What the hell is Don Box up to?

by on October 20, 2006

I see that John Lam just joined Microsoft and is working in building 42. That’s where Don Box works. Before I left Microsoft Don was working on something cool, but he wouldn’t tell me about it. Don has Chris Sells locked in an office with him. I can just see it now. Building 42 is where good bloggers go to escape the world.

In the meantime, Chris Sells linked to this Windows Vista website. Weird. I really don’t like sites like this. I think they are a waste of marketing dollars. But that’s just me. Just go into Don Box’s office with a camcorder and ask him about Windows Vista. He knows what it does.

If you don’t know who John Lam or Don Box or Chris Sells are, well, they used to be among the favorite speakers at Visual Studio Conferences. Smart dudes.

I wonder what’s going on in building 42. Hey, Charles Torre, take a camcorder over there and see what’s going on!

Oh, and Chris Sells, your site looks better in Google Reader than it does in HTML. Can you do something about that?

  • Tim
    Gosh. I hope Microsoft didn't pay actual money for that clearification website. It stinks out loud. Did we slip into a wormhole and go back to 1999 and I didn't notice?

    Almost as lame as www.msdewey.com.
  • eric
    now i understand...
  • Sina
    I really enjoyed it. But it might just be because it's really late. I'll review in the morning.
  • Russ Henry
    Looks like a well-polished sponsored site.

    Humor is good up to the first moment you realize it is a commercial. It is a good commercial for vista up to a point. If the UI is in the link to show the average joe, where he/she can build a site just like this site; then it is not Mr. Obvious. The casual comedy style would be great to teach a class on how to build a site. It is obvious he is on the payroll. MSFT should take the next step and develop it into a training module for cutting edge education of vista. They may even cut new ground for dullllllllllll corporate training and build a cottage industry for comedians to fight for leverage. Robert, remember the visual white boarding brain storming sessions a few posts back? Huh?

    To quote the site " SORRY, silent but deadly brain fart".

    What do you remember, massive process steps or humourous antidotes? KISS principle.

    It does make me want to go back and check out the rest of the site. Therefore, it is worth what has been invested in the site up to a point. That point is where your analysts can check out when the product name repeats tend to force a click out.
    SOSO "same old same old" does not work on the web IVMHO.

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  • james
    It's kinda funny that MS hired the slacker guy from the daily show to advertise Vista (albeit in cartoon representation).

    Reminds me of slacker guy from Apples commercial.
  • mouse
    There is more coolness going on in 42 than you would believe particularly on the 2nd floor
  • Well at least John Lam was at TechEd in Boston this year.. Don Box, Chris Sells and heck even Anders were nowhere to be found.

    Kinda makes 'ya wonder since the architectural stuff in WCF has been done for a while and .NET 3.0 in general is about to be pushed out the door.

    Whatever it is.. I hope it can top the SOA-Enabled piano played from a 360 controller...
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