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Re: Inside Windows 8: Greg Colombo - Heap Manager

warren — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:39:50 GMT

Thanks for coming back to the old-school Going Deep format, Charles. This video is excellent. Be sure to get Greg back someday.

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Re: IE 9 Performance Pipeline Overview

warren — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:12:19 GMT

Charles, the quality of these IE9 videos is amazing, especially the camera work and the quality of the encoding.

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Re: Surupa Biswas: CLR 4 - Resilient NGen with Targeted Patching

warren — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:48:13 GMT

I'm really glad to see some serious work has been done in the direction of making patching the .NET Framework a lot less intrusive. A lot of IT folks get really grumbly when it's time to patch the framework, because the NGEN process will run for 10+ minutes, usually after a reboot, and quite often when the user is trying to get their day started.

I also have to say, Ms. Biswas is a really engaging and interesting person to listen to. It's always a big bonus when you can not only show your passion for your work, but explain it in a very clear way without a lot of umm'ing and ahh'ing.

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Re: Jeff Sandquist: Channel 9 Through the Years

warren — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:18:13 GMT

You know what could be great fun, Charles, is to get all the non-Microsoft niners together that've got something to say about Channel 9 and what it's meant to them over the past five years, and put it in one place.

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Re: Jeff Sandquist: Channel 9 Through the Years

warren — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:17:17 GMT

Has it been five years already? I've been here the whole time.

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Re: endpoint.tv - "Dublin" what is it and why should I care?

warren — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:54:58 GMT

Great video.... more like this, please.

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Re: 10-4 Episode 9: Visual Basic 10

warren — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:00:34 GMT

Hey Jason, the video is excellent -- one small comment though... while I know you want to promote your future videos, a description of them probably doesn't belong here. It'll hinder searching.

And if that's the most I can find to nit-pick on, then you're doing great.

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Re: John Sheehan: Architecture and Engineering of Microsoft Application Virtualization (AppVirt)

warren — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:16:28 GMT

Charles, I really dig this particular style of Channel 9 video, with the two cameras and showing the back & forth between you and John. I imagine it's a bunch of extra work to get set up and to do editing etc. afterwards, but it works well and is very enjoyable to watch and listen to.

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Re: 10-4 Episode 5: Code Focused in Visual Studio 2010

warren — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:42:01 GMT

Drew, the ever-present football logo is seriously distracting from the presentation of the video. These videos should be 100% focused on Visual Studio, not your sports interests. Thanks.

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Re: Branching 101 with Doug Neumann - Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

warren — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:03:16 GMT

Whoah, weird... I was drawing almost exactly the same diagrams for my co-workers when explaining VSTS's branch/merge capability.

VSTS is a great product. It really doesn't have a "1.0" feel to it at all, and the team is very helpful in explaining how to do stuff that's a bit off the rails.

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Re: Rory Blyth: The Exit Interview

warren — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:47:48 GMT

BlackTiger wrote:

Annoying guy...
Clown

MS lost nothing after his resignment.

Now now, don't resent him for being the smartest man in the world. Someone's gotta do it.

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Re: Iain McDonald and Andrew Mason show off the new Windows Server OS

warren — Sun, 28 May 2006 20:43:05 GMT

ChrisA wrote:

Is Microsoft going to supply BASH, TCSH or any type of unix type shells? Where is a list of command line commands for core server? cmd.exe is a weak shell and unless enough cli tools are provided to make this thing really useful

Windows isn't as shell-centric as Unix is.

Philosophically, you don't generally pass around bits of data between multiple programs in Windows. Instead, you write script in VBScript, JScript, etc. and have cscript (or wscript) execute it. You get contructs and tools (string manipulation, file I/O, logging, etc.) which are more or less equivalent to what you'll get from the GNU set of tools, as well as access to a lot of neat information and functionality that the OS provides, through WMI and COM.

Microsoft has already been providing piles of Unix command-line tools for years, including tcsh and ksh. More info here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/migun2wi.mspx

Whether or not this stuff will be installable as part of Server Core is something MS will need to clarify someday.

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Re: Don McGowan - Technology law at Microsoft (and the software industry)

warren — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:30:30 GMT

Excellent interview, Robert, definitely amongst the best!

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Re: IE 7: What's new in Beta 2 Preview

warren — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:21:48 GMT

BenZilla wrote:

I like it, but there is 1 thing I do not like about the UX:

In firefox it has the close tabs all the way to the right, so I can just slam my mouse over and click on it without any hesitation. In I.E. I have to click on the tab itself.

Press Ctrl+W. That will close the current tab. If you mouse right-handed, you probably have your left hand resting on the left side of the keyboard anyhow, so it's a pretty quick & convenient shortcut.

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Re: IE 7: What's new in Beta 2 Preview

warren — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:11:26 GMT

Best quote from the video: "IE7 makes junk mail fun again!"

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Re: Piero Sierra (and others) - Microsoft Max

warren — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:18:38 GMT

scobleizer wrote:

Zeo wrote: Blackcomb is alive and well.....Good to know that the codename of "Blackcomb" hasn't changed! Thanks for the confirmation...hadn't heard that codename being used since early 2004

Zeo: sssshhhhh, but since this video was shot the codename for Blackcomb has indeed changed to Vienna. I haven't gotten the story on this yet, though.

Eerrrrr... Robert, wasn't "Vienna" the code-name for Live Communications Server 2005?

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Re: Cleartype Team - Typography in Windows Vista

warren — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:46:23 GMT

(deleted -- apparently making quote blocks doesn't work right if one uses Safari on C9)

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Re: Cleartype Team - Typography in Windows Vista

warren — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:45:45 GMT

Khamul wrote:

PS: Why do they all start with C?

Bill Hill answers this in the video: It's because they're all fonts designed for ClearType, so they started the names of all the fonts with C to go along with that.

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Re: Introducing MSN Toolbar Suite - Silicon Valley team (and demo!)

warren — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:31:23 GMT

glebd wrote:

So where does this leave the Windows search feature available from the Start menu? Would it be better to update that one instead of fragmenting the search feature by introducing another tool?

MSN products don't typically replace existing Windows functionality. For example, Windows Messenger is left alone when you install MSN Messenger. Also, the MSN Toolbar has a pop-up blocker, and if you attempt to use it with XP SP2, it will force you to choose one blocker or the other.

This is one aspect of Microsoft I really don't understand. It really seems like MSN is off in their own little world, writing what could be considered third-party software for Windows. Seems like a wasteful duplication of effort to me...

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Re: Bill Hill - How does ClearType work?

warren — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:06:02 GMT

dpen2000 wrote:

green eh? that explains why the xp start button is green I guess.
But hey, cleartype is cool and nice looking but what is it actually? How do you define Cleartype?

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/default.htm

This is Microsoft's site on ClearType. There's some good information there.

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