Show this one to your kids. Think you can work on a race team with just a high school education? Not likely, we learned in this video series (the guys we talked to all had college degrees). Here’s the videos from when we visited the Target Indy Race team. Lots of fun stuff and behind the scenes. We got access every race fan would die for.
Category: Chat
Where are Microsoft’s bloggers?
The Channel 9’ers are taking Microsoft’s bloggers to task for not doing enough about the latest security exploit. But, a deeper conversation about what corporations should do during a product problem or crisis is evolving there.
A conversation with Windows Vista Kernel Team
This is Channel 9’s Christmas Present to geeks everywhere. A candid conversation with the team that’s building Windows Vista’s kernel. I even ask if they wish the registry had never been invented. But, Charles Torre did most of the interviewing. Being in a room with these guys for an hour makes my brain hurt.
They give a lot of details about how they are rearchitecting Windows to make it easier to ship new, higher-quality, versions of the OS.
I don’t remember any conference where these four people get together and just have a simple conversation. In 2006 I’m going to push for even more corporate transparency into why we do the things we do. Since much of the world has bet on our products, shouldn’t the world have better conversations with the folks who build those products?
Think about the impact on the world these four people have. If there are going to be hundreds of millions of people using Windows Vista (and that’s if it’s a market failure), and these four people find a way to increase computer speeds even a few seconds a day (or do something similarly impressive to increase productivity), imagine the economic impact of that.
Happy Holidays from building 18 on Microsoft’s headquarters! Hope you have a good one!
Update, I wish I were back in Belgium with this Nine Guy.
Lots of interesting Channel 9 vids
Charles Torre took his video camera over to the Windows Vista audio team and got an in-depth look at the new audio stack.
The tour we got of F5 Networks is now up.
Scott Swanson talks about the MSN Messenger APIs.
And I just put up Michael Kaplan who is a developer working on localizing Windows Vista.
Bit twiddler alert
One more post before we head off to the train to London. If you are interested in next-generation computer science concepts, you might check out the video that Charles Torre did with the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime team (I played camera boy). This team is smart. I think my IQ went up a point just by being in the same room.
They are trying to make programming for multi-core processors a lot easier.
Are you an RSS addict?
Stefan Constantinescu: “I am a self-proclaimed RSS addict now, working with two guys at Elwoh Software to see if we can build an RSS reader that will stand out from the others.”
It is very gratifying to hear this kind of response to my writing (Stefan talks about how he wants to be a Microsoft employee after seeing Channel 9 and the writings of Microsoft’s more than 2,000 bloggers).
While getting a tour of Microsoft Ireland last night I heard again that my videos are highly watched inside the company as well. Microsoft is such a big place that the videos let employees get an idea of what other groups are doing.
I also want to call out Charles Torre, my partner in crime on Channel 9. He’s been posting videos while I’ve been over here in Europe. Some really great ones including Mary Snapp, VP and Deputy General Counsel (Jennifer Ritzinger is the interviewer there and is the driving force behind our new “women in technology” show) and going deep stuff like a discussion of Windows Vista’s Transactional File System.
And with that, we’re off to Paris…
Douglas Engelbart’s interview online
A couple of weeks ago we had dinner with Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse. That video is now online.