Where the heck is Scoble?

Dave: Jeremiah has credibility here. You have none. Jeremiah is a technologist at Hitachi Data Systems. Who are you? Nothing more than a troll who attacks, doesn’t tell us anything about who you are, or what your biases are, and we can’t meet you at conferences. We can’t call you on the phone. We’ve just gotta listen to your trash. So excuse me. Jeremiah is 1000 times more credible than you are on ANY topic here.

Got it Robert. Now I understand allegiances and how you treat long time commentors, and people who email you.

Until today I found you to be very nice – then you decided to twice take me to task because I won’t give you my last name (which BTW my emails to you do contain).

That’s enough for me. Unsubscribed. Too bad – I would’ve liked to know why you have this blind spot for RSS over Atom – as your latest post clearly says.

Anyways, I wish you the best! And please, someday tell us outsiders what REALLY has been going on at the company you work for this past 12 months. So far I don’t think you’ve been “transparent” enough on this subject….

Peace!

Dave: >Anyways, I wish you the best! And please, someday tell us outsiders what REALLY has been going on at the company you work for this past 12 months.

I’ve done more than 600 interviews, most of which are an hour long. You’re welcome to watch them. They give you far more insight into the company than anything that I could post here.

Personally, I don’t even know which Dave you are. There’s no way for me to see who you are from your postings here and no way for me to match your name up with emails you’ve sent me.

Dave: oh, and it’s pretty clear that you can dish it out but you can’t take it. Coward.

I’m another coward who doesn’t have anything to link to What am I supposed to do? Start a blog so that Scoble will listen to me?

You didn’t take your vacation Scoble?

met: yes. Starting a blog WOULD make you more credible. Not to mention using a real name. And being someone who shows up at geek events once in a while.

I did take a vacation. You didn’t notice that I didn’t post for a few hours this week?

I wandered in here to try and find an honest rationale for the Vista Delay other than corporate incompetence but I still have yet to read one. Why is Microsoft not presenting a straightforward and factual reason for the delays thus far regarding this new OS.

Truthfully I’m content with the Microsoft products I have used for the past couple of decades (literally all of the consumer and office software made by MS) I’ve also used every OS that Microsoft has released without much hassle!

I take ‘Patches’ and ‘Fixes’ in stride (The world is imperfect in all venues) …. I do not however understand (to use an analogy) why from the expectant consumers vantage point it appears that at Microsoft right now the left hand is somewhat broadly disconnected from what the right hand is doing.

A company of Microsofts stature (and accomplishments/expertise) should have a little more management finesse when it plans for the development timeline of a major software product and its release date. The whole scenario smacks of a series of almost ironic Dilbert cartoon strips at the very core of the company.

PS: Bob I’m no tech Geek or expert in anything … despite spending about 10,000 hours using these infernal machines … I’m still just a well worn 57 year old Canadian writer (Not about Technology) who works and plays from a home office … I’m competent in using the technology of the age by way of reading and applying others instructions/knowledge … I can Wow them in my small village and among family and friends by what I can do with the software and hardware on a beige box (or White, Black, Grey & even Multicoloured) but it wouldn’t cut me much slack or attention in a tech-lab … but out here where it counts I can ‘produce’ results with the best of them using more applications than it is safe to give an old codger …

So my ‘Bias’ – as such – is that of a ‘User’ in the ‘Real World’ …. just thought I should add that as you have concerns about who one is and where they are coming from (Oh yes — I have no tech stock [0]in my limited investment portfolio)

Thanks for the very current Blog postings Bob … but in closing I must reiterate that I still would like to read unadorned words sans sarcasm about why incessant delays are now so commonplace at Microsoft?

Barrie: have you ever worked on a project with thousands of people? Ever tried to get something done on time with them? Ever slipped?

The problem is, how do you explain this? I know a book publisher. He often has single authors who miss deadlines. How do you explain that?

It isn’t something that you can really explain to anyone’s satisfaction. If we knew the problem totally we’d fix it. We’re studying the problem. We’re trying to get better. Software delays are nothing new and nothing exclusive to Microsoft.

Thank you for the polite and balanced response Bob …

“If we knew the problem totally we’d fix it. We’re studying the problem.”

That is what I was looking for … Thank You!

I have had the opportunity to work with large numbers of professionals on ‘critical’ projects … we met our deadlines in a manner that would be considered proportionality remarkable … When on rare occasion we could not meet those deadlines we ensured that those who would be impacted adversely were given early notice so as to minimize negative results. We always tried to keep ‘lead-time’ within known team performance parameters … but I will grant you the explanation above is more than suffice to my concern as a simple ‘Day-To-Day’ user of Microsoft products …

I wish you well Bob … and a life away from the R race that is an integral constuent of the IT business.

PS: If your ever lost on a backroad in Northern Saskatchewan follow the road grids home ….

