Did Blogs save Microsoft?

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MSDN Blog Postings » Did Blogs save Microsoft? — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:31:44 GMT

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re: Did Blogs save Microsoft?

Scott Bellware — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:37:33 GMT

Hey, I thought the jury was still out on the issue of whether Microsoft was saved! :)

re: Did Blogs save Microsoft?

Dave Morehouse — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:15:10 GMT

Interesting you should mention that, Yag--and yet there are many, many people who don't get the point of the kind of openness and (relative) transparency that blogs facilitate. A certain MSFT team who will remain unidentified seemed quite proud at a recent MVP summit to outline the painstaking process they had 'engineered' (my word) around a team blog. Seemed to me that they had succeeded in creating a whole, new, parallel, professional publishing system, replete with perms, workflow, approvals, and God-knows-what else.

Now I admit that a good technology should be used in different ways, whatever suits the need, but just the same, if someone asked me to blog in such a fashion in order to represent the team/corporate voice, I'd run screaming for the hills.

re: Did Blogs save Microsoft?

YAG — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:30:32 GMT

Yeah, Dave - some people get nervous about openness... <g>

re: Did Blogs save Microsoft?

Jason Short — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:12:02 GMT

Here is my problem with the Microsoft Blogging. It seems that all the devs have stopped writing docs, and now put everything on their blogs. How many times have you been at a conference and heard "that information is on my blog"? How about IN THE DOCS? The blog mentality makes for celebrity bloggers rather than good documenters. No one "gets credit" for writing good docs, they do it to get good ratings on their blog.

I personally have found that the MS technical docs in general have gone way down hill in the past 8 years, and I think it is in part due to the blogging of devs.