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Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

The Swedes haven't quite figured out that my blog entries do not constitute the official position of Microsoft Corporation. I like how they don't even mention my name anywhere. They just say "Microsoft doesn't this" and "Microsoft doesn't that". If you go back to the article they used as a source, you'll see that I provided a variety of reasons for not going into the Start menu point system, but this author decided to claim that reason 1 was not only the only reason but in fact the official reason.

Perhaps I should have used a CGI script which randomized the order of the items each time you refreshed.

Published Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:00 AM by oldnewthing
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# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:37 AM by Nish

>> The Swedes haven't quite figured out <<

Is it not ironic that you are complaining that they generalize your comments to that of Microsoft's official stance and then you generalize one article's contents as the opinions of an entire nation (though I am hoping it was attempted humor).

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:53 AM by anon

There's only two things I hate in this world.  People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Swedes.

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:21 PM by jc

Link to your original article please?  I haven't been reading that long.

[The links are at the bottom of the Swedish article. -Raymond]

# Jag &#228;r inte heller en Microsoft&#45;talesman p&#229; svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:00 PM by Windows Vista News

Did you see this post at blogs.msdn.com

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:01 PM by S

Ta inte det TechWorld skriver seriöst.

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:04 PM by JenK

<i> Perhaps I should have used a CGI script which randomized the order of the items each time you refreshed. </i>

*snerk* *chuckles*

I think you should. Much better than a standar ol list.  

Oh, and thanks for the laugh.  

(PS to Nish: Yes, I assume it's humor. Raymond has a rather dry sense of humor ... perhaps not everyone uses that sort of humor?)

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# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:36 PM by Sohail

You spelled ASP.NET wrong.

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:55 PM by Paxi

IDG/Techworld is the computer magazine equivalent of a tabloid. I'm not the least surprised that they did that.

No one i know takes any of those sites seriously, but they're usually good for a laugh.

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:33 PM by jc

"[The links are at the bottom of the Swedish article. -Raymond]"

Thanks, I found them.  It would have been *really* easy if I could, you know, read Swedish.

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:59 PM by MS

"It would have been *really* easy if I could, you know, read Swedish."

I can read Swedish, but understanding it is a bit tough.  

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 6:53 PM by Cathy

"Mer information hittar du här och här."

When I read that, it seems likely that the sentence means "More information <something> you here and here."  The second "here" is the link to Raymond's blog post.

Maybe it's because I dabble in foreign languages and thus my thought process doesn't go to pieces when a word isn't obviously English, but it does not seem very hard for a reasonably smart person to find the links in the article.  Knowing Swedish is not a requirement.

Look for the different-colored word, the underlined word, or "view source" and find the hrefs.  Barring that, go the end of the article like Raymond said and start trying to sound out words (assuming you can read the alphabet).  You'd be surprised how many foreign words sound an awful lot like English ones.

[The article contains only two links, and both of them point to me, so I didn't think it would've been that hard to find. -Raymond]

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:15 PM by Larry Hamelin

It is impossible to speak so precisely, explicitly and logically that stupid people cannot misinterpret your comments. Stupid people are by definition insensitive to precision, explication, and logic: If they weren't, they wouldn't be stupid.

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:29 AM by Johan Thelin

Perhaps you should start blogging in Swedish - making it more clear to the Swedish press what you mean, and reducing the risk that anyone else would ever understand it (as a previous commenter said - easy to read, hard (impossible?) to understand). And yes, jag talar (och läser) Svenska :-)

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:35 AM by vP

I was wondering about this Swedish thing in your blog. For a person called Raymond Chen, Swedish doesn't really sound like mother's tongue. And I really didn't see how you knew Swedish without having parent(s) speaking it or being migrated into Sweden. (Not that all Swedish-speakers do have names like Anders, Pelle or Linus ;-)).

Well, after googling around, Wikipedia claimed you've learned some alien languages as a hobby. Quite a hobby indeed!

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:34 AM by Boris

"Well, after googling around, Wikipedia claimed you've learned some alien languages as a hobby."

The article doesn't mention any alien languages, only foreign languages.

[vP doesn't appear to be a native speaker of English, so this sort of error is understandable. No need to carp on it. -Raymond]

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# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:22 PM by Swedish Reader

As others have pointed out, the IDG papers in Sweden aren't exactly famous for their correctness. A couple of months ago Computer Sweden had a list where they proclaimed that the C programming language was dead...

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Friday, January 11, 2008 3:26 AM by Name required

> The Swedes haven't quite figured out that

What, the whoile country?

# re: Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska

Saturday, January 12, 2008 6:27 AM by zzz

Going off topic but since you mentioned randomizing items on a menu, there's this moderately succesfull game called EVE Online where they wrote the client and server in Python.

I'm not certain why it's the case, you'd think they have some kind of item ID backing the items in these lists/menus but what happens quite often is that you can click same item many times on the list then one time it's not the same item anymore even though visually the list looks the same.

Take what I said above and apply to it everything about this game and you have to wonder how they have hundred thousand subscribers!

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