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Good interview! 
I can't tell you how much time Doron has saved me via his valuable news group posts. 

 

Arg! 
Please do not call it "Expression Interactive Designer" or some other boring name.  I swear it seems like there's a Dilbertesque department deep in the bowels of MS (probably manned by trolls) where cool project names are turned into lame product names.
Why not leave the name Sparkle?  It's sooo much better than "Expression Interactive Designer".
In all seriousness this is a real problem that MS needs to address if it wants to compete with Apple, Google etc.

Wow.  Great stuff.

Bring on #3!

Very cool.  Nar talked a bit about this last year at WinHEC.  Hope we get more details at this year's WinHEC next week.

My only concern about his performance theory that latency is ok as long as the bandwidth is still maximized is input devices.  With a Tablet for example the bandwidth requirement is low but latency (or lack of) is important.

Manip wrote:

I am still trying to
get my head around concurrency and this only confused me
more... So yeah...

You need to trudge through Larry Osterman's 15! part posting about concurrency.  Long but well worth it.

Here's part one.
http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2005/02/14/372508.aspx

One thing that wasn't touched on is how people could interact via their archives.  It seems like it would be easy to compare virtual lives and find people with very similar interests.  That's just one example

Very cool stuff.  Maybe one of the best videos yet.

bofe wrote:

dotnetjunkie wrote: This was an intersting video, but why so short?  It seems like a part is missing, Bert was just explaining how form entry could be improved... want... more... now!

I agree. The videos with Bert have been my favorite part of C9 besides the series with Larry.    

And Michael Tsang.  Bring us more Michael Tsang!

That was getting good right there at the end.  A question I would have like to ask is how he sees pressure enhancing the user experience, aside from drawing and Ink scenarios.  It seems that it could be thought of as a Z axis for certain types of input or interaction.  Drag while pressing light and it copies the file or drag while pressing hard and it moves it.  Things along these lines I think would really help make the pen more useful.

rasx writes:
"To me, the best way to interview a programmer is to put her in a room with a computer, tell her what the problem is and walk out of the room with a promise to return in 15 minutes. Very, very few programmers get the opportunity to stand up in front of a white board and “lecture” to people about solving the problem"

This only works if the person is not expected to work on a team.  If they are just expected to sit and hack out their code then fine.  Software that is large and complicated requires a team of people with good communication skills.  That is the real goal of the white board test.