Rob Short (and kernel team) - Going deep inside Windows Vista's kernel architecture | Going Deep

KevinB

First to reply.

Looking forward to this one, hooray for your blog scoble.

And where is the next singularity vid....

LaBomba
Summer

Happy holidays for the geeks indeed! Smiley

Saptak

Great! Will like see/hear more from Rob and his team in the future.

Charles
Welcome Change

Saptak wrote:
Great! Will like see/hear more from Rob and his team in the future.

We'll be talking to some of the folks Rob mentioned (the engineers who are making this stuff happen, plus more with Richard Ward on security in Windows...)

Also, stay tuned for a discussion with a couple Shell architects.

It's always a pleasure to listen to and learn from the big thinkers behind our technologies.

C

Charles
Welcome Change

KevinB wrote:

And where is the next singularity vid....

You mean this one?

jvervoorn
Caption

I've enjoyed most of the Channel 9 Videos. But this one was especially cool.

It would be really interesting to find out if someone at microsoft is looking at the problem of http://channel9.msdn.com/ctpmadness/ and also that software has to be installed or uninstalled in a specific order or it leaves the system in a bad state. For example I had a hard time getting CSharp Express 2005 Beta 2 off my system. I know it should not be installed on a production machine, yada yada, it's a beta, yada yada. But why must it effect, or should I be so bold as say infect, my system like that?

Slides19

Good lighting in this video. I hope every video has the same level of lighting as much as possible. I hate dark videos where you can barely see the person. Channel 9 needs to invest in some semi-pro lighting equipment. I know this goes against the philosophy of not being intimidating for the interviewee, but it will go a long way in making videos more clear.

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

Slides19 wrote:

Good lighting in this video. I hope every video has the same level of lighting as much as possible. I hate dark videos where you can barely see the person. Channel 9 needs to invest in some semi-pro lighting equipment. I know this goes against the philosophy of not being intimidating for the interviewee, but it will go a long way in making videos more clear.

Sorry, there's a lot of reasons why I will never use lights or professional microphones. It comes down to access and having a real conversation. I'm getting conversations no one else has gotten. Why? Because of access and because I don't make people feel uncomfortable.

Have you been in a TV studio with lights or have to put on a microphone? I have. It makes you very aware that you're being filmed. It makes you behave differently than you might if you just were meeting for lunch with some friends. It makes you less comfortable. (Not to mention that having to mike up four people like in this video is just impossible unless you have an audio crew along and then we're not doing a spontaneous one-hour meeting, we're doing something different.

I also need to be able to walk in, setup, and start shooting. Why? Because that makes it far more possible to get access to these types of people (and to conference rooms -- you did notice that at the end of this one we got kicked out of the conference room, right? These things are booked around the clock by teams). The more I have to setup equipment, the more time I'll need (I can't walk across campus with much heavy equipment, for instance -- it's already hard enough to get around campus with a 15lb tripod).

I try to get good lighting, but am stuck with what's there. Sorry about that, but my first priority is the conversation.

Slides19

Fair enough, it's your call and I can understand not wanting to carry equipment around all day long. Though I would suggest using well lit rooms like this one as much as possible when you gather folks for a group interview.

First time posting on Ch9, been watching your videos for a while and I really enjoy them. This has been a real PR coup for MS, even if very subtle.