{"id":809,"date":"2006-12-08T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T00:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=809"},"modified":"2006-12-08T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T00:30:52","slug":"holy-crap-microsoft-just-got-awesome-4k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/holy-crap-microsoft-just-got-awesome-4k\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Crap Microsoft Just Got Awesome. 4k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell is one of the smartest guys in&nbsp;an industry full of smart people. I thought he enjoyed working for <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/\">a media company<\/a>, but then again, Microsoft is becoming a media company, and so Jon is joining. IBM has IBM TV but Microsoft&nbsp;has Channel 9 and a new star.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Augmenting human capabilities indeed. Screencasting he nailed before anybody else.&nbsp;Oh man. Great great hire. His ridiculously fast techno announcement is <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/gems\/ju_mynewgig.mp3\">here<\/a>. That was the coolest press release ever created Jon. You are awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Blogger\/analyst\/multimedia-producer- all of the above.<\/p>\n<p>Jon mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingupsidedown.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/13\/windows-live-writer\/\">J J Allaire<\/a> 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&nbsp;hagiographic&nbsp;coverage like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/06_49\/b4012001.htm?chan=tc&amp;chan=technology_technology+index+page_today's+top+stories\">this<\/a> (yes we get it, his head is shaved and he rides a mountain bike, we get it-&nbsp;I would love to sponsor a race between him and <a href=\"http:\/\/technoracle.blogspot.com\/\">Duane Nickull<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Jon and JJ and Ray &#8211; are the soul of a new Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technorati Tags:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Zune\" rel=\"tag\">Zune<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/IBM\" rel=\"tag\">IBM<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Allaire\" rel=\"tag\">Allaire<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Allard\" rel=\"tag\">Allard<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Nickull\" rel=\"tag\">Nickull<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Adobe\" rel=\"tag\">Adobe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell is one of the smartest guys in&nbsp;an industry full of smart people. I thought he enjoyed working for a media company, but then again, Microsoft is becoming a media company, and so Jon is joining. IBM has IBM TV but Microsoft&nbsp;has Channel 9 and a new star.&nbsp; Augmenting human capabilities indeed. Screencasting he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-d3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}