http://chris.pirillo.com/on-microsoft-winhec/ News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://chris.pirillo.com/on-microsoft-winhec/#comment-17301 Anonymous Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:25:11 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/04/27/on-microsoft-winhec/#comment-17301 They showed a preview of Longhorn, thats it! WinHEC is not about average user engagement, its a hardcore technical conference, not for grandmothers. If Chris wanted to judge Longhorn he should have at least wait until beta 1. They showed a preview of Longhorn, thats it! WinHEC is not about average user engagement, its a hardcore technical conference, not for grandmothers. If Chris wanted to judge Longhorn he should have at least wait until beta 1.

]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/on-microsoft-winhec/#comment-17300 Anonymous Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:38:31 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/04/27/on-microsoft-winhec/#comment-17300 Precisely Chris, That was my take on your post. Which I may or may not have gotten across in my post. They keep showing Longhorn to developers and they aren't showing anything really for the users. Before I would show the developers XAML, I'd build a kick ass application in XAML and show it to the users. Maybe an Amazon.com based application that uses the desktop search to look for eBooks or music you currently own and provides recommendations. Say a program that notices that I have 40 or so songs by Dick Dale and shows me a new album that's been released on Amazon. If you get the users interested, trust me the developers will want to know how to build whatever the users are interested in. CES would have been a good time. Again, not a big 'power users' conference, but at least it's consumer oriented instead of developer oriented. I just took the opprtunity to rant a little on my own about my perception that there isn't much for the users in Longhorn. Precisely Chris, That was my take on your post. Which I may or may not have gotten across in my post. They keep showing Longhorn to developers and they aren't showing anything really for the users. Before I would show the developers XAML, I'd build a kick ass application in XAML and show it to the users. Maybe an Amazon.com based application that uses the desktop search to look for eBooks or music you currently own and provides recommendations. Say a program that notices that I have 40 or so songs by Dick Dale and shows me a new album that's been released on Amazon. If you get the users interested, trust me the developers will want to know how to build whatever the users are interested in. CES would have been a good time. Again, not a big 'power users' conference, but at least it's consumer oriented instead of developer oriented.
I just took the opprtunity to rant a little on my own about my perception that there isn't much for the users in Longhorn.

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