Channel 9 - Discussions by ezu

Coffeehouse - What are you listening to: 2006

ezu — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:09:46 GMT

Coffeehouse - How to Insult Microsoft?

ezu — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:17:00 GMT

Some of my insults, or better, insults i hear moving to microsoft from people around me.

n + 1) Microsoft's commercials are ugly, look Apple's one...

n + 2) Embrace and extend: it's a good idea but you've to "Invent" something sometimes... [TabletPc and MediaCenter are great, but people simply don't know of their existence, they only know about Google things, iPod and PlayStation stuff]

n + 3) Microsoft is identified yet with Bill Gates, i don't know how it works in the States, but here in Europe it isn't a good think identifying a company with the richest man in the World (socialism and comunism are part of our culture). [Personally i have a great ammiration of Bill Gates, but people (i repeat, here in Europe), simply don't like him because of his "Power" (ie Money)]

n + 4) Microsoft want control what i run on my PC (is the only thing i hear about Longhorn/Vista from my friends). People have a distorted vision of what is DRM, i think you've to care about that.

n + 5) Microsoft has ugly graphic design. The UI of your products are awesome, but i think people cares even of the image perception of a product (commercials, brochure, logos...). Hire some great industrial designer and try to have a "style" (like... Apple).

n + 6) Microsoft stock is unattractive. This becomes to be a great trouble (...read MiniMicrosoft blog...) and great economist journal are beginning to see it.

n + 7) Microsoft talks about their upcomming products to early. When there are in production, they loose their innovation "skills". Have i to do some examples? Really?

n + Internet Explorer Sucks! This is what people says. Firefox model to insult Microsoft and it's platform is starting to became a model to destroy even Windows and the "platform", imho. Take care of it... I don't think that IE7 alone will balancing this "model". We're living in a caotic world with "butterfly effects" everywhere...

n + 9) There is no one who says "Microsoft Rocks" anywhere... only people that says "Microsoft Sucks"...

Well the list can be more long than this, but i have some troubles (first the language ) to continue. Personally i really like Microsoft for a thousand reasons, so if i say what i've sayd it's only because i'll like to see Microsoft grow and don't die.

And, because this is the only place on Earth where someone can be a Microsoft fan without being threated like a "(I need to watch my language)", i want to say:

I Love Microsoft

Coffeehouse - Avalon and Indigo beta 1 RC

ezu — Wed, 25 May 2005 10:19:10 GMT

Well, i've made the same... and in VS2005B2 nothing, no templates for avalon.

I think that depends on the fact that the link is for the "runtime" only. You must download the SDK ISO file for VS integration, i suppose (i'm doing it right now).

Here's the link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.microsoft.com%2Fdownload%2F5%2F4%2F0%2F5407D6E4-740E-413E-8E91-EF7AC53A478A%2Fen_winfx_sdk_beta1_RC.iso&na=44&p=0&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=b789bc8d-4f25-4823-b6aa-c5edf432d0c1&genscs==

Coffeehouse - Hello Tablet world!

ezu — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:08:42 GMT

body must not be empty... [Duncanma]

Coffeehouse - New Avalon developer preview released

ezu — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:10:40 GMT

HOOAH... i can't wait to download it and try it a little...

Hey... BUT... either i start write some code and get some skills on it... i can't write a "real-world-business" application on it until Longhorn is released, or am i wrong? So it just doesn't come out with the VS2005, right?

That will hard to teach to my CEO... i can hear he shouting in my ears: "man! stop loosing your time on this s**t! you have to be productive NOW!"

What i'll say is that: yes that's really great but, in the best prediction, we'll use this holy new dev-platform in 2006/7... that's really frustration ;-(.

Anyway, hip hip hurra to MS. Thanks to let us ~~loosing our time~~ use this fantastic things .