Microsoft Launches 'Channel 9' Blog

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.'"

Outer space strikes back

[Space cowboy]

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 :-)

Ladies and Gentlemen

[Lasuuco Tulkas]

I give you 7 of 9 [msdn.com]

Quietly launched, huh?

[MukiMuki]

Not sure just how quiet it can be now that it's being seen by MILLIONS OF USERS EVERY MINUTE.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

[Rexburg]

Does registration require removing my shoes?

Re:Ladies and Gentlemen

[Space cowboy]

Damn, she's definitely gained a few pounds...

Simon.

Thank you

[Maljin Jolt]

Join in, and have a look inside our cockpit and help us fly the plane.'

I would not fly a constantly crashing plane anymore.

First Headline

[Bobdoer]

The most important operating system is not Windows.
Finally Microsoft figured it out.

As if I don't have enough to read up on

[The_Rippa]

I spend enough of the day on slashdot and fark.

I don't have time to listen to Codekeeper Willie talk about typesetting and anthropology.

Uh-oh..

[Anonymous Coward]

Join in, and have a look inside our cockpit and help us fly the plane

Cue 'If Microsoft ran an airline' jokes in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

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Hey Peter!

[Mr Z]

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!"

--Joe

Improve communication?

[Bitseeker]

a blog/discussion forum aimed at improving communication with outside developers

What they're really saying: "Hey guys, we need to innovate. Come on in and help us innovate something. If you tell us what to do, then you'll better like what we license and charge you for."

Scorchio!

[Anonymous Coward]

Fallejeha fallejehe fallejehe, Chris Waddle

Boutros boutros ghali

(Or do you mean a different Channel 9?)

Boutrous boutrous gali

[Timbo]

Daviid: Quando es il dejeuner que la nyktos?
La Rutha: O no. Aga non es functivo, ma microsoftos destructivos la dejeuner.
Daviid: De nada. Mater que pater beefsteak cuisinarti tel para.
Lizabet: El parenticos favoritos!
Alberto: Scorchio!

Help them fly the plane?

[nysus]

Who does Microsoft thing they are appealing to? A bunch of 10 year olds? I'd be a little concerned about the conversation going on inside the cockpit. "Ever seen a grown man naked?"

EULA requires neural implant DRM dongle

[StefanJ]

I would try to come up with a name for it that is an acronym for "Borg," but I'm feeling really tired this afternoon.

Watch out!

[lawpoop]

"...have a look inside our cockpit and help us fly the plane."

AAAAHHHHHHH! Watch out for that giant freaking penguin that's about to eat the plane!!!!

Aw, hell. It's too late anyway.

Re:The top video

[Anonymous Coward]

it's hosted on a distributed network of zombie windows machines

Re:Outer space strikes back

[inertia187]

On the site: Just to warn you, this site will be on /. very shortly. Prepare for the flames that are sure to follow. Too bad the place will likely suck for a couple days, as I think this site might be a good idea.

How cute, they think it will only suck for a couple days.

Re:Outer space strikes back

[AbbyNormal]

"Microsoft needs women. I repeat, Microsoft needs women!".

Top 5 things you don't want to hear on channel 9

[craXORjack]

Named for the audio channel that many airlines use to let passengers listen in on crew conversations during flight, Channel 9

I don't know if I would want to listen in on the crew.

5. Hey dude, got anything to eat? I've really got the muchies right now.
4. Do you smell that? <sniff> <sniff> It's like a burning smell...
3. Dallas Tower, we have a flameout on starboard engine 2.
2. Jesus H. Cripes, Climb! Climb!
And the number one thing you don't want to hear on channel 9:
1. Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name...

Wow. Windows developers have got no soul...

[Queuetue]

I'm reading these people's posts, and ... I know that slashdotters can be pretty dumb, and many of us are the type to get wedgies in high school, but we don't project a face that's that lame, do we? Geeks without the rebel in them are just ... dorks.

Even our windows supporters are way more hardcore than those dweebs.

Re:I hate this ...

[Openstandards.net]

'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.'

PULL THE NOSE UP! PULL THE NOSE UP! WE'RE GONNA CRASH!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Segment fault at <a very personal memory address>

Huh?

[M.C. Hampster]

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.

Channneel Naaaain!

[Turmio]

-Bono Estente
-Bono Estente
-Hetthethethetettethehehtehtehtehte Microsoft owns you.
-Sminkkipinkkibangbang Bill Gates.

(Hey, it's British humour!)

Re:Technical evangelist ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't a longhorn evangelist be a lady who enjoys large equipment?

Re:I hate this ...

[0x0d0a]

That's what I thought at first, too -- an orchestrated PR effort -- but honestly, that site is too badly done. There's no way this is an official MS project.

Re:Not surprising...

[PalmerEldritch42]

I love when you try to start a movie (using FireWhatever of course), it asks if you want to install and run the controls. If has the most deliciously ironic sentence:

Caution: Microsoft Corporation asserts that this content is safe. You should only install/view this content if you trust Microsoft Corporation to make that assertion

OK- who among you really answered Yes to that? I mean, if Microsoft said it's safe then it must be, right?

User IDs

[The Monster]

I give you 7 of 9 [msdn.com]

I don't know. 939 [msdn.com] might be even funnier

Re:Reminds me of a cartoon (A Far Side one?)...

[patmc]

found it: Famous Last Words [dsklyar.com]

Re:Uh-oh..

[Anonymous Coward]

Cue 'If Microsoft ran an airline' jokes in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

Glad to oblige...

UNIX Airways
Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when the come to the
airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece
by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to
be building.

Air DOS
Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on
and let the plane coast untill it hits the ground again. They the push
again, jump on again, and so on...

Mac Airlines
All the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents
look and act exactly the same. Every time you ask questions about details,
you are gently but firmly told that you don't need to know, don't want to
know, and everything will be done for you without your ever haveing to
know, so just shut up.

Windows Air
The terminal is pretty and colorful, with friendly stewards, easy
baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes
in the air, the plane explodes with no waring whatsoever.

WindowsNT Air Just like Windows Air, but costs
more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within
a 40-mile radius when it explodes.

Linux Air
Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start
their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the
runways themselve. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing
the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself. When
you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy
of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very
comfortable, the plan leaves and arrives on time without a single problem,
the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other
airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is "You had to do what
with the seat?"

Re:Outer space strikes back

[hdparm]

That's probably correct. I reckon we'll need couple of days to logon in significant numbers, to make it cool site.

woot!

[bprime]

Finally, I've got a low user ID at a respected Tech site! wait...

Its a trick

[Anonymous Coward]

::click a dee click click::

"I find microsoft products to be less robust and not as flexable as unix based systems. Even apple has moved to such a platform. Why can't microsoft provide analogues to these tools and systems?" (post) ::Jack booted thugs storm a small apartment and a man is drug kicking and screaming into the night.::

Please tell me the airline...

[bergeron76]

So I can pick another. For some strange reason I just don't want my flight from Atlanta to Phoenix "blue-screening".

Uhm, ok so my reasoning isn't so strange.

Scary

[sbrown123]

'Five of us in Redmond are crazy enough to think ...Join in, and have a look inside our cockpit and help us fly the plane.'"


The Fav Five want me to join them in their cock pit? No, I wont do it!!!