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The video looks like one of those creative obscure ads for perfume  You know, the ones where you have no idea what it's about until the last moment - "XXX by XYZ".

What was that database admin tool which the team was using?

I could have told you the name of their project/code, "EvNet". I discovered it in error messages while I was doing penetration testing (as one does).
You guys might want to flag a msg when a forum/post id doesn't exist. I remembered that a null reference error occurred; your aspx error page (oops.aspx) for unhandled errors now handles it.

You should really think about implementing a true search engine for the C9 release. I doubt the live/msn search is as efficient.

Charles looks like a bouncer in that pic

cain wrote:

How about making a 'lite' version without

• Sharing folders,
• All those things down the left side of the main messenger window (alerts, etc.),
• Contact Cards,
• Backgrounds,
• Winks,
• Dynamic Display Pictures,
• Ads
• Any of the other useless 'features' I missed.

Live messenger is great and out of all the messenger clients I've ever used it's definately my favourite.  But it could be so much better without all that extra stuff.  Simplicity and performance should be your two most important features.

Probably wont happen because it would require more resources

One question:
Are you going to look into increasing performance in the future versions?

I sometimes see it sucking up nearly 60-80 megs of ram. I know RAM is cheap... etc, but I use my RAM mainly for fueling other apps like the hog Visual Studio 2005 and FireFox. This is one of the reasons (like w3bbo) that I use Windows Messenger - clean and light.

Still not ready to talk about Yahoo eh?

"I own Yahoo Interop... CUT"

edit:
I hope you meant "children" in a positive manner

edit2:

Excellent video Charles, very informative.

One other thing, Charles should blog more! It would be nice to know his opinions on the world of tech

Remember that song called "Bye Bye Mr CIO Guy..." which was song by Pat Helland? We should make a pun of that for Scoble.

Bye Bye Mr Scoble, Old boy
You taught us all the joys of blogging ....

(cant think of anything else)

I thought Pat Halland left msft for amazon?