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• Vista Collaboration

  Feb 24, 2006 at 9:14 AM

  Hm, MS FolderShare website running on PHP, weird...
  

• Kirk Glerum and Mike Hollinshead - Watson (what happens when your system crashes?)

  Sep 22, 2005 at 3:18 AM

  nektar wrote:

  What I want to know is what information is collected with the Customer Experience Improvement Program as well. Programs like Office 2003, Windows Media Player and MSN Messenger include an option for the Customer Experience Improvement Program. This option when selected sends anonymous information to Microsoft about the usage of that particular application. What we do not know is what kind of information is sent to Microsoft. We want more info on that. So please interview the Customer Experience Improvement people.

  
  
  http://www.microsoft.com/products/ceip/

• Channel 9 Team - Welcome to our new design

  Aug 26, 2005 at 2:08 AM

  I love new design...it's so neat. Great!
  
  
  
  BTW Why is there the Login label when I'm already logged in? It's a bit confusing...
  
  BTW2 I want larger avatars
  
  BTW3 Where is my new avatar? I can see the old one only...
  
  

• Longhorn (heart) RSS

  Jun 25, 2005 at 7:14 AM

  That Outlook-2-RssCalendar example is quite cool...
  

• Longhorn (heart) RSS

  Jun 25, 2005 at 6:45 AM

  drylight wrote:

  Longhorn seems to be a very big ship which is hard to steer, with releases taking many years, with infrequent updates. By the time it comes out others will have moved on to other things. For a lot of the things coming out they seem to be reactionary. When a competitor announces something in their product, you hear the MS guys saying, "yeah sure we got that in Longhorn". And if they actually don't have it in there, the release is so far away they could squeeze it in by then. Highly innovative? Because it builds on something new? Unseen? They are playing catch up. For example, they fell asleep with IE and now have ramped up development on it again. What else besides tabs and RSS are they doing? Anything new? When I see people using IE these days I always think "you're still using that?!?". Why people persits with it amazes me. Use Firefox (or Safari) for five minutes and you should be sold on it and dump IE, unless you need to visit some IE-only friendly web site.

  
  
  I use FF and I have to admit that it's far better than current IE 6 but I'm also excited about IE 7; it won't get just RSS and tabs, there's gonna be much more in it (I hope ). For example Low Right for IE 7 (in LH)...
  

• Longhorn (heart) RSS

  Jun 25, 2005 at 2:18 AM

  drylight wrote:

  We may be looking at two slightly different angles here. I guess I am thinking about this more from an end-user point of view, not from a developer's. And that's not to say that I am completely closed to MS's innovations. I am a C# developer, and I like the language and .NET framework a lot. I certainly think they did a better job of creating a new language and managed/garbage collected, etc. development environment than what Sun did with Java. So I'm not completely anti-MS.

  
  
  OK, now I understand your opinions a bit better but consider that as rich development framework MS (or anybody else) provides, as rich the end-user applications will be...
  
  EDIT: What is currently your "wow" feature?
  

• Longhorn (heart) RSS

  Jun 25, 2005 at 2:03 AM

  drylight wrote:

  That's MS's job (to innovate), not mine. It just seems like this RSS in IE7 and Longhorn (due next year) is all over the bloggersphere when it's really nothing new. MS have not created something new, something cool, there is no "wow" factor in this. Others are already placing RSS in the software (or OS). RSS in IE7 (not yet available), already done by others. Searching accross all your files on your machine (due in Longhorn), already done. Tabs in IE7 (not yet available), already done. MS's products aren't exciting.

  
  
  Maybe for you MS products are not exciting but for me, from the developer's point of view, they are...
  
  Have you considered Whidbey, Indigo, Avalon? This is what I call innovation.
  

• Longhorn (heart) RSS

  Jun 25, 2005 at 1:43 AM

  drylight wrote:

  MS discovers RSS (late) and it's a big deal? This has already been done by others. IE7 is due soon, Longhorn in 2006? Others are way ahead of the game when it comes to RSS. MS is not innovative, has nothing new or exciting, there are other players which have already done this stuff. Show us something new, don't copy, try to innovate.

  
  
  Haha...I like people that say "Hey MS, don't copy, INNOVATE!. Look at Apple, they don't copy, it's just you who copies."
  
  8-)
  
  Suggest us, please, some "innovations" you'd like to see coming from MS!
  
  
  

• Longhorn (heart) RSS

  Jun 25, 2005 at 12:35 AM

  I haven't seen the video yet, but is this RSS functionality supposed to be exposed through the managed code?
  

• Shareware Starter Kit Demo

  Jun 13, 2005 at 1:35 AM

  Beer28 wrote:

  hmmmmmm....
  
  I bet the web side will be recoded with php/mysql (LAMP) about 10 minutes after the release considering what most webservers run.
  
  

  
  
  Hijacker, hijacker!
  
  So you think this kit is worth trying? You, the Linux Guru?

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