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And the PDC... is over. Kinda.

So, it's been lights out here for the last week - the PDC hit us hard - from meeting with tons of people, to doing talks and demos, to just trying to find a restaurant, it was a whirlwind of... well, something. Basically, so much happened and there are so many stories to tell I simply don't know where to begin.

I did want to update and say, "Hey, I'm still alive!" I'll try and write something interesting and detailed soon (as is my particular style, with rambling involved). Feel free to ping me with requests. ;)

That said, I heartily recommend watching the vast blogscape, the news articles and the many many comments people have made about Longhorn (as well as Whidbey and Yukon) - it's pretty staggering, and I think over the comings months we'll start to hear a lot more about what works well, what doesn't, and what we need to do to make you all very happy. Phew!

Published Monday, November 03, 2003 10:41 PM by jasmo
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Mal Ross said:

Okey doke, here's a request for info on something that's frustrated me for a while now. Are Office and OS UI widgets going to come into line any time soon? For a *long* time now, Office has been flying in the face of the operating system, rolling its own UI. Regardless of which style is deemed superior, it would be nice if the two looked at home with each other. By having different looks, developers have to choose between them, making it impossible to provide a consistent experience. It's kinda frustrating. What would be your advice on this? And are the teams working together more for Longhorn? Cheers. :)
November 4, 2003 12:16 PM
 

Jason Moore said:

With Longhorn, it's clearly a key goal as seen from the PDC for us to engage with as many ISVs as possible and get as broad coverage as possible - we want to get everyone on the game plan. In terms of Office, just like with anything there's a set of decisions you have to make and influences on those decisions about how you do things (some historical even). I can't comment on decisions they've made as a team, but it's a couple key things that are generally issues for people tend to be about timing and delivery. The Office team has to do things like ship on multiple versions of Windows, which means evaluating any dependencies they would have - if a feature is on Windows XP but not Windows 2000, do you support it? Sometimes you do - sometimes you don't. This is where good software engineering comes into play - make the decisions as well as you can, ship the right set of features and make customers happy. As far as frustrating developers - I take that as clear feedback that we have some ways to go before we're making things as clean and simple as possible for people. I'll be sure to pass it on.
November 6, 2003 11:43 PM
 

cag said:

Did you go to PS 115 in Queens N.Y.?
November 13, 2003 1:46 AM
 

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