interviews with Lars Bak from Lang.Net

 

If you can drastically change the format of the show, I would love to watch it. Here are some ideas for content:

- A technical Interview with Halo lead Corrinne Yu, about programming.

http://www.kombo.com/article.php?artid=12174

- An interview with the guys who ported Compact Framework to Xbox for XNA, problems, solutions, tips for optimizing code etc.

 

- An technical talk with the awesome Johnny Lee and Natal.
This guy:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Johnny-Lee-Microsoft-Researcher/

- More XNA stuff, what's next, who is working there, a tour around their offices etc.

 

- Interview with Gears of War team, or preferable Tim Sweeney from Epic. Problems with developing the Unreal Engine cross platform, differences between Xbox, PC and PS3. General-purpose CPUs on the xbox360 vs the SPUs on the PS3. SPU and parallel programming in general.

I believe C9 is a great marketing channel for Microsoft, because it's honest and shows that ms has some really great minds working on interesting things. It's great marketing precisely because it's not this kind of shows. This show and ping is exactly what C9 don't need. I want interesting questions about interesting things from experts in their fields, not presenters shouting marketing fluff to rockmusic.

Could I use joins in this subset sql? Or is this something like bigtable, couchdb and amazon simpledb? It would be interesting to hear how the two different approaches to solving the parallel data problem works if it's not the same. 

http://www.paulbatum.com/2009/07/reacting-to-reactive-framework-part-5.html

 

http://evain.net/blog/articles/2009/07/30/rebasing-system-reactive-to-the-net-clr

Agree, this is terrible.

Can we please have a better usability story for Silverlight 4. I want to do basic things like select text with my mouse, right click and copy-paste, mouse wheel scrolling for list boxes, Alt-Down for Combo boxes, Alt-Underlines for shortcuts and all the other basic stuff. Basically what was needed to be a certified win95 app.

Show us a simple example of how to benefit from the CCR in a simple winforms or ASP app.

Epic! Best video on C9 so far. And that says a lot.