John Coyne's Embedded Blog : Funny

I’m a PC… and now, so is a MAC

jcoyne — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:25:16 GMT

I’m sitting in the Staff/Speaker room here at PDC, and happened to notice Ryan McMinn, PM on the Access team, and his super tricked out Apple PC! Take a look! Even Apple Computers want to be PC’s! Here’s to you Ryan JC...(read more)

PDC Day 2 – Lots of stuff to see!

jcoyne — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:15:20 GMT

Checking in from PDC here in Los Angeles – it’s actually day 3 as I write this, but I wanted to give you all some info from Day 2. Keynote – as usual, Ray Ozzie did a great job of talking vision for Microsoft in the future. He talked about...(read more)

Mike Hall has done it again! (oooo…. ahhh….)

jcoyne — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:22:51 GMT

Mike hall has done it again! He’s demonstrated that GNU runs on Windows CE… single handedly tearing down the walls of the religious war between Windows and GNU/Linux… Glad that’s over! Here’s Mike’s post! R.I.P. Linux, R.I.P HAHA…...(read more)

I’m Still a PC! (and I’m in Times Square!)

jcoyne — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:59:14 GMT

So you’ve all undoubtedly heard of our newest campaign … if not, see my post from a few weeks ago… I was told that I’m famous, but didn’t believe it until I saw this: Yep… that’s yours truly in Times Squre, New York, in all my geekdom. Pretty cool, eh…...(read more)

Tough Choice - PDC or ESC Boston?

jcoyne — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:59:38 GMT

So in case you missed it - Mike Hall has posted some fun about the upcoming PDC 2008 in Los Angeles... along with a video on engadget. Pretty funny, IMHO. He will not be at PDC, but I will, along with Dion Hutchings, the TPM for Windows Embedded Compact,...(read more)

I’m a PC – Are you? (I think so)

jcoyne — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:29:42 GMT

I’ve been receiving emails for weeks “What’s with the Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld Commercials?” and “What do they mean?” Basically they were primers for our newly launched Campaign: Windows – Life without walls. While they didn’t say that, the new one does…...(read more)

Is Master Chief getting a makeover?

jcoyne — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:06:30 GMT

I've been on vacation this last week, recuperating from many road miles over the last couple months. trying to catch my breath and catch up on a few projects around the house. I saw this while checking email and had to share... pretty funny. You may have...(read more)

It's The Avatars!

jcoyne — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:05:53 GMT

While at Tech-Ed in Orlando, I happened to be accosted greeted by the Microsoft Avatars... here's a picture of them playing with me: But then... wait... what happened? OMG! someone killed the Avatars?!? Poor little guys...(read more)

which one is Mike?

jcoyne — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:13:24 GMT

so if you happened to read Mike Hall's Post about preparing for demos, and such. here's a picture after quite a while of preparing for demos in Olivier Bloch's room... Dion Hutchings, one of our Technical Product Managers was preparing for his Demo, Olivier...(read more)

Holy Space Shuttle!

jcoyne — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:44:00 GMT

So recently I visited Orlando, FL to attend the Tech Ed conference. I had the pain pleasure of working / speaking at both the developer and the IT conference. that meant TWO WEEKS in 90+ degree (F) temperatures, with something like 850% humidity! we had...(read more)