My Slides: Microsoft UX: What Just Happened
04. Feb, 2010 
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I’ve been travelling around Australia in the past few weeks talking about Microsoft UX and essentially “What Just Happened”. I’ve uploaded my slides to slideshare.com (though they don’t animate, booo hiss..) but none the less they are there for those who may have attended my presos to look at.
The “What Just Happened” title came from an internal discussion list inside Microsoft, where I would decode movements on Adobe for all of Microsoft to get a better understanding of the PR spin coming from those guys. I’d essentially break it down into less b.s and more to the point information. Given I had a lot of success with this inside Microsoft I thought it would be a great idea to do the same, only not with Adobe but for those in the public regarding Microsoft.
It’s a theme I plan on continueing with in the near future.
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@MossyBlog FYI: The olympics were done on SL2, not 1.1. They were why SL2 had an early go-live and an extra beta
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@MossyBlog but the version that showed the olympics was the completely retooled 2 release. 1.1 never saw product or beta, just alpha
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@MossyBlog 1.1 alpha also came out before 1.0 release, so your timing is a little messed up
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@Pete_Brown what do you think the team used during the time between 1.1 and 2? think McFly..THINK!
heheh
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@Pete_Brown ask yourself the question, why did 1.1 even come out
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@Pete_Brown also what was the major differences between 1.1 and 2.0 in terms of features. I can’t recall seeing any
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@MossyBlog I didn’t know you joined Readify…you know they teach my content, right?
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@MossyBlog 1.1 was first attempt at managed code. Pretty much completely rewritten during/after 1.0 release. Totally diff wpf-compat api
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@MossyBlog SL1.1a May 2007 (MIX), SL1.0 Rel, Sept 07, SL2 announced MIX08 w/tech-ed beta, Olympics Summer 08, SL2 release fall 08
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@Pete_Brown Silverlight 1.0 RTW before 1.1 Alpha. 1.1 was what i called the C# release as that allowed others to build up from there.
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@Pete_Brown your basing all this on public releases, i’m talking more in line with the timelines and why they were in place.
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@Pete_Brown 1.1 was to enable sites like NBC etc to start building from a stable release. 2.0 was already pre-determined by 1.1 alpha
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@MossyBlog it’s a public talk, assumed the version numbers you were giving were for public releases
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@Pete_Brown I know as well.. i was there
heehehe CTP->RTW->ALPHA->APOLOGY EMAILS->2 Beta->1.0->2-RCO->APOLOGY EMAILS etc..
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@ShawnWildermuth yeah I heard from @jakkaj that we have your stuff. Haven’t seen it yet, but looking forward to playing with it all
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@MossyBlog ok. The deck must lose something without the talk. Slides alone (never having seen your talk) tell a diff story.
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@Pete_Brown what story do you think it tells?
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@MossyBlog the slides say folks watched avg of 23 minutes of olympics on SL1.1, everyone noticed, then team went to work on 2.0 after.
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@MossyBlog 2007 was an odd-numbered year.
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@Pete_Brown ahh yeah, i see it can lead to that but in context i branch away and talk about why NBC Olympics was a big thing for MSFT
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@Pete_Brown mainly talking about how out of the NBC Olympics MSFT (its a branch). I then talk during this build up to it all there were
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@Pete_Brown changes, so it was back to work and emails both victory and apology were sent out etc..
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@MossyBlog that makes more sense. The slides on their own read differently. I hate posting my own slides for that reason.
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@Pete_Brown its ok Pete, you’ve now got the Microsoftie in you.. where you find small things to pick at
but in the end, its academic
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@MossyBlog blegh. Blame it on me being nitpicky tonight, not msft-y stuff. I’ve always been a sticker for accurate public info
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yup Scott’s recollection of events is accurate. nice work, great slideware, talk or no talk.
@Pete_Brown not really, 1.1’s agenda was to get ready for the Olympics 2 was the final result AFTER…
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