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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.'"
Microsoft are going to ditch the NT mega-kernel and use Plan 9 instead. These are the first tentative steps in the migration from the huge monolithic NT ring-main to the elegance that is Plan 9. [deep voice] From the people who brought you Unix, PLAN 9 [/voice] Da da daaaaaaah bom-bom bom-bom bom-booom
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
I give you 7 of 9
Not sure just how quiet it can be now that it's being seen by MILLIONS OF USERS EVERY MINUTE.
Does registration require removing my shoes?
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I would not fly a constantly crashing plane anymore.
There you are, staring at me again.
The most important operating system is not Windows.
Finally Microsoft figured it out.
EVERYDAY IS CATURDAY
I spend enough of the day on slashdot and fark.
I don't have time to listen to Codekeeper Willie talk about typesetting and anthropology.
Proceed to put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye...
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not trying to sound snide or rude. That said, there are several things on the page that don't display properly in browsers other than WinIE, like Opera & Firefox, such as the top bar of the poll on the right. Fix that, and maybe I'll consider going back. Until then, not worth my time.
Ok, someome please tell me I'm not the only one who heard Lawrence's voice from Office Space, yelling "Hey Peter! Check out Channel 9! Breast exam!"
--JoeProgram Intellivision!
That 'Bill Hill' guy is very charismatic...
:) Every byte helps up their server bill (Anyone got any info on how much bandwidth microsoft/msdn.com uses? And what it's hosted on?)
Two points: 1: I really like to see this sorta thing from big companies, gives them a personal touch. That's why Google is so good - not afraid to be more personal and real.
Also, M$ must be sucking bandwidth streaming those videos to every slashprole.
When listening to Channel 9 on United, you aren't actually listening to the internal cockpit communications you are listening to the cockpit's communications with the terminal and centre controllers. And that's where the irony is; the controllers are telling the pilot(s) where to go and what altitude to fly at, etc, that is, ATC has the real control of how things pan out. So while you might be helping to fly the plane [into the ground] you really have no say in how the plane gets to it's destination. And, furthermore, the real irony is that all this communication and procedures that the passenger is listening to is something that basically hasn't changed in the past several decades.
Maybe you have to be a pilot to fully understand what I mean.
-dr
If you want to reach more folks: Can we instead talk to a developer who wants to talk about the best way of doing things, rather than someone whose job is to come up with problems where MS is the solution?
This sort of "gee whiz we're just regular guys, we're going to let you peek under the tent" sort or pr-marketing speak rings so false and just raises my BS detectors to max.
I spent years dealing with Apple's evangelists and while they'd do this sort of thing occasionally usually they were smart enough enough to treat their developers as being vaguely intelligent
Fallejeha fallejehe fallejehe, Chris Waddle
Boutros boutros ghali
(Or do you mean a different Channel 9?)
Bleagh...
"There's companies that are just so cool that you just can't even deal with it," - Bill Gates, about Google
The videos are much more interested to watch than the text is to read. I get a much better feel about what the person is saying through expression, tone, etc. It's obviously more natural to get information from someone in this way than through text.
What a crappy site. It doesn't render properly with Mozilla/Firefox and as soon I went to the page, I was hit with a bunch of ActiveX controls trying to run. No thanks. Maybe if they want to try to interest other developers in MS, they should NOT REQUIRE MS stuff. The main page has more then 300 HTML errors according to W3C. Come on now. It is not hard to make a little HTML, honest! There is no coding involved. Oh, and this site is .Net. You can see what great standards compliant HTML MS's Web Forms spit out.
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it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
Daviid: Quando es il dejeuner que la nyktos?
La Rutha: O no. Aga non es functivo, ma microsoftos destructivos la dejeuner.
Daviid: De nada. Mater que pater beefsteak cuisinarti tel para.
Lizabet: El parenticos favoritos!
Alberto: Scorchio!
Who does Microsoft thing they are appealing to? A bunch of 10 year olds? I'd be a little concerned about the conversation going on inside the cockpit. "Ever seen a grown man naked?"
---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.
I would try to come up with a name for it that is an acronym for "Borg," but I'm feeling really tired this afternoon.
AAAAHHHHHHH! Watch out for that giant freaking penguin that's about to eat the plane!!!!
