It’s a funny or die parody of both Microsoft’s and Apple’s ads, so it’s obviously adults talking though two cute little girls. Hilarious:
I’m sensible. I would never spend thousands of dollars to just fit in with the cool kids! I’m a PC, I get the job done!
I am a Mac and, obviously, I’m better than the PC.
It was about three weeks ago that I was at the Eiffel Tower with the rest of the WikiChildProtect team, we were a bit disappointed because after all our hard work, we had “only” achieved third place in the French finals of Imagine Cup’s software design category.
Not everything was lost though. I didn’t write about it because I left for Asia the day after and have been quite busy these three weeks, but we submitted our project for H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, First Lady of Egypt, Special Award.
Today we got the results: we are among the five finalists that are going to Egypt!
So I’ll be in Egypt from July 3 to 7 :)
Unfortunately, this also means that I will have to abandon my mother for a few days and that I will miss the wedding of two of my closest friends… But I know that they all know what this means to me and they wish me plenty of luck.
I’ll try to keep you posted as often as possible about how this goes, but first I have to get back home to France so that we can prepare with the team and bring back a gold medal ;)
En février, lors de Microsoft TechDays à Paris, je n’ai pas assisté à une seule conférence (ce n’est pas grave, il y a toujours les webcasts) mais j’ai quand même pu arpenter le salon pendant trois jours pour rencontrer du monde entre autres pour la WebTV de SUPINFO.
J’ai fait, avec d’autres, plein d’interviews pour aborder à peu près tous les sujets : les communications unifiées, les femmes dans l’IT, les communautés, etc. L’épisode TechDays 2009 avait été mis en ligne il y a un moment, mais ma préférée reste quand même celle que j’ai fait d’Eric Mittelette (a.k.a. ericmitt), responsable du groupe pour les les relations techniques avec les développeurs chez Microsoft France. C’est normal, puisqu’on parle développement. C’est pour ça que j’ai récupéré les rushes et je l’ai reprise en entier pour la partager ici.
Je déteste ma voix sur la vidéo, mais j’adore la discussion avec Eric, que je remercie une fois de plus pour les minutes qu’il m’a accordées, même si je sais qu’il était extrêmement occupé pendant la conférence. Je vous laisse regarder :
Enfin, si le “développement vert” ou la “Green Dev Attitude” vous intéresse, voici la conférence Développement d’applications vertes dont parle Eric.
Et comme je sais que la plupart ne voudront pas aller chercher trop loin, voici aussi l’épisode complet de la Web TV:
Pierre sent me a DM to let me know that I appear for a second or so in this Microsoft video:
I’m guessing that many of you won’t watch it until the end, so I’m just going to copy the part that caught my attention the most:
I bet you didn’t know this
42% of global IT employment…
relies on Microsoft technologies.
Wow!
Finally, as a side note to myself: do not accept interviews late at night, especially if you hadn’t slept much the nights before ;)
The final version of Internet Explorer 8 should be coming out today around noon Eastern time (1600 GMT) after several public—or more or less public—betas and RCs.
I’ll let you visit their website to get an idea of what’s new (quick: better support for standards, lighter, faster, Web Slices, Accelerators, …).
IE8 will be available for:
I will be changing those into links to the downloads once I’m sure of what they’ll be.
I’m a “Chrome person” these days, but I think I might give IE8 a chance for a few days. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Update: Links updated and localized!
As funny and cute as this little girl talking about Visual Studio 2008 might be, I’d be really, really scared if my kids turned out like this :P (that is, assuming anyone would actually dare have kids with me in the first place).
Oh, and did she actually test the WPF designer and XAML Intellisense? All the rest, I pretty much agree, but I’m really looking forward to better WPF and XAML support in VS 2010 ;)
I was really looking forward to it because I wasn’t fan of the “blades” at all, so I obviously logged on to Xbox LIVE last Wednesday to download the New Xbox Experience (NXE).
One of the new features of the NXE is the creation of avatars, which I was kind of forced to test even though I really, really needed to sleep. Avatars are not something new; we already had Miis on the Wii for example.
On the Wii they can be used as characters for certain games, but they’re still just a few elementary shapes with a face that more or less might look like you. On the Xbox, even though I haven’t tested any games that use the avatar as a character, the 3D model itself is of excellent quality! I don’t claim to have created a clone of myself, but I think that it’s recognizable enough.
Even better, Micrsoft is all about connecting devices, software, services, your car, … so it’s just natural that your avatars can also come out of the Xbox:
Just replace (gamertag) by your own—in my case it’s xboxMadd0 because someone had already taken madd0 :(
Download the NXE if you haven’t already and have fun sharing your avatars ;)
I had already talked about it not so long ago, tomorrow (or actually today on my watch, but let’s talk PST) November 19th, we’ll be getting the new Xbox Dashboard.
Creating avatars, streaming from Netflix, buying stuff on a computer and having the Xbox download it automatically, and accessing Community Games are just a few of the new features included.
The update is as simple as it gets, but if you’d like a walkthrough, here’s Major Nelson:
We’ve been waiting for it impatiently—or at least I have. It was initially rumored for October, but Microsoft officially announced yesterday at TGS 2008 that the new Xbox 360 Dashboard will be rolling out on November 19.
It will be available in 26 countries and localized in 19 languages. As you can see from the screenshot above (and more in this Joystiq gallery), not only are we getting a completely different user interface, but the experience will change too as this new version focuses strongly on bringing you and your friends closer to the Xbox by introducing avatars and allowing more interaction among friends.
Come back in one month and 10 days (or subscribe) to find out what I think of the new Dashboard.
Plusieurs mois après la sortie de la bêta anglaise d'Internet Explorer 8 nous avons enfin accès à une version française.
Dans cette nouvelle version l’accent est mis sur :
Pour les développeurs, le respect des standards devrait être une très bonne nouvelle, sauf quand on a dû contourner les limitations des versions précédentes par des hacks, ce qui risque d'empêcher l'affichage correct dans laversion 8. La bêta est donc l'occasion de tester ses pages avant que le navigateur ne soit pas accessible au grand public. Elle vous permettra aussi de tester des fonctionnalités comme les Web Slices et autres nouvautés d'Internet Explorer 8.
La nouvelle version est diponsible gratuitement sur : http://www.microsoft.com/france/ie8
Vous trouverez de nombreux add-ons (Accélérateurs, Web Slices, Moteurs de recherche, barres d’outils et extensions) sur http://ieaddons.com/en/
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