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Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:57:00 -0000

This is just getting too depressing. Pizza delivery is decades behind in Europe. Could one of you unemployed guys please buy a bike, get a couple good American pizza recipes and start deliveries? I'd buy at least two a week, my son 5, each of his buddies 5-10. A fortune waiting for someone. And do improve those photos so I can see what's on your pizzas, while I wait.

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Dmad — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:26:53 -0000

what, exactly, do you know about Live.com that enables you to help? Or do they need someone to finish off the pizza?

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

J. Random Poster — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:14:50 -0000

Jens,

Sounds like Microsoft is finally adopting "truth in advertising".

-jcr

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Jens — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:40:35 -0000

oops it did it again. Bug report please. if you do two left facing brackets it'll cut off everything written after them.

Anyways, looks like scoble decided to just ignore my comment at #2, though international language research is important as one can see here.... ;-)

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Jens — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:38:55 -0000

oops, sorry the quoting doesn't quite work. It decided to cut everything off after

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Jens — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:35:52 -0000

>>The “WiX”-team?!? I strongly recommend doing some research before chosing abbreviations like that. I mean no German-speaking person will be able to keep a straight face when hearing that term.

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Jørgen Veisdal — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:06:44 -0000

This is just the coolest thing ever, I love seing stuff like this (the one with the IE team about RSS and that one with the tablet pc team) where you guys just hang out having pizza or coke, and talking. Imagine being able to hang around with people that are all interessted in the same things you are, they are the best at what they do and you can feed of eachothers ideas in making products used by an entire industry.

To fun.

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German — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:40:30 -0000

The "WiX"-team?!? I strongly recommend doing some research before chosing abbreviations like that. I mean no German-speaking person will be able to keep a straight face when hearing that term. That's why the Commodore VIC-20 whas labeled VC-20 over here, oh well...

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Brandon Paddock — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:59:59 -0000

Oh, and I know the Toolbar team down in california was up pretty late.

The WDS team certainly kept busy though.

I'm used to staying late when I'm working on something really interesting (Which is pretty much ALL the time). But last night I just had more company than usual =)

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Brandon Paddock — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:58:04 -0000

Jake, dude, seriously. Don't diss the pizza with pineapple on it!

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Jake — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:55:44 -0000

I was concerned that you all had become tree hugging bike riding environmentalists seeking rainy depressing climes.

Good to see there are a few manly men developing and deploying late at night and eating pizza. I hope that's pizza without pineapple on it.

Take that Open Source Developers. Take that Google. Microsofties still represent.

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Guzzard — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:04:55 -0000

When I first read this post, I thought, Open Source Windows? Then I read further. But, I was thinking an Open Source or Free version of Windows, nothing fancy, just something that does basic things, like Email and Web, doesn't support applications, just Live.com or such things, sorta like an applicance, but installable on any machine.

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

scobleizer — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:37:02 -0000

bubba: our MS Office file formats ARE open now. Or, didn't ya hear?

But, isn't it ironic that open source projects like MySQL rely on Microsoft developed technology? It MUST be evil!

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

bubba — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:34:13 -0000

An open source Windows installer. Bobby, you guys must be so proud. Wake us when you guys release an OSS project that means something. Like say, MS Office file formats...

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

scobleizer — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:21:52 -0000

Ahh, cool, I should have brought pizza over. I'm still in 18. It's 1:21 a.m.

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Matt Augustine — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:20:13 -0000

There are usually a few of us over here in RedWest on the late-night schedule.

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

scobleizer — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:14:07 -0000

Brandon, ahh, toolbar and desktop search teams working late too? Damn, what did we do, hire MarkL back? :-)

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Brandon Paddock — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:11:37 -0000

Sanaz' team wasn't the only one working late in RedWest!

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Mahesh — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:53:46 -0000

I just tried the new version and the image section shows no images in IE7 beta2.. Works fine on IE6
Please please make sure that this works in IE7 beta2

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

scobleizer — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:36:53 -0000

What I get paid for is doing videos on http://channel9.msdn.com.

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

scobleizer — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:36:09 -0000

I don't have a job. Jobs are things that you hate to do, but you get paid for.

I love what I am doing.

I'm sure not compensated to stay at the office from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. helping people out.

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Haarball — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:33:02 -0000

Is this your job? What is your job?

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

scobleizer — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:19:28 -0000

Paul, I just talked with Sanaz. They are in the middle of replicating the changes from one server over to their servers. Give it a few hours and it should get faster.

And, yes, we're all still here in the office. Looks like it'll be an allnighter for the Live.com team since they are working on ramping up their infrastructure.

Remember that Google has the same problems when starting up a new service too, if people find it too early (did anyone remember the little trick with Gmail of only handing out a few invites every hour so that they would make sure they didn't overwhelm their infrastructure?). Heck, my son stopped using Blogger because it was too slow and that's been up and running for years now.

Give the team a day to shake the cobwebs from the system before judging the performance.

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Paul Wheeler — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:02:31 -0000

Arg. Live.com keeps getting slower and slower. I'm considering going back to start.com. The MSN team may have changed their name but they *still* haven't learned the Google lesson: Simple and Fast Wins!

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

Drew B's take on tech PR — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:38:54 -0000

Do publish a vid!