I find it a pity that Vista is delayed (again?). But does this have anything to do with large portions of code having to be rewritten? If the journalists really are journalists they would have checked this 60% figure with other MS developers (and/or managers) and – if they couldn’t confirm the figure – should have never published it. People get sued for this kind of things over here (The Netherlands). If the 60% figure is just a fact of imagination, wouldn’t a rectification be justified? Act like all Americans do (common misconception?)… sue the soab’s…

he just fired his credibility as a tech journalist and has proudly started a hoax and we all fell for it. Wonderful.

Windows Me

“Windows Me: PC Health Features Keep PCs Stable, Secure and Reliable — and Take the Frustration Out of Computing for Home Users”
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/sept00/09-05winme.mspx

Windows 2000

“Our primary goal is to improve security and safety for all our customers — consumers and businesses, regardless of size — through a balance of technology innovation, guidance and industry leadership,” Gates said. “We’re committed to continued innovation that addresses the threats of today and anticipates those that will undoubtedly emerge in the future.”
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-15RSA05KeynotePR.mspx

Windows XP

“Windows XP is the most secure and dependable operating system we have ever produced.”
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/aug02/08-30WinXPSP1PR.mspx

Windows Vista

“In Vista, it should be much more difficult for unauthorized programs (like Viruses and Trojans) to affect the core of the OS and secretly harm your system.”

Whose credibility is fired here?

OMG You will need decades for bug-fixes?

The problem seems to be that they (MS) have to remove every piece of damned managed code they included in Vista.
If so, then I don’t mind if Vista delays even for years

Robert wrote: “well, in that case he just fired his credibility as a tech journalist and has proudly started a hoax and we all fell for it. Wonderful.”

You are responsible for your own brain. Others cannot taint it without your consent.

This looks like NT5 all over again. It seems that at some point the Windows team got too feature happy. It is a huge project, to be sure. Now that they are code complete the struggle now is with deciding which bugs to fix and which bugs to punt. Testing is the major critical path now. So, I’m guessing they’ve put a stake in the ground, (finally) and said, based on the bugs still needing to be fixed and the testing required to ensure those bugs fixes work, they are now out to end of year. What I don’t quite understand is the corporate vs consumer timelines. Scoble, would there be a way to find out what issues are causing the consumer release to be pushed out over the corporate release?

Further evidence, I am not sure how someone from Acer knows what is happening internally but hey -

http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Computing/Software?Article=/Computing/Software/S8Q8K2Q6

My number one rule in blogging or blog commenting is:

Never post when angry.

People still have to convince me that they have been personally harmed by the delay.

I see a lot of second guessing of internal Microsoft processes and personal attacks here. What I don’t see is a firm statement that says, “You know, I’ve been waiting up at night wishing on my lucky star that Vista will come down and save my marriage. Now that it’s late, I’ve got to hire a family attorney.”

Please, someone, tell me the reason for the outrage here. I need some context.

Jim: lots of people hate Microsoft. Nothing new.

Not to be insulting anyone, especially not Robert, but have any of your posers actually looked into the vista code?

I’m sorry if you doid and I missed it, but my eyes are hurting and I’m about to go back to bed. But hoenstly. If you take a good look into it you might notice that there will be a rewrite, but it’s not oing to be of megaginatormic proportions. 60% Qualifys as that word I just mentioned. It’s going to be 10, maybe 15% rewrite, and not a very crucial part to the os anyway.

Robert,

For someone with a penchant for shooting your mouth off first, and checking facts second as you have, or writing links that are somewhat misleading, you may want to check your FIRE THE BASTARDS jihad.

You kind of don’t have real moral high ground for this Robert. Really.

After Vista and Office get delayed, instead of a thoughtful measured response, Scoble goes half-cocked on some journalist that danced the usual idle speculational game. If you turned the tables and yanked every Evangelist Marketer for playing vaporware fuzzy number games, you’d be firing half of Microsoft. That Vista-delay Press Release blaming ‘Industry Deployment’ practices was quite the double-take.

Mean, sensationalist, knee-jerk, shrill and attack dog, ouch. Dave Winer rubbing off on you. The fact that you are a happy-go-lucky fun-guy teddy bear in person is your saving grace, as it sure doesn’t come thru on the blog. Kiss of Death indeed.

And you are a dimwit Marketing guy, this was sorta a pointless no-hit story, until you decided to toss it on the front page with the controversy. Crying bloody murder makes things headlines, you should know that. MP3′s were nothing, domain of the geek, until Napster was sued, getting it headlines and millions and millions of users, making P2P impossible to stop no matter how many 12 year old girls they decide to sue. Quietly dismissing, and it’s onto the new topic, screaming, and demanding someone’s head, well people will think some truth to it. Your loud rants actually produce the opposite impact. This is what people call, irony.