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Microsoft Launches 'Channel 9' Blog
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michael
on Tue Apr 06, 2004 06:12 PM
from the let's-all-fly-the-plane dept.
from the let's-all-fly-the-plane dept.
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.'"
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Ben Galliart writes "Microsoft's Port 25 blog, the voice of MS Linux Labs and a spin-off from the MS Channel 9 blog, has an interview with Miguel de Icaza where they discuss the Gnome and Mono projects. It is a nice change of pace to see Microsoft go from attacking Novell and Linux to interviewing a Novell employee about a Linux desktop system. Port 25 has come under some fire since they can not always be trusted. Port 25 has on occasion put out FUD such as claiming Microsoft is doing more to improve security than any other vendor and a security guide attacking Red Hat for not providing security updates for Red Hat v9 despite that Red Hat ended support back in 2004. They have also released a password synchronization daemon for Red Hat, AIX, HPUX and Solaris that must run as root and makes several calls to strcpy() (which violates Microsoft's guidelines for doing secure coding)."
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Outer space strikes back (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday April 27 2007, @02:20PM)
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
Re:Outer space strikes back (Score:4, Funny)
(http://255.255.255.255/)
Ladies and Gentlemen (Score:3, Funny)
Thank you (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday December 14 2006, @05:43PM)
I would not fly a constantly crashing plane anymore.
Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Saturday July 30 2005, @12:51PM)
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.
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Informative)
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Professor Frinke: Are you kidding? ! This sarcasm detector is off the charts!
CBG: Oh, a sarcasm detector- that's a *real* useful invention.
device explodes
First Headline (Score:5, Funny)
(http://longc.at/ | Last Journal: Sunday February 22 2004, @09:46PM)
Finally Microsoft figured it out.
Re:First Headline (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Which is funny because at the same time they are talking about listening, they are also working on the next service pack for their flagship product, and the whole service pack is focussed on nothing but security. But of course, you won't count that since it would get in the way of your complaining.
As if I don't have enough to read up on (Score:5, Funny)
I don't have time to listen to Codekeeper Willie talk about typesetting and anthropology.
Not surprising... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.pvponline.com/)
Re:Not surprising... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.pvponline.com/)
The back-end language & web server shouldn't matter. You should still be able to generate a standards-compliant page that looks great in modern browsers. Instead, their front page has 366 errors [w3.org] on it.
Now, I'm not one of those people who insists every page has to validate, but this is just sloppy. MSDN, not just Channel 9, reeks of it, too. I suppose one could argue that you can't blame them, as they are Microsoft, so of course they're going to code to their browser, but I don't buy that argument.
Hey Peter! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://sdk-1600.spatula-city.org/ | Last Journal: Monday October 01, @05:36PM)
Ok, someome please tell me I'm not the only one who heard Lawrence's voice from Office Space, [imdb.com] yelling "Hey Peter! Check out Channel 9! Breast exam!"
--Joethe irony of this (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.edgeoftheearth.com/)
Maybe you have to be a pilot to fully understand what I mean.
-dr
They're all "technical evangelists" (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
I hate this ... (Score:5, Interesting)
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
Re:I hate this ... (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.rsvpair.com/)
6. Don't shock the system. Lasting change only happens in baby steps.
7. Know when to turn the mic off. There are some topics which will only result in problems when you discuss them. This has nothing to do with censorship, but with working within the reality of the system that exists in our world today. You will not change anything by taking on legal or financial issues, you will only shock the system, spook the passengers, and create a negative situation.
Re:Technical evangelist ? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.ttaxus.com/)
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.
Scorchio! (Score:5, Funny)
Boutros boutros ghali
(Or do you mean a different Channel 9?)
Don't bother visiting with Firefox (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.otakurama.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday September 12 2002, @10:40AM)
Bleagh...
Re:Don't bother visiting with Firefox (Score:5, Informative)
2.That quote refers to Bill Hill, not Gates.
3.And no, it doesn't. Update to a decent build.
If there's one thing people hate, it's when you solve their problems, eh.
Video Blog (Score:5, Interesting)
That site is crap! (Score:5, Interesting)
Help them fly the plane? (Score:5, Funny)
EULA requires neural implant DRM dongle (Score:5, Funny)
(http://home.comcast.net/~stefan_jones | Last Journal: Monday May 16 2005, @06:21PM)
Watch out! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://lawpoop.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday May 28 2004, @06:51PM)
AAAAHHHHHHH! Watch out for that giant freaking penguin that's about to eat the plane!!!!
Aw, hell. It's too late anyway.
The Other Channel 9 (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Friday January 02 2004, @08:34PM)
On CB radios, channel 9 is the channel used for emergencies. Pretty interesting double entendre.
Free Long Distance to India? (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://lists.clickers.org/linuxsig/index.html | Last Journal: Wednesday November 28, @09:12PM)
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.
Wow. Windows developers have got no soul... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.rsvpair.com/)
Even our windows supporters are way more hardcore than those dweebs.
Channneel Naaaain! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://solitudo.net/)
Reel cool guys. (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://sharph.net/)
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
Five of us in Redmond... (Score:5, Insightful)
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...
Please tell me the airline... (Score:3, Funny)
Uhm, ok so my reasoning isn't so strange.
Wow, Microsoft discovered blogs (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/)
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.
"Named for the audio channel...." I'm sorry? (Score:3, Informative)
(Last Journal: Wednesday April 05 2006, @10:30AM)
Do reporters actually check on facts there days? Or just write the first thing that comes to their head after leaving the airport.
Scary (Score:3, Funny)
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'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!!!