Aw, hell. It's too late anyway.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
I realize the the CB craze pre-dates most slashdot subscribers (and perhaps technical evangelists)...
On CB radios, channel 9 is the channel used for emergencies. Pretty interesting double entendre.
I don't know if I would want to listen in on the crew.
5. Hey dude, got anything to eat? I've really got the muchies right now.
4. Do you smell that? <sniff> <sniff> It's like a burning smell...
3. Dallas Tower, we have a flameout on starboard engine 2.
2. Jesus H. Cripes, Climb! Climb!
And the number one thing you don't want to hear on channel 9:
1. Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name...
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Or you could do the evil commie thing and keep your money to yourself and help people all around the world by using free software. Hire that uneployed IT guy on your block and help a programmer make a living. You won't be sorry you did.
Yep, that business about closed source helping programmers make money WAS A LIE. If 70 billion dollars in the bank, pema-temps and H1B slaves were not evidence enough of where this "Intelectual Property" BS was going, Hyperbad should be.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I'm reading these people's posts, and ... I know that slashdotters can be pretty dumb, and many of us are the type to get wedgies in high school, but we don't project a face that's that lame, do we? Geeks without the rebel in them are just ... dorks.
Even our windows supporters are way more hardcore than those dweebs.
Huh? Is this a joke or something? Well, if it is a joke, I just don't get it. Oh.. wait, is this a joke about Microsoft? Perhaps about Windows? Wait, that might be it. Windows crashing right? Is that the joke? Are you saying Windows crashes a lot and making a joke about that? Oh, yeah, wow. That is funny. Wow. Good stuff. I'd mod you up if I could because I wouldn't have thought of something that funny. No, my humor is much more dull than jokes about Microsoft Windows crashing. Heh. I probably would have made some dumb joke about a blue screen. Not very original. But, wow, a joke about it crashing is much funnier.
Thank you so much.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
Wow, they are reel cool.
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/.ers can as well. Like I said, these guys are reel cool.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID
I recognize half those things (perticularly the CPU fan and the soda can "graveyard") as part of my life at some point in time, and I'm sure other
Seriously, couldn't this have been handled by an additional group in the microsoft.* usenet hierarchy? Including automatic replication to servers all over the world -- for free...
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SVM, ERGO MONSTRO.
found it: Famous Last Words
Are they really paid to sing all the day : "Microsoft is good and they are friendly" ?
Yes, that's basically what they do. Plus they try to convince people that their platform is cool and cutting-edge. Basically what every Linux user does for free (although often not very well). But to be fair, Apple's the one that started it as a paid position, and others besides (such as Be) did the same thing, so it isn't like Microsoft is doing something singularly evil in this regard.
Glad to oblige...
How funny that they chose a commercial airliner as an analogy to their new "outreach" program -- I mean, you certainly wouldn't expect the pilots of an aircraft to be taking input from the passengers on how to fly the plane, would you? Exactly. Neither does Microsoft.
So I can pick another. For some strange reason I just don't want my flight from Atlanta to Phoenix "blue-screening".
Uhm, ok so my reasoning isn't so strange.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
Questions that arose after a brief visit to Ch.9:
1. Why would I "help them fly the plane?"
2. Why would I contribute *anything* to Microsoft(positive/negative comment, let alone code) - so they could turn around and eihter sell it or maybe even use it against me?
3. How much are Bill Hill and the rest of Microsoft alumni paid for their blog appearances and patronizing comments like "The most important operating system is not Windows"? (coming from a guy on Microsoft's payroll, this comes across as almost hypocritical)
4. What's up with dorky one-size-too small gray golf shirts?
Seriously, what is the point of Channel 9?
Oh yeah, and BeOS called and it wants its color scheme back.
David Becker is another clueless reporter. Channel 9 is a signalling and emergency channel used by all users of VHF/UHF/CB. It has nothing specific to do with planes or airlines. -SIGH- It's a channel anyone can use, so it assumes open use, possibly collaboration.
Do reporters actually check on facts there days? Or just write the first thing that comes to their head after leaving the airport.
'Five of us in Redmond are crazy enough to think
The Fav Five want me to join them in their cock pit? No, I wont do it!!!