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April 13, 2007
MS on Apollo
MS on Apollo: There's been a lot of talk all over the web the past few months, about taking existing web work out to any desktop with Apollo. But one place has remained oddly silent... check out the Microsoft staff blogs, at the above link. Not counting posts from Scott Barnes, or posts about astronauts, the last post mentioning Apollo was by Shane Morris in December. Since then, nothing, zipped tight. It's a stark difference from how everyone else is talking about Microsoft and Apollo -- even places like Channel 9 are discussing how Apollo changes the desktop equation. But on Microsoft staff blogs there's been nothing, even though they're all obviously interested by applications and the web. Odd.
Comments summary: Not much meat below... mostly sockpuppet checks. German Bauer pointed out that we still all have a lot to learn about the Apollo approach, and I'd agree with that. "dimitar71" (?) suggests Microsoft is readying announcements of their own, and (presumably) has locked down bloggers until then. He also suggests that their only possible contribution in commentary would be "trash-talk", which I'd hope would not be the case. "notaprguy" (who has blog and footprint but no identity) wonders if Microsoft has no interest in the area of applications and the web... I think he's legit, but I'm not sure I buy that idea. (In the early days of this blog I had boilerplate up that I'd delete anonymous or pseudonymous messages at my whim... the number of extra words below shows the result of not doing so.) Allen (blog, no visible identity, uncertain footprint) shares my wonder at the near-complete absence of mention of these technology changes in the Microsoft staff blogs, and speculates how such an odd thing might occur.
Update: It gets a little juicy after a half-dozen screenfuls in... less illuminating, more amusing, if you've read online commentary for awhile.
Posted by JohnDowdell at April 13, 2007 11:49 AM
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