User Experience matters!

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John — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:24:53 GMT

Good to see upper leadership at Microsoft is still completely PHBified. Why are all you people always enamored of saying really obvious things at such great length? And why do all managers love listening to yourselves talk (or write, in this case), even when not saying anything much at all!

How much actual content is in this? What could a dev actually learn from this post? But if I ever have to play buzzword bingo, I'll definitely invite you to be on my team. Same goes for acronym express...

Please make future blog posts of higher quality, with more actionable, in-depth technical information, instead of "Use AJAX (preferably with ATLAS!) for you LOB UX- its dynamic, wheeeeeee!!!11!eleventy-one!".

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Experience? — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:26:07 GMT

If I want experience I would buy an Apple

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MSFT — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:27:03 GMT

Is nothing but a place for managers and butt kissers these days. They should have a butt kisser KissIt award and Butt Miles card.

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SynergyMan! — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:27:35 GMT

Synergy! Synergy Synergy!

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BuzzBingo — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:31:23 GMT

Rich Travels
User Experience
Smart Client
Key Differentiator
Synergies
Rich Set Of Collaborative Tools (RSOCT)
XML XML XML DHTML AJAX! XML XML!
Web Experience
Richer And More Rewarding
Enable For Our Customers
Superior User Experience (tm)
"Creating An Emotional Connection"
"Creating An Emotional Connection"
"Creating An Emotional Connection"

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Moo — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:32:58 GMT

This is what you get when you let somebody like this twat do the design..

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4291661536788172681

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From the needs more synergy department — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:34:17 GMT

Needs more synergy.. pass the synergy bottle.

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You sir get this award — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:53:52 GMT

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2320/microsoftkissitaward8sw.jpg

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Favored by all envangelists and UX people the world over — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:00:01 GMT

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mannnn — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:01:33 GMT

For all that drivvel your stock awards just rose 10%

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LOL — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:08:37 GMT

Im so amused i shall bake you a cake.

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6Sigma — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:26:45 GMT

I give this article a 6-Sigma award for all your Streaming Synergy needs

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Chi — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:27:55 GMT

Feel the Feung Shui of this article

Interesting Finds

Jason Haley — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:34:48 GMT

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CommentWatcher — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:56:56 GMT

(Directed at commentors above, not the blog itself)
Given the clearly friendly audience watching Soma's blog, it makes perfect sense for him to provide postings that include details, strategy, insight, or anything of deep substance.
Not.

I wouldn't tell you guys s**t. Too bad you all have your aggregators pointed here. You cost a lot of good information that could come from Soma to those of us who would like to hear all he has to say.

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JustCurious — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:27:15 GMT

Hello,

I have a question on WPF/WinFx.net.

I really like WPF based UI & would love to recommend it for some business solutions that we are planning to build in the next 6-9 months. However, these solutions will probably run on XP.

Would you happen to know when the WPF/WinFx.Net will be getting out of the Beta version & if it is a good idea to think about serious WPF based solutions in the next 6-9 months timeframe.

Since the Vista release is delayed, should we consider not trying to jump in on the WPF/WWF type solutions, if their GA will be delayed.

Thanks..

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Somasegar — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:17:14 GMT

Hi,

We have been shipping CTP drops of WinFX including WPF for a long time now. WinFX continues to be on plan to be shipped with Vista.

If you want solution in the next 6-9 months, I would still say that you take a bet on WPF and WinFX to build your solutions.

As you know, Vista is planning for their beta2 this summer and there will be a beta of WinFX/WPF along with that.

- somasegar

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JustCurious — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:28:45 GMT

Hello,

Thanks for your response. I have been playing with the Feb/March CTP for a while & really like what I see.

I guess our concern really is whether WinFX/WPF will get out of Beta cycle & GA'd by Q3 or not. We are really trying to target our existing users (a mix of various Windows O/S) so Vista timelines may not impact us much.

But if WinFX/WPF are not released by Q3 then we may be in hot water. So really, is WinFx/WPF/WWF release cycle inseparably tied with Vista? If not, is there an approximate timeframe when MS foresees them for GA.

Also, if their is a beta customer program where we can work with MS folks for our internal development on WWF/WPF based solutions so that our release is right after yours, please redirect me.

I would really appreciate your response on this.

Thanks!!