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Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Richard Brown — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:34:24 -0000

Better late than never, it looks like the media world are finally discovering just how untrustworthy David Richards is.

It appears he's been stealing stories from other news organizations and then pretending he wrote them, for years. The claim is that he's plagiarized hundreds of stories by copying and pasting. He claims that it wasn't him, his PC was hacked...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

SAW — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:42:40 -0000

All this fuss because someone lent too much credibility to the "journalist" at the center of the storm in the first place ... it could even turn out he didnt even write the original article to start with ...

http://www.bigpicturebigsou...

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Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

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Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

video news — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:37:45 -0000

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Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

over-reacting — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:54:31 -0000

Maybe they meant that 60% was being fixed and reviewed.

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

bobcorrigan — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:53:19 -0000

In other news from inside MSFT, a "Microsoft insider" has revealed that there is a great bloody altar in the basement of building 4 where kittens and puppies are being sacrificed around the clock in a frantic attempt to appease the Dark Gods of QA to reduce their threshhold for quality from "60% needs to be re-written" to "10% needs to be re-written".

Hey, if they'll buy the first story, they'll buy this one too.

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

scobleizer — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:24:49 -0000

WR: that's the best flame aimed at me I've read in years!

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

WR — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:09:13 -0000

Who the hell is this Robert Scoble guy? And what track record does he have in breaking stories? He seems great at kissing the backside of Microsoft and telling everyone else how to write stories about his beloved employer. Where is his credibility when clearly he is turned into an emotional wreck every time some one dares to say boo to Microsoft? He even has a Royal “We ARE asking for a retraction”. He or Microsoft? Funny I don’t find Robert Scoble listed in Microsoft’s office spokesperson list. In fact all today we have tried to get a Microsoft executive to speak to us on the record about Vista but they refuse. I wonder why?

As for Scoble, his is a guy who wants every one to believe that he is the authority on Microsoft. He’s not Mark Smith the former editor of Windows Magazine and a good friend has in the past broken many a good Microsoft yarn and he is not as painful as Scoble to put up with.

It also appears that Scoble has a bigger ego than Donald Trump and is more emotional than John McEnroe with a bad line call.

The bottom line is that Microsoft are in deep shit with Vista and both Microsoft and Intel could well have the consumer market taken away from them by one of 4 key players, IBM and Sony, Apple and Google in the near future.

Despite all the billions in the bank, years of so called research and employees who think that they are god’s gift to the tech world Microsoft has failed the consumer by delivering software that does not work. Microsoft Media Centre is a classic example.

Even I know from talking to consumers in the CE market that what they want is easy to use entertainment software that works across, vision devices, audio and automation applications.

What Microsoft has attempted to do is deliver Vista as an all singing all dancing OS for application and entertainment computing when research shows that consumers are NOT interested in application computing when sitting in front of a screen watching a movie or downloading music or playing games.

If Microsoft were half smart, but then again they do have Scoble on there side they should have initiated a marketing strategy whereby they got consumers to fork up for two OS licence fees. One for application computing the second for a slick entertainment OS, or alternatively thrown the entertainment OS in for free.

The big fear for both the Windows team and the Xbox team right now is that the likes of IBM and Sony could deliver a stunning easy to use entertainment/automation OS running on a PS3 type box. They already have the IBM Sony developed Cell processor which no one has really seen in action. I am told it is white hot and delivers blistering speed and graphics so I would not be writing Sony off as a key player in the CE and gaming market.

Or alternatively Apple come along and steal their OS market share in the CE market by delivering a MAC OS media centre type solution running on an Intel Viiv platform. Just imagine the CE market in 3 years time with Apple and Sony IBM going head to head, with Microsoft only getting a look in with the Xbox. It’s highly possible.

Despite all the billions, years of so called research and stru

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

James Summerlin — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:25:05 -0000

Robert Scoble,

I'm only going to say this once, so you had best pay attention:

Thanks for doing a great job! You and Lord Raymond Chen are my favorite MS bloggers! Hang in there, for I assure you there are those among us who appreciate your hard work!

