{"id":204,"date":"2005-09-21T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2005-09-21T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T17:30:13","slug":"alright-lets-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/204","title":{"rendered":"Alright, let’s do this"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m too busy for this. I don’t have the effing time to go around spreading my opinion on issues of computing, software, design, etc. There are so many pressing matters I should be tending to…but I need to vent. <\/p>\n

DON’T WATCH THIS MICROSOFT PROPAGANDA VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n

Or watch it, at your own discretion. So Microsoft has been doing this thing lately where they send out this guy to interview developers on Microsoft’s various projects. The videos<\/a> are generally somewhat boring…most of the time it’s just a bunch of guys<\/em> sitting around in a room acting really geeky and talking about software (which resembles my life a little too clearly, but at least we have a few women around). <\/p>\n

What I learned today, however, is that these “uncut” movies are actually a clever ploy by Microsoft to try to earn back its much needed core of amateur software developers (or professional ones who don’t like to develop for Microsoft). How did I learn this? Well, if you pay close attention, you’ll notice that the videos are actually cut together to say exactly the types of things the people at Microsoft want you to hear<\/em>. <\/p>\n

For example, the video linked above is a visit to the Hotmail team, who has been busy creating the new version of Hotmail, codenamed “Kahuna.” The guy behind the camera asks the question, “So, does this work on browsers other than IE?” Answer: “Yeah, we’re developing for IE 5.5.96###, because that’s our biggest user group”–CUT!!!– Next we see a guy explaining a new feature. It’s nice to know there’s some honest reporting going on out there. <\/p>\n

The other thing that really upsets me is that at the beginning of the video one of the developers describes how they went in to a room and tried to rethink email on the web. They weren’t trying to build a system like the old Hotmail, or any other mail software. Creativity is a great thing. They had an outstanding opportunity here…but they failed. When they actually showed the demo of the new Hotmail, it looked exactly<\/em> like MS Outlook. WTF Microsoft!!!??? That’s what you get when you tried to be creative? Something’s wrong with that picture. I wonder if they even tried talking to users…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m too busy for this. I don’t have the effing time to go around spreading my opinion on issues of computing, software, design, etc. There are so many pressing matters I should be tending to…but I need to vent. DON’T WATCH THIS MICROSOFT PROPAGANDA VIDEO Or watch it, at your own discretion. So Microsoft has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hci-topic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t