Comments on: Microsoft’s Channel9 censors list of Windows suggestions from enthusiasts. How did we come to this?

By: TheBootCD

TheBootCD — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:37:54 +0000

You want my honest advice? Go back and read your own articles from when you first became “popular.” Those people liked for a reason. It’s the same reason people are starting to hate your new articles. Give it a break. TheBootCD

By: ioio

ioio — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:58:36 +0000

i would like a windows that understands and has compatibilities wih many languges

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:47:12 +0000

Is there a website in which we can vote on the most valuable improvements we can think up for Windows XP or Windows Vista? I have a thousand ideas but it would be nice to see if we’re all in agreement on some of them – and then it would be interesting to see whether Microsoft fails to implement any of them, again.

For instance, FolderSize was the most valuable add-on to Windows XP, and years after I started using it, I was sure that the next version of Windows would include an option to view folder sizes in the Details view. Instead Vista completely disabled the shell extension! And the makers haven’t been able to recreate it for Vista. Now the choices in the details view are so extremely bad in Windows Vista, it’s 10x worse than it was in Windows XP, which was already pretty bad.

Why do the morons in Windows Development not think of the obvious improvements that we think of? Why can’t they come up with a way to hear our suggestions and maintain copyright ability? What is wrong with this company?

By: Edson Martins

Edson Martins — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:01:15 +0000

Ask Microsoft Team to Inser a Pause Button on the Aniated Copy/Transfer (Class) Window…
bye

By: C9Park comic: Priority Report - istartedsomething

C9Park comic: Priority Report - istartedsomething — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:41:11 +0000

[...] better way to make fun of the silliness that was a list of Utopian user-generated suggestions for future versions of Windows somehow evolved into Microsoft’s secret recipe for success, or [...]

By: Matt S.

Matt S. — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:08:54 +0000

Oh come on people let Long say whatever the hell he wants. If you dont like what he says or what he talks about then.

By: Computer Guru

Computer Guru — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:14:49 +0000

Hence my comment about accusations, FUD, and hate-campaigns making the blogosphere go ’round

Zack: What do the newsgroups have to do with anything? Once someone (in this case, Long) posts in public, replies should, too, be made in public. Makes sense to me!

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:14:31 +0000

By popular, I mean well received by the public, which is what your original post implies.

By: Computer Guru

Computer Guru — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:54:16 +0000

I didn’t mean which “attention-grabbing titles, images, and topics” post; but rather the posts that got you where you are now. So not the most popular recent posts but those many posts before it which – steadily but surely – built up your readerbase with people who genuinely wanted to read from your posts and benefit from some of the knowledge in them.

Popular != Good

If I posted an article mocking Linus Trovalds behaviour on some issues, you can bet it’d be “popular” in the sense that I’d get tons of links and plenty of comments. But that doesn’t make it a good post.

You of all people should know that controversy, misinformation, and accusations are what make Web 2.0 and the blogosphere go around. Don’t fall in love with your own legacy, it never does any good to do so.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:25:31 +0000

@Computer Guru: One of the most popular recent posts I have written (or illustrated), "The Microtrix" is ironically the post which only mocks Microsoft and Sinofsky.