Thanks for the kind words bazza - payment's coming ;) heh. We have around 70,000+ employees here at Microsoft world wide, and so i'm bound to get on a few of their nerves :)
I think I know whom the folks in question were and yeah we don't get a long (welcome to the office politics). Basically if you think I'm punchy towards Adobe via the public forum(s) you should see what i'm like internally... (they've all learnt fast I have a unique way and let him be). I want Silverlight, WPF etc all to be better, and we aren't done by any stretch. In the process, a few toes / ego's get stepped on and they can cry about it at dinner tables @ competitor events in front of customers (which is poor form) or they can build a bridge and get over it :) either way the folks with whom I do interact / care about are the *actual* decision makers of the products. Anywho, suprised I'm the topic of a lunch conversation half away around the world? What was Sean Corfields signature again? "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive" - Margaret Atwood On 10/5/07, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh, and a little OT side-note, I was sitting with a bunch of Microsoft > > guys during lunch one day and the topic of Scott Barnes came up. > > Didn't seem to like him very much. > > at least he's made an impression on them - which is true all the way > up to Scott Guthrie. Harry M. Miller would be the first person to > agree that the only bad press coverage is none at all... > > actually this is a benefit to Microsoft - if you'll allow me to go > thru the thinking... I know Barnes, worked with the guy - he haunts me > around every corner, being in the same city 'n' all > > If Barnes is on-form, he'll be stiring the bejesus out of people, just > to get people thinking - getting "mossy". Microsoft has so many holes > that a good bit of shaking could wake them up to smell the roses. > > "Like"? sounds like an old-boy's network disapproving of someone from > outside because they're not like them. Someone hired Barnes knowing > full well what he's like. It's not hard to find his incredibly acidic > old blog posts, especially since I was sitting right next to him - > going thru the same experiences - watching him document them. And he's > *still* there in a MS chair... > > Nah, Barnes (as a concept) is a cunning plan, Baldric. At the very > least it's entertainment... > > > > -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