James

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Christopher Coulter — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:06:49 -0000

After Vista and Office get delayed, instead of a thoughtful measured response, Scoble goes half-cocked on some journalist that danced the usual idle speculational game. If you turned the tables and yanked every Evangelist Marketer for playing vaporware fuzzy number games, you'd be firing half of Microsoft. That Vista-delay Press Release blaming 'Industry Deployment' practices was quite the double-take.

Mean, sensationalist, knee-jerk, shrill and attack dog, ouch. Dave Winer rubbing off on you. The fact that you are a happy-go-lucky fun-guy teddy bear in person is your saving grace, as it sure doesn't come thru on the blog. Kiss of Death indeed.

And you are a dimwit Marketing guy, this was sorta a pointless no-hit story, until you decided to toss it on the front page with the controversy. Crying bloody murder makes things headlines, you should know that. MP3's were nothing, domain of the geek, until Napster was sued, getting it headlines and millions and millions of users, making P2P impossible to stop no matter how many 12 year old girls they decide to sue. Quietly dismissing, and it's onto the new topic, screaming, and demanding someone's head, well people will think some truth to it. Your loud rants actually produce the opposite impact. This is what people call, irony.

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

John C. Welch — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:10:47 -0000

Robert,

For someone with a penchant for shooting your mouth off first, and checking facts second as you have, or writing links that are somewhat misleading, you may want to check your FIRE THE BASTARDS jihad.

You kind of don't have real moral high ground for this Robert. Really.

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Jordan — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:35:49 -0000

Not to be insulting anyone, especially not Robert, but have any of your posers actually looked into the vista code?

I'm sorry if you doid and I missed it, but my eyes are hurting and I'm about to go back to bed. But hoenstly. If you take a good look into it you might notice that there will be a rewrite, but it's not oing to be of megaginatormic proportions. 60% Qualifys as that word I just mentioned. It's going to be 10, maybe 15% rewrite, and not a very crucial part to the os anyway.

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

scobleizer — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:42:59 -0000

Jim: lots of people hate Microsoft. Nothing new.

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Jim Benson — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:26:51 -0000

My number one rule in blogging or blog commenting is:

Never post when angry.

People still have to convince me that they have been personally harmed by the delay.

I see a lot of second guessing of internal Microsoft processes and personal attacks here. What I don't see is a firm statement that says, "You know, I've been waiting up at night wishing on my lucky star that Vista will come down and save my marriage. Now that it's late, I've got to hire a family attorney."

Please, someone, tell me the reason for the outrage here. I need some context.

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Ross — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:14:07 -0000

Further evidence, I am not sure how someone from Acer knows what is happening internally but hey -

http://www.smarthouse.com.a...

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Dmad — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:57:13 -0000

This looks like NT5 all over again. It seems that at some point the Windows team got too feature happy. It is a huge project, to be sure. Now that they are code complete the struggle now is with deciding which bugs to fix and which bugs to punt. Testing is the major critical path now. So, I'm guessing they've put a stake in the ground, (finally) and said, based on the bugs still needing to be fixed and the testing required to ensure those bugs fixes work, they are now out to end of year. What I don't quite understand is the corporate vs consumer timelines. Scoble, would there be a way to find out what issues are causing the consumer release to be pushed out over the corporate release?

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

John Dowdell — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:25:16 -0000

Robert wrote: "well, in that case he just fired his credibility as a tech journalist and has proudly started a hoax and we all fell for it. Wonderful."

You are responsible for your own brain. Others cannot taint it without your consent.

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Athan — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:06:24 -0000

The problem seems to be that they (MS) have to remove every piece of damned managed code they included in Vista.
If so, then I don't mind if Vista delays even for years :)

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Ivo Andric — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:00:03 -0000

OMG You will need decades for bug-fixes?

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

anon — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:56:40 -0000

he just fired his credibility as a tech journalist and has proudly started a hoax and we all fell for it. Wonderful.

Windows Me

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Windows 2000

"Our primary goal is to improve security and safety for all our customers -- consumers and businesses, regardless of size -- through a balance of technology innovation, guidance and industry leadership," Gates said. "We're committed to continued innovation that addresses the threats of today and anticipates those that will undoubtedly emerge in the future."
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Windows XP

"Windows XP is the most secure and dependable operating system we have ever produced."
http://www.microsoft.com/pr...

