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I would like to see viewership numbers displayed for each video on channel 9.  Also, how much people stay tuned in vs exit early.  Some of the stuff I am inclined not to watch ( ping ) or once I stop understanding the presentation ( monads, F# ) I stop watching. If I can see that others stayed with it, I might give a video a 2nd try.

4 hours ago,Maddus Mattus wrote

Channel9 is about technology (mostly Microsoft's), so how can any video be negative?

And what's more, what is the point?

What about a video explaining why windows mobile was a flop? And what that portends for WP7?

the problem I have with WPF, silverlight and likely WP7 is that I can't program the stuff without a total focus of my time.  As long as Anders does not allow them in as first class citizens of C# ( guessing ), dependency properties are not intutitive to use.

I like Word the more I use it. The table of contents works pretty good.  Who is the genius in the office division who thought up the idea of automatically linking heading 1, 2 and 3 with the TOC?  A great feature.  With LiveSync and SkyDrive I use Word now instead of google documents. But google docs does a better job of managing your collection of documents. Esp being able to search all of the documents for something.

Access is the product I just cannot get the hang of. Learning WPF was easier. Without the people on Microsoft Answers I would be totally lost. I keep thinking it would be a good addition to my freelance work to be able to write an Access app in a day or so. I will keep dreaming.  I never finished Moby Dick so I can't use that analogy here, but learning Access is fast becoming a matter of personal professional pride for me.

Is there an open source cloud OS being developed?  I can't see locking myself into both a hosting site and a proprietary OS. How do you pick up your application and run it elsewhere?

DCMonkey said:

What features of Sharepoint do your clients need? Sharepoint Foundation 2010 is a free download for Windows Server 2008.

 

 

 

thanks for the link. Looks like sharepoint foundation does not support access 2010:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/addbuz/thread/c9c9c027-7708-4c65-aede-aee5571e6076

I hope there is an upcoming video on small business server.  There is so much I don't know.  After seeing the access and sharepoint videos I was interested in learning how to use  that software. But then I saw the standalone price of sharepoint and kind of said forget about it. The business clients I want to target can't afford that. Then it is like, oh, small business server, that includes sharepoint and it is affordable. But SBS uses an older version of sharepoint?  The latest news I have is from the SBS team blog, they say aurora is the new SBS and it was released in mid July for some sort of beta tryout. But a few minutes of link clicking did not get me to a download. 

Will sharepoint 2010 be a part of the next SBS?

natelawrence said:

SteveRichter said:

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@SteveRichter, many apologies for my newbie reply, but you do write WP7 apps in Silverlight, don't you? And isn't coding in .net one of the big selling points of Silverlight? I realise that it's a subset, but it sounds to me like you're already talking about beginning with a subset and branching out as features warrant it.

 

What am I missing? Please, try not to flame me.

I have written silverlight and wpf apps. No WP7 and no mobile apps. I understand WP7 is locked down software wise and has a lot of hardware requirements in order to provide the user with a consistent experience.   But why limit .net to yet to be announced high feature phones?  Just curious about the subject.  Why did windows mobile lose so much market share?   I would think there would be a market for a standalone phone OS that could be loaded on any phone with enough memory.

I don't follow why windows mobile had to be scrapped. Give me a hand held device that runs the .net framework. As hardware capabilities are added to the device, add classes to the framework that provide access to that hardware. 

Major front page article in the WSJ this monday saying MSFT marketing execs quashed efforts by the IE team to better enable browser privacy.

I hope channel 9 puts out a video explaining the MSFT position on this issue.    It seems easy enough for a user to be able to opt in on a site by site basis to store cookies in their browser.  Cookies, I assume, are useful to maintain session state. But once you navigate away from a site, what user benefiting reason is there to keep a cookie on the browser? Is a cookie the only way to cache a user name and password?