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Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

miker71 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:14:58 -0000

Good grief, did nobody play Elite on their microcomputers 25 years ago?

Impressive, yes. I expect to see a new version of Elite using this technology. I expect Microsoft to go the extra mile (or should that be light year) instead of waiting for somebody else to do it.

And a lot of those images will be familiar to anyone who has bookmarked APOD. I also recall something similar (if perhaps innaccurate) at the beginning of the Hollwywood movie "Contact".

Get out of the house once in a while and you might realise the stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones. If WWT helps Americans realise this, so much the better for the rest of the world.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

davidarno — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:27:07 -0000

It's a new product called "WorldWide Telescope".

Why is it that no one can keep a secret any more? More at http://www.davidarno.org/164

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

David Hanson — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:26:08 -0000

Was it IE8 running with full WC3 standards support?

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

William McKnee — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:17:40 -0000

Microsoft will present Windows Vista SP2 and SP3 immediately after rolling out SP1. A major leap forward is the decision to rename the fake administrator account to 'genuine advantage administrative account' which will be hidden by default and may only be retrieved by deleting registry entries as a halfpoweruser (hpu), which will be blocked by default and may only be unblocked by downloading admanpack (450Mb, webinstall only). New expensive courses are being set up so engineers can study their asses off figuring out how to log off, how to change their wallpaper and how to call Microsoft Customer Nag Service in case the machine gets locked entirely.

Minimum requirements for SP3: 8,6GHz or better triple core, 1Tb free memory, 5 extra harddisks, three NT4 recovery floppies, a floppydrive and a 50-digit personal private genuine advantage code, which will be put on a personalized webpage just once, right after your hundreds of dollars payment has been collected.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Karim — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:49:23 -0000

The thing I’m talking about is NOT anything you’ve seen Microsoft do before.

Snack food?

Though it would have to be really, really, REALLY good to wring a tear from my eye. We're talking Anton Ego, flashback-to-childhood good. You know, Proust's madeleines and all that.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Phil — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:13:27 -0000

Scoble and Microsoft.
Who is using whom?

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

James O'Neill — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:00:29 -0000

Robert, saying who it was that showed you stuff allowed people to work out what area it was in.

Keeping to the letter of an embargo, but not the spirit of it can only have the effect of making people think twice before telling you anything. Not a good thing in your line of work.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Montoya — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:50:01 -0000

So you don't work for Microsoft anymore and yet you are still causing them trouble? Can't you give them a break?

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Christopher Coulter — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:06:17 -0000

two people big and hasn’t yet shown very many people their work.

Well, not directly maybe, but my 'network' already (supposedly) knows, could goto the sky on it, but granted my word. But a few things to keep in mind, it's not a product release, they let other product teams do that, and from my drumbeat, it's more a conference demo of sorts, the "emotions" more from the "content" than the "technology" itself. How's that for pulling a Scobleish "talk-about-it-while-not-talking-about-it." ;)

That said, by hyping it you killed it. Everyone will look, but it won't meet expectations, nor the runaway speculations, except for the geeky cave-people that get "emotional" over Excel and Pagemaker.

Heh, too funny, hyping up a demo, not even a product release itself, slim-pickings there at Microsoft, eh? And even if Research makes good, the parent company will drop the ball, and even if (by some miracle of God) they don't drop the ball, the market won't take. And if the market takes (miracle #2), getting it to a decent Version 2 or 3, will require serious Xbox-like subsidization, and Bungie-like forceable buy-outs.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Greg Birch — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:04:22 -0000

It's not the cool stuff at Microsoft I don't expect, it's how they trash the people that create it. Sorry to say it but the small teams that make cool stuff get eaten by bureaucratic bloat. I hope hope hope that changes, I really like Microsoft, it was so exciting growing up with that company close by and watching it grow. There WAS a time when everyone was excited about MSFT and what was coming NEXT but then Jobs took that...

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Herschel — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:02:12 -0000

Hey, Robert, you said " I thought Tablet PC and Origami (and Vista) would be far more significant than they turned out to be (several people pointed that out, and they were right to do so)."

Well, you were right about the Tablet PC being a big impact technology, except it wasn't Microsoft's Tablet PC, it was Apple's. The iPhone is the X generation Tablet PC in my humble opinion.

Technology forecasting isn't a science anyway, so keep looking for us all.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

LiquidBoy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:54:04 -0000

we all need inspiration in our lives what with all the crap thats currently going on. I for one am waiting avidly for this announcement. Thx Scooble for raising awareness of this, you did what Microsoft would of paid over a million bux for...

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Prokofy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:35:20 -0000

Oh! I know! they have a Second Life island. And they're making a widget. HTML on a prim! Finally! And not a moment too soon are going to put that up any minute. And yes, this will revolutionize virtual worlds.

They could call it Worlds for Windows. I will sell them that idea for $1.5 million. There. I'll be waiting for my check in the mail now, kthx.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Eric — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:55:56 -0000

Must have been a holodeck :)

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Shafqat — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:09:40 -0000

So you got excited about a new, innovative product. I dont see anything wrong with that. In fact, its nice to see people get passionate about something. I dont see what all the fuss is about.

BTW, I think being limited to two people does not limit the POTENTIAL of any team or their product. I know you didnt say it would, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Yahoo was started by two people, same with Google! Whether or not it lives up to the hype, I see nothing wrong with the hype itself.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Robert Scoble — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:46:47 -0000

Joao: you're so far off it isn't funny. Sorry.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Joao Pedrosa — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:40:32 -0000

Microsoft has major traction on the client-side/UI. I fear it will have something to do with this strength.

Perhaps it will be a new take on Mashups and widgets. 2d/3d can be used from the organization point of view. But a security sandbox comes first.

I fear it will make have use of .NET's features. :-)

It could reinvent the Web browser at the same time. Then again, maybe it shouldn't.

But having a heavy modern touch, and media touch, it could provide for some cool effects. It could make use of integrated browser widgets and RSS reader widgets or things like that, the user being able to customize it all.

By integrating cool features, it could in the soon future be integrated in the next versions of Windows. Think mobile or Windows 2010.

The appeal could have to do with allowing users to customize and organize in multiple ways. And it will have a huge media and Internet traction.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Robert Scoble — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:21:49 -0000

Dan: yup, you got a 50/50 shot there! :-)

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Dan Guy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:20:09 -0000

"This is just a service that inspired me and made me react emotionally, in a way that few things I see make me react."

You seem to fly off the handle emotionally every few days, so... This is either really good or yet another tornado of empty hype.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

spragued — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:10:02 -0000

Re: Microsofties complaining about too much attention being paid to one of their innovations, please. When was the last time they had that problem? They gave a tour to a *blogger*. And your heart's clearly in the right place, so you don't need to apologize.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

syahidali — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:57:47 -0000

can't wait to see what is worth crying for.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:35:55 -0000

Whatever it is...

I AM NOT INSTALLING SILVERSHIT!!1!

period.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Robert Scoble — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:47:32 -0000

Dave: no one asked me to backpedal. I just am seeing people take it into weird areas and see that I might have done some serious harm to something pretty darn cool.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Robert Scoble — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:46:48 -0000

Jeff: I agree with you, sort of. Is CERN going to change your life? Absolutely. But will it be usable anytime soon? No. Even after the findings come out, the data shared there won't really be useful to normal people for quite some time. Of course that lab also spun out a small thing called the World Wide Web. Totally unexpected and totally huge.

Let's talk again on March 3.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

DMGONZO — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:38:11 -0000

Whoa - How many Microsofters (Microhoos?) called you to start backpedaling today? Yikes!