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tobleroneisbest
Jan Kratochvíl

Big Smile This was definitely the best episode yet. Btw I hope that the Channel 9 Silverlight player is going to get Smooth Streaming from Silverlight 3 really soon

aL_
Rx ftw

now,, in the intreset of fairness, i gotta ask max to slap laura and paul in the next ep Wink

also, chrome os to be the end of microsoft? ppfffft.. there are already light OS:es out there that does this. the asus eepc comes with a light os mainly targeted at browsing and such, and guess what? microsoft is still here Smiley also, consider this, whatever you can do in chrome os you can do already in chrome or any other browser today... and do you think they'll let you change browser? or even search provider? not bloodly likely.. not to mention that chrome os isnt even closed to beta and will be mor elikely to compete with windows 8 rather than win 7 Tongue Out

i think the web only mentality is a little off target.. why are all these twitter clients popping up if the browser is so great? because users want rich, fast experences and the generic browser + javascript just cant do that as well as client/ria frameworks.

i think people confuse the web with the browser. a twitter client is also a browser, but more specialized, i'd argue that any program that talks to the web is a browser. in that sense silverlight and flash are also browsers, they are just hosted in another browser Tongue Out ..anyway.. rambled passed the point there i guess Smiley

@hard drive weight
yeah thats a lot of ..por*cough*.. data Tongue Out

msftwise
msftwise

Awesome Smiley

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

So what is the Monday announcement? Is is Office 2010 preview?

ChrisStepaniuk

Google's OS, OK, well, I guess this was an eventuality. Apparently web ads aren't enough; we need to have banner space in our living rooms too. I think in some respects the Google OS is almost a direct response to Live Search, which is now Bing Search. Microsoft entered that market, and now Google is responding, in their way. The one thing I will give Google is when they commit to something, it’s quite awesome. Chrome for example, came out quite quickly, and for a v1 product, was really good. Didn't have some stuff, but hey, they will get there.

In some respects I wish that Microsoft would spend more time on web standards in IE than things like "accelerators". Nice feature, but rendering pages correctly is more important to me. Perhaps integrating MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) in IE is an option Smiley .

I don't think Google OS will appeal to my Mom or Dad, they are still Mac and Windows users respectively. For coders, hackers, etc, and those of the like, those geeks enjoy controlling all the "metal" in their pockets, and will tweak the heck out of it. Good for them, Google will capture this market.

I think YouTube should switch to Silverlight, maybe then my browser won't crash as much Smiley . I personally blame Flash for 90% of browser "embarrassment".

Slapping Max? Ok, you guys may need supervision in the future. Max you are not annoying, just gregarious.

p.s. could guys should make an h264 version for the iPhone, so I can watch you from Vancouver later this week Smiley

Kryptos
Backup People!

In reply to ChrisStepaniuk

#Jul 13th @ 2:36 PM

The video do stream on iPhone using..... Smiley

Duncanma
Just Coding for Fun...

In reply to ChrisStepaniuk

#Jul 13th @ 2:36 PM

I'll have to check, but our videos are available in h264 already and should play on the iPhone

Joiseystud

In reply to Duncanma

#Jul 13th @ 4:13 PM

I just checked and the iPod(mp4) download is in fact h.264

warjan

Is your statement about there is price to free hold true for Micrsoft or any other company affiliated with it that offers free web services and tools or only those that compete with MS?

Saying that privacy is gone when user uses Google tools is FUD. They are as much obliged and commited to protect users privacy as any other company.