Well, well….we now have an official company blog – not before time. There are literally thousands of Microsoft bloggers doing a fine job making this company more transparent than I think any of our competition and now we can add an company wide blog to that list.
Frank Shaw who heads up our corporate communications gives the background to the blog and the redesign of Microsoft Presspass to the new Microsoft News Center (more on that in a future post).
I’m looking forward to seeing what – and who – posts on this blog. I also couldn’t help chuckle at Frank’s use of the word nexus in his post :)
oh and I need to find out who designed their blog as it looks much cleaner and elegant than mine. very jealous. (Cameron??)
Perhaps one of their first posts should be an explanation of why Microsoft just gave one of the worst keynotes in their history- it seemed to be more about looking back on past releases rather than what we can look forward to, they didn't even have the 10-15 year vision demo towards the end!
Microsoft is beginning to lose a lot of its luster in my eyes, they have the capability tobe the 800 pound gorilla in the room but never seem to persue it. Whilst companies like Google and Apple are making huge announcements this month MS had nothing, not even a funny joke, it was terrible.
I'd have loved to see something mindblowing but at the very least an indiciation that they take the worldwide market seriously would be nice, when they stated that the Zune Video store had thousands of pieces of entertainment I imagined that they may say something along the lines of "And now we're partnering with these comapnies in these regions..." perhaps to expand the UKs terrible showing, but nothing!
Microsoft has never had a more disappointing show. If 2010 doesn't show them getting serious about consumers I'm giving up with them all together, it's masochistic being a Microsoft fan in Britain.
... and in Silicon Valley.
Alas, if you're in MS-related technologies and, say, looking for a job, you're out of luck here...
I have a question for the team. Can a system running Windows 7 have the hard disk compressed like you can with Windows XP? I did try this once on my Vista Desktop PC and after the drive was compressed it failed to boot up again and rolling back the system did not work for me. In the end I re-installed my Vista and left the drive un-compressed.
I would like it if you could e-mail me with information about the above mentioned issue (stevemcquarrie@hotmail.co.uk) so I know whether a Windows 7 Hard Disk can be compressed or not.
Thank you