Talk the talk

So Steve Ballmer was here and talked the talk, and did indeed walk the walk. He was every bit as energetic as I had hope he would be. Although he didn’t dance he did shout most of the time. The microphone they had put on him was by no means necessary.
The plan was that he was suppose to talk about globalization and what than mean for the IT business, but instead he talked about what he saw coming in the next 10-12 years. He had some very interesting points about the inevitable convergence of all computers and media, and all of his points were surprisingly non-Microsoft centred.

Had the event ended there, I would have been buying Microsoft products for the rest of my life. But, nooooo… they had to put some of the Technology Evangelists on talking all the “new” fancy features of Windows Vista.

If that was their religion, you can count me as the first atheist. WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE?!? You come to a IT university, will a room full of hundreds of highly educated IT students, and you show us WHAT? How to tag my music in the new Windows Media Player and how to tag my images in the new desktop explorer! How to tag my stuff? Oh, yeah, and that fancy 3D tab program changer… looks very nice, but that’s just eye candy. What is WRONG with you? If that is all you have to show for after 6 (?) years of development I have lost all confidence in your company.

I know that Vista is not going to include all the fancy stuff Microsoft had planed in the first place, and that these features will be released later when they’re done, but that is still no excuse for taking 30 minutes to show some of the most irrelevant and stupid features of Vista.
If you have someone like Steve fucking Ballmer talking the talk then put someone after him to walk the walk and show me some real juicy stuff from your upcoming OS. Come on people… Know your audience and stop wasting my time.