Comments on: Selling Microsoft http://refraction.co.uk/blog/2008/02/26/selling-microsoft/ The long road to riches and ruin... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:57:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: My Digital Life » Blog Archive » Old vs. New http://refraction.co.uk/blog/2008/02/26/selling-microsoft/#comment-6 My Digital Life » Blog Archive » Old vs. New Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:46:44 +0000 http://refraction.co.uk/blog/2008/02/26/selling-microsoft/#comment-6 [...] link on Twitter (I can’t remember who mentioned it - sorry!) that kinda follows on from my Selling Microsoft post a few weeks [...] [...] link on Twitter (I can’t remember who mentioned it - sorry!) that kinda follows on from my Selling Microsoft post a few weeks [...]

]]> By: steve clayton http://refraction.co.uk/blog/2008/02/26/selling-microsoft/#comment-4 steve clayton Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:11:45 +0000 http://refraction.co.uk/blog/2008/02/26/selling-microsoft/#comment-4 Tom - thanks for the thoughts. I agree with you, we sometimes need to remove some of the corporate polish at events like this and just demo the hell out of cool stuff. The team I worked with last year in the UK did a series of events called Vista After Hours...basically they showed up and did 90 minutes of demos of cool stuff ranging from Home Server, Media Centre, XBOX, Live, Vista and more. *that* changed peoples percpetion about Microsoft and I hope we can do more of it. anyway....great feedback. I'm off to chat with the higher ups to see whay they think :) cheers Steve Tom - thanks for the thoughts. I agree with you, we sometimes need to remove some of the corporate polish at events like this and just demo the hell out of cool stuff.

The team I worked with last year in the UK did a series of events called Vista After Hours…basically they showed up and did 90 minutes of demos of cool stuff ranging from Home Server, Media Centre, XBOX, Live, Vista and more. *that* changed peoples percpetion about Microsoft and I hope we can do more of it.

anyway….great feedback. I’m off to chat with the higher ups to see whay they think :)

cheers

Steve

]]> By: Kip Kniskern http://refraction.co.uk/blog/2008/02/26/selling-microsoft/#comment-3 Kip Kniskern Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:08:52 +0000 http://refraction.co.uk/blog/2008/02/26/selling-microsoft/#comment-3 Thanks for continuing the conversation, Tom. I ran across a blog post by Hugh McLeod yesterday that I wish I had seen before, it illustrates what I was trying to say: http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001607.html While I totally agree about the value of MS blogs, what has been diminished is any attempt to "puncture the membrane". Now, what's inside MS stays there, and what we see is some Waggener Edstrom version of "the face of MS". Blogs about how to better use released, mature products are abundant - blogs about what MS is thinking and where they may be heading are scarce. We may need a good magician before this is all over ;) Thanks for continuing the conversation, Tom. I ran across a blog post by Hugh McLeod yesterday that I wish I had seen before, it illustrates what I was trying to say:

http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001607.html

While I totally agree about the value of MS blogs, what has been diminished is any attempt to “puncture the membrane”. Now, what’s inside MS stays there, and what we see is some Waggener Edstrom version of “the face of MS”. Blogs about how to better use released, mature products are abundant - blogs about what MS is thinking and where they may be heading are scarce.

We may need a good magician before this is all over ;)

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