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Microsoft Launches 'Channel 9' Blog
Decaffeinated Jedi writes "As reported by News.com, Microsoft quietly launched Channel 9, a blog/discussion forum aimed at improving communication with outside developers, on Tuesday. Named for the audio channel that many airlines use to let passengers listen in on crew conversations during flight, Channel 9's creators state the following in a welcoming message: 'Five of us in Redmond are crazy enough to think we just might learn something from getting to know each other...Join in, and have a look inside our cockpit and help us fly the plane.'"
PS: Isn't he gay??
Gotta ask, "where's Al Queda when you need 'em"?
*** Sigs are a stupid waste of bandwidth.
I want to puke. Can't they spend more effort cleaning their code base and fixing bugs? If they did that I would actually start buying their shit.
The sad fact surrounding this post is that MS is not trying to reach folks, it's probably a site devoted to try to pull the linux on desktop people back to windows. See the fancy Wiki? See the link to developers? A clever impersonation of the open development model, when in fact it's the same bottom line.
The funny part about channel9.msdn.com is that it outlines why security will never be M$'s forte. The development cycle (which they partially outline) doesn't give enough freedom for fixing of bugs and complete testing before release, which is why security holes will continue to haunt M$ like a raging case of herpes. No OS is free from security holes, but when live systems are at risk for months with no patches, the opportunity cost of loss becomes a real factor.
Which comes back to the 'technical evangelists.' The site is aimed at providing 'customer satisfaction,' obviously. Their hoping that pissed customers will watch some movies and forget that the latest virus/worm/trojan/malware is crippling their network. So M$ has hired some evangilists to talk people down (after reinstall after reinstall) and convince everyone that M$ has a real commitment to making good software. Ha ha.
You're misreading the statement. They mean "Please! For the love of God! Does anybody know how to fly this thing!?"
Riddle me this Microsoft.
.NET solve? Why can't I still use the feature rich Win32 API going forward?
- What problem does
- SOAP/XML is open. Why are you obfuscating your implementation?
- As Win32 developer, are you moving to a subscription model for Windows? How does that benefit me? Will users have to click on some security OK button for the programs I write?
-Is Microsoft willing to concede the enterprise database environment running on linux clusters to Oracle and DB2? Where is SqlServer on Linux clusters? I'd like to code for generic database access. It's what the client wants, not what I or Microsoft wants.
-As a computer programmer (embedded windows/linux/ARM etc), I'd like Microsoft to mean cross-platform to be across cpu's/OS's. Not WinX cross platform. It's stupid, it's misleading and it's downright false advertising. When are you going to update the NT Posix subsystem?
Enjoy,
It's just the normal noises in here.
It's not highlighted? Click on Microstof Airpilot Application Help......click on search, type in "Microsoft Joystick Application Elevation Lifter not highlighted". Then you find:
Just double click on the Microsoft Airpilot Joystick Application, then double click on the Microsoft Airpilot Joystick Application Menu. Then right click on the Microsoft Joystick Application Elevation Lifter.
Uh...oh....Good-Bye Microsoft Application Cruel World of Impossibly Long and Boring Names for Every Little Thing!
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Technically, we are beyond survival.
Bill is now posting his life story on the internet for all to read?! So when is it going to come out that he knocked up some chick at SCO? :)
No. That's not at all true.
Here in the US corporations have MORE rights and superior status than the individual.
It's okay if you want to bash the US, but at least get your facts straight.
Just once, I'd like it if someone called me "Sir".
Without adding, "You're creating a scene."