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title: Holy Crap Microsoft Just Got Awesome. 4k
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Jon Udell is one of the smartest guys in an industry full of smart people. I thought he enjoyed working for [a media company](http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/), but then again, Microsoft is becoming a media company, and so Jon is joining. IBM has IBM TV but Microsoft has Channel 9 and a new star.

Augmenting human capabilities indeed. Screencasting he nailed before anybody else. Oh man. Great great hire. His ridiculously fast techno announcement is [here](http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/ju_mynewgig.mp3). That was the coolest press release ever created Jon. You are awesome.

Blogger/analyst/multimedia-producer- all of the above.

Jon mentioned [J J Allaire](http://flyingupsidedown.wordpress.com/2006/08/13/windows-live-writer/) on the podcast, as well he might. J J has done fantastic work on Live Writer, and frankly BusinessWeek should be talking to him, not creating truly horrible hagiographic coverage like [this](http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_49/b4012001.htm?chan=tc&chan=technology_technology+index+page_today's+top+stories) (yes we get it, his head is shaved and he rides a mountain bike, we get it- I would love to sponsor a race between him and [Duane Nickull](http://technoracle.blogspot.com/) at Adobe though). Maybe they got the wrong guy. Allaire creates products people want (if only it would work on my XP desktop, not just my XP laptop). Allard- well, you all know how well Zune has been received.

Jon and JJ and Ray – are the soul of a new Microsoft.

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