Comment Feed for Channel 9 - This Week on C9: Top 9 MS Stories of 2008 and best of This Week on C9 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/448223_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - This Week on C9: Top 9 MS Stories of 2008 and best of This Week on C9 For our last episode of the year, Dan and Brian do a 2008 retrospective and pick the Top 9 Microsoft-related stories of 2008. 9. Microsoft plus or minus Yahoo 8. The coolness that is Photosynth 7. Windows Live & Live Mesh 6. XNA Community Games 5. Silverlight 2 & NBC Olympics 4. Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008  & .NET Framework 3.5 3. Windows 7 2. Azure Services Platform 1. Bill Gates Leaves Microsoft Plus a compendium of our favorite clips and moments from This Week on Channel 9. Thanks to all our viewers, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year - Dan and Brian en Fri, 24 May 2013 12:05:10 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 12:05:10 GMT Rev9 Re: This Week on C9: Top 9 MS Stories of 2008 and best of This Week on C9

posted by littleguru

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posted by rhm

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Nice retrospective, guys. Here's to another year!

posted by Bas

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@rhm we do have too much fun, but who doesn't want to work at a place where you have a blast, get to play with new technology, meet cool people in the community and of course, have fun Smiley

@Bas LOL, those bean bags are great and super comfy and as for Scott, I think he gets that a lot Smiley

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posted by VB Man

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Scott should come back and do more of his accents!!

posted by littleguru

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posted by jh71283

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But common guys, what is it "Happy holidays AND Happy New Year”?  We have more than one end of December official holiday besides New Year? This is very "offensive"  Sad.  Couldn't you just say either "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"?
Why do you undermine Christmas so much, or is it a banned word at Microsoft, or your code censors Christmas automatically Smiley LOL.

Anyways, great year, great site, great work, videos, topics!!! Congrats!!!
... and
"Merry Christmas" and a "Happy New Year"!  Wink

P.S. I know corporate policies like to discriminate the "unpopular" minorities in favor "popular" (or more vocal) minorities.

posted by ivan_

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But honestly, we do have a diverse audience. Part of what makes Channel 9 great is the diversity - of the Niners, of the people in front of the camera, and of the people behind the camera. While that might sound like HR rhetoric, I really enjoy the diversity and have friends and colleagues from all walks of life.

In that spirit, there are sometimes simple things one can do (replacing Christmas with Holidays for example) which can help you to avoid alienating anybody. I guess it's just a habit I've gotten in which works for me, and I think I'm speaking for Dan when I say that as well. It certainly isn't anything that HR or corporate PR impose on us - thankfully we tend to fly under the radar low enough that we generally aren't subject to their scrutiny. Shhh.... Wink

Anyway - I am sorry if we offended you by being too policitally correct on this one, but thanks for your kind words and your viewership, and we'll see you in the New Year! (unless you use a different calendar system than the rest of the world in which case I'm deeply sorry if I've offended anybody.... ok couldn't resist that one! Wink )

Brian

posted by briankel

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Chinese don't celebrate new year in January, but in March. They didn't celebrate Christmas either, until recently, and now it is celebrated only as a marketing campaign. So in a politically correct environment we should not mention any holidays at all since  huge chunk of people don't have any this time of the year, otherwise we would be offending them. Smiley

This is a very slippery slope argument, which could eliminate all the holidays all together. LOL. Smiley

May be we should omit "holi" since it reminds of a word "holy" and thus it is too religious and offends atheists.

Christmas is a Federal holiday just like 4th of July, yet nobody is really politically correct on that day while it is celebrated only in US.

My point is, since when did Christmas become offensive to somebody while other holidays didn't? And if you are politically correct to some and not the others, that is NOT politically correct.

It is very good to have diversity, I have many friends from different countries, and I respect their views.

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Ha! Well, we were going to close the episode by just saying "Happy Days" but we ran into trademark infrigement.

posted by briankel

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