Last night Steve and I met with Jim Allchin. It was a surreal meeting and from the original invite I thought it was going to be a party with a lot more people. There were 10 of us including Jim I believe.
Jim is a very knowledgable and genuine guy. We sat down at a table in a seafood restaurant and Jim asked us about on10.net. I’d personally never come across this site and I’ve had a look today and can see why people were a little negative about it. Jim essentially wanted to know what needed to be changed and why.
Eventually we got around to talking about Vista and its problems and I think a lot of people missed the point that Microsoft sells the majority of its Windows licenses to OEMs and business partners not to retailers so some of the questions and comments were irrelevant. One interesting thing was that OEMs actually wanted Microsoft to delay Vista so that they were ready.
According to Jim there’s a big security advancement in Vista by “the way the code is written” but he wouldn’t let on exactly what this was so if you’re a coder and know what it is then drop us a comment!
All in all the evening was a great opportunity to voice opinions on Windows Vista and Office 2007. Jim gave us his email address and signed our Vista Beta 2 CDs, he is definitely committed to Windows and to listening to customer feedback.
Last night Steve and I met with Jim Allchin. It was a surreal meeting and from the original invite I thought it was going to be a party with a lot more people. There were 10 of us including Jim I believe.
Jim is a very knowledgable and genuine guy. We sat down at a table in a seafood restaurant and Jim asked us about on10.net. I’d personally never come across this site and I’ve had a look today and can see why people were a little negative about it. Jim essentially wanted to know what needed to be changed and why.
Eventually we got around to talking about Vista and its problems and I think a lot of people missed the point that Microsoft sells the majority of its Windows licenses to OEMs and business partners not to retailers so some of the questions and comments were irrelevant. One interesting thing was that OEMs actually wanted Microsoft to delay Vista so that they were ready.
According to Jim there’s a big security advancement in Vista by “the way the code is written” but he wouldn’t let on exactly what this was so if you’re a coder and know what it is then drop us a comment!
All in all the evening was a great opportunity to voice opinions on Windows Vista and Office 2007. Jim gave us his email address and signed our Vista Beta 2 CDs, he is definitely committed to Windows and to listening to customer feedback.