Ping 59: Private Cloud strategy, Gadget predictions, Microsoft is the most social company, Free Robotics

HOLY LAURA, Nice pick up on that w.g. vid.

So, if Microsoft is the most "social" company... how come Laura barely uses her Twitter?

Bah -- other people are boring (present company excluded, of course. ). You, however, remain the life of the party.

The length of the show was good this time

I don't want t sound all complaining but the color saturation during close-ups is very, very bad

Not so negative Paul. Blogs are great, you just need to integrate them into Channel 9 and to have topic based syndication for blogs

The color saturation didn't influence me, the sound is much more important. Actually the saturation makes everything seem warmer heh.

Wow! This show is really great! I can't belive that so few watch it, need to tell my friends about this  

Its great that you are nautral in the MS vs Apple thing, because if you did, this place would be trolled down!

Need to start build Lego-robots aggain since I learned how to do programming the last few years

Have a nice summer!

Yes, there is a goffy color issue. Whats is up with that, don't you have HD cams with color correct?

Does somebody over here know who is going to demo VS 2010 at the upcoming Apple's World Wide DevCon? I've heard Visual Studio is going to support iPhone development, but there is no details as to whether iPhone OS will be running in virtual PC just like Windows Phone Phone 7 does, whether developers will be able to write Objective C code in Visual Studio or may be Apple will open iPhone to Silverlight development?

Apple's policies forbid development on any platform/language/framework other than their tooling on a Mac. Period. It is doubtful that this will ever change.

This reflects my understanding of what I've read. I might be wrong.

Then why do they have Microsoft person scheduled to give a keynote about (VS 2010 ???) during their DevCon?

It was just a rumour which turned out, unsurprisingly, to be completely false.

It would be nice to have Silverlight on iPhone, though it would kill WP7.

So will Robotics Studio go free and then be shutdown in six months (e.g. Office Accounting, etc)?  Hope not.

Notice the close-up on the clip with Bill Gates and not on Steve Jobs. Was it possible the Steve was jotting down notes as Bill was talking?? Or did Steve have a VOX-recording app running on his iphone? (lol)

Hmmmm......