Mobile PCs - The Lost Scenarios

re: Mobile PCs - The Lost Scenarios

Dennis Rice — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:35:24 GMT

Lol.

What a way to start my morning. At least you left out that "stall surfing" scenario Warner Crocker keeps blogging about! 100 points for good taste!

Excellent work Vikram.

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You also did a good job explaining the V1, V2, V3 process. Hopefully we are past that with earlier betas, and more direct involvement with users. I still would really like to see more people from Microsoft out in our blogs and forums though, asking hard questions. Big sissies, scared of a little flack! :) People like Eliot Graff, Chris Pratley to name a couple have shown that it can be done! I'm not talking about just having a team blog on MSDN, I mean getting in community forums and asking / answering questions and getting right next to the real user issues and problems.

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re: Mobile PCs - The Lost Scenarios

Danny-o — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:35:48 GMT

Funny as always with the real and the sarcasm blended togeather. Thanks for the note on what you used to build your slide show. I use power point alot but never on my umpc with inking. I've tried not to have to buy the suite of options for the umpc and use them via logmein.com and portal to my power house computers for applications such as those. But seeing the inking option on the 2007 power point, perhaps it's time to buy another suite of programs...

Some thing new, MS put out a new program (well new to me) called inscribe 2007 with sliding text entry. pretty cool. But when the newness factor rubs off, I'll let you know if it's still cool! lol.

Keep the humor comming w/ the info.!

Danny-o

Mobile PC's - Interesting usage ideas

GottaBeMobile.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:20:51 GMT

re: Mobile PCs - The Lost Scenarios

Warner Crocker — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:42:32 GMT

Brilliant!

But I do miss the stall surfing scenario.

re: Mobile PCs - The Lost Scenarios

Mickey Segal — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:37:43 GMT

Some instant user feedback: the slide show didn't show up in my copy of Firefox on Vista, but it worked in IE7. If it would work with some plugin, no indication of that was given; indeed there was no visual indication that any content was missing.

I like the part about V1, V2 and V3, but I'm not sure where we are now on Tablet PCs. The old distinctions have been blurred with big beta programs and with easier ways of giving feedback. I was impressed with how fast Microsoft moved on the suggestions for smaller Tablets, even though the first reaction we got was "we're not a hardware company". It is a good thing that people at Microsoft are also stockholders.

What is it this week about making fun of wearable computers (http://www.gottabemobile.com/CommentView,guid,8bc587d4-a3ec-4165-b527-879afc568342.aspx#commentstart)? It was the use case of doctors with Tablet PCs in their white coat pockets that motivated a lot of the early interest in pocket size Tablet PCs. I still think the Motion LS800 size screen is better than the UMPC size screen, but part of what takes it so long for V3 to happen is that relevant partners, here the computer industry and clothing manufacturers, assume that they can't influence the other and Microsoft and Intel designed for the pockets that already exist.

re: Mobile PCs - The Lost Scenarios

Mickey Segal — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:40:17 GMT

The slide show now appears in Firefox.

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Bali — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:50:04 GMT

This is one of the most interesting blog I ran into in msdn. For mibility scenarios, one of the problem I have now is balance of portability vs. usability.

In other words, I would love a large large screen when I am using it; but I would love a small small screen(or volume) when I am not using it.