Windows Vista

"In Vista, it should be much more difficult for unauthorized programs (like Viruses and Trojans) to affect the core of the OS and secretly harm your system."

Whose credibility is fired here?

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Jeroen Bulters — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:53:26 -0000

I find it a pity that Vista is delayed (again?). But does this have anything to do with large portions of code having to be rewritten? If the journalists really are journalists they would have checked this 60% figure with other MS developers (and/or managers) and - if they couldn't confirm the figure - should have never published it. People get sued for this kind of things over here (The Netherlands). If the 60% figure is just a fact of imagination, wouldn't a rectification be justified? Act like all Americans do (common misconception?)... sue the soab's...

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Barrie — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:36:59 -0000

Thank you for the polite and balanced response Bob ...

"If we knew the problem totally we’d fix it. We’re studying the problem."

That is what I was looking for ... Thank You!

I have had the opportunity to work with large numbers of professionals on 'critical' projects ... we met our deadlines in a manner that would be considered proportionality remarkable ... When on rare occasion we could not meet those deadlines we ensured that those who would be impacted adversely were given early notice so as to minimize negative results. We always tried to keep 'lead-time' within known team performance parameters ... but I will grant you the explanation above is more than suffice to my concern as a simple 'Day-To-Day' user of Microsoft products ...

I wish you well Bob ... and a life away from the R race that is an integral constuent of the IT business.

PS: If your ever lost on a backroad in Northern Saskatchewan follow the road grids home ....

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

scobleizer — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:07:10 -0000

Barrie: have you ever worked on a project with thousands of people? Ever tried to get something done on time with them? Ever slipped?

The problem is, how do you explain this? I know a book publisher. He often has single authors who miss deadlines. How do you explain that?

It isn't something that you can really explain to anyone's satisfaction. If we knew the problem totally we'd fix it. We're studying the problem. We're trying to get better. Software delays are nothing new and nothing exclusive to Microsoft.

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

Barrie — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:56:40 -0000

I wandered in here to try and find an honest rationale for the Vista Delay other than corporate incompetence but I still have yet to read one. Why is Microsoft not presenting a straightforward and factual reason for the delays thus far regarding this new OS.

Truthfully I'm content with the Microsoft products I have used for the past couple of decades (literally all of the consumer and office software made by MS) I've also used every OS that Microsoft has released without much hassle!

I take 'Patches' and 'Fixes' in stride (The world is imperfect in all venues) .... I do not however understand (to use an analogy) why from the expectant consumers vantage point it appears that at Microsoft right now the left hand is somewhat broadly disconnected from what the right hand is doing.

A company of Microsofts stature (and accomplishments/expertise) should have a little more management finesse when it plans for the development timeline of a major software product and its release date. The whole scenario smacks of a series of almost ironic Dilbert cartoon strips at the very core of the company.

PS: Bob I'm no tech Geek or expert in anything ... despite spending about 10,000 hours using these infernal machines ... I'm still just a well worn 57 year old Canadian writer (Not about Technology) who works and plays from a home office ... I'm competent in using the technology of the age by way of reading and applying others instructions/knowledge ... I can Wow them in my small village and among family and friends by what I can do with the software and hardware on a beige box (or White, Black, Grey & even Multicoloured) but it wouldn't cut me much slack or attention in a tech-lab ... but out here where it counts I can 'produce' results with the best of them using more applications than it is safe to give an old codger ...

So my 'Bias' - as such - is that of a 'User' in the 'Real World' .... just thought I should add that as you have concerns about who one is and where they are coming from (Oh yes -- I have no tech stock [0]in my limited investment portfolio)

Thanks for the very current Blog postings Bob ... but in closing I must reiterate that I still would like to read unadorned words sans sarcasm about why incessant delays are now so commonplace at Microsoft?

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

scobleizer — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:52:51 -0000

met: yes. Starting a blog WOULD make you more credible. Not to mention using a real name. And being someone who shows up at geek events once in a while.

I did take a vacation. You didn't notice that I didn't post for a few hours this week? :-)