Bill Hill
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7 minutes, 45 secondsBill Hill: One OceanBill Hill has always been a fan favorite on Channel 9. In fact, his early interviews helped us crystallize the original (now referred to as OldSchool since we have other great methodologies in place on 9) Channel 9 Method of human-focused, unrehearsed real conversations with people. We… -
22 minutes, 38 secondsBill Hill: On Channel 9, Niners and Homo Sapiens 2.0Long time Niner, typography master, ClearType co-inventor and more-than-avid reader Bill Hill reflects on Channel 9, the state of the economy, Homo Sapiens 2.0 and the next version of, well, Bill Hill (Bill Hill 2.0). Bill was the focus of one of the very early interviews on Channel… -
50 minutes, 24 secondsBill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web, Part 2This is the second part of the interview that Dan and Christian did with Bill Hill. (See Part 1 here). While many people know Bill from his work on True Type and his passion for improving screen readability, Bill is now working on improving Web readability in Internet Explorer and… -
44 minutes, 56 secondsBill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web, Part 1Bill Hill - the man, the myth, the legend is back on Channel 9! Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger and I got a chance to catch up with Bill on his latest work... While many people know Bill from his work on True Type and his passion for improving screen readability, Bill is now… -
56 minutes, 1 secondBill Hill: Digital Democracy and the Declaration of Digital IndependenceBill Hill is one of the Niners' favorite Microsoft personalities. He is also a legend around Microsoft and within the typography community. Bill spends most of his time thinking about how to make reading on a screen the best possible experience for human readers. We wanted to find out what's on… -
Cleartype Team - Typography in Windows VistaWe always enjoy meeting with Bill Hill, so we thought we'd drop in on him with our camcorder and talk with the ClearType team again and see what's the latest with the fonts in Windows Vista.Those Japanese fonts sure are beautiful!We talk about trends in display resolution, research done in… -
1 hour, 28 minutes, 22 secondsBill Hill - A Hike Around Microsoft's Forests (Happy Birthday Video #5)Last year Bill Hill, director of advanced reading technologies, was our first interview. And one of our most popular to boot. One thing we remembered from last year was his explanation that Windows is not the most important OS. It's a bit long (an hour and a half), but you'll learn all… -
0 minutes, 44 secondsBill Hill - Do you think anyone is going to read a book on the screen?Bill Hill talks about the difficulties in making the reading experience on the screen good enough so that people will read entire books on the screen. (He claims that ClearType got people interested in reading long passages on the screen for the first time).What will get you to read a book on the… -
3 minutes, 20 secondsBill Hill - What were the influences in your life?Bill Hill, head of the typography department here, talks about the influences his parents played in his life. What influenced you to get involved in computers/technology? -
3 minutes, 30 secondsBill Hill: Homo sapiens 1.0 - The world's most important operating systemThe most important operating system developers write software for is not Windows or OSX or Linux or Android. It's Homo sapiens 1.0. We make software for people first. Very wise words from a very wise soul, Bill Hill. Bill passed away on October 16, 2012 from a sudden heart attack. We are all…
