Does Microsoft visit Neowin?

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Grand Master

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This might sound a bit silly and perhaps this has been asked before, but does MS (lead developers, Quality Control People, even Bill himself) frequent Neowin?

Is there any concrete evidence for this?

I've always wondered. It would be nice if they did, and if they perhaps considered some of our ideas.

Who knows? Maybe Bill is reading this right now over a coffee and smiling? I'd like that.

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I doubt Bill lol, But of course a few Microsofties will check here, to see if neowin is doing good or bad stuff. People like Jed, the Community guy will be because Neowin is on of the large community sites. Of course there will be evidence, NWs logs will have tidexxx.microsoft.com :)

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I doubt Bill lol, But of course a few Microsofties will check here, to see if neowin is doing good or bad stuff. People like Jed, the Community guy will be because Neowin is on of the large community sites. Of course there will be evidence, NWs logs will have tidexxx.microsoft.com:))

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Hmmm . . . it's conceivable that Bill might, lol. After all, it takes almost no time or effort punch in this site's address or click on it as a favourite/bookmark. I mean, I'm sure he surfs the web now and then . . .

But that's good to hear, Mx!

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Daninku

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Hmmm . . . it's conceivable that Bill might, lol. After all, it takes almost no time or effort punch in this site's address or click on it as a favourite/bookmark. I mean, I'm sure he surfs the web now and then . . .

But that's good to hear, Mx!

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Sure, imagine you "own" such a company and don't read news on the internet, about your own company.

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Fred Derf Veteran

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This might sound a bit silly and perhaps this has been asked before, but does MS (lead developers, Quality Control People, even Bill himself) frequent Neowin?

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Who do you think posts "Firefox Sucks!" in various threads?

Yea, it's Big Bill himself...

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Makeshift Hammer

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Who do you think posts "Firefox Sucks!" in various threads?

Yea, it's Big Bill himself...

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:o :laugh:

I'd imagine they would come here now and again, maybe even one of the regulars is a MS employee? (excluding the "Firefox Sucks!" guy :D )

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greg098

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Of course they do. A while back, I was chatting with someone who was apart of Windows XP SP2 because I had a firewall problem. I done a thread...and she replied to it and helped me fix the problem...and come on, Neowin is one of the biggest computer related sites on the net. Microsoft will always be coming here...

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the_snitch

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what context did he say it in? sounds suss and extremely funny.

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Get a copy of "Pirates of Silicon Valley". Its a classic geek movie, and contains quite alot of history including quotes like that one, which are reported to have actually happened.

BTW hes talking about the Xerox's GUI which inspired the Macintosh, and in turn, Microsoft.

edit: Lucky you. The VHS version is being remastered into a DVD, set to be released on August 29th, 05 :D

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Jexel

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Get a copy of "Pirates of Silicon Valley". Its a classic geek movie, and contains quite alot of history including quotes like that one, which are reported to have actually happened.

BTW hes talking about the Xerox's GUI which inspired the Macintosh, and in turn, Microsoft.

edit: Lucky you. The VHS version is being remastered into a  DVD, set to be released on August 29th, 05  :D

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that's awesome, funny how things went between ms and mac. Mac got ms to help build software for mac and now they're rivals.

What websites would Bill Gates look up? I doubt he looks up the news on the net, probably read the paper on his way to work or something.

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Yes, people from Microsoft do read threads on Neowin. I posted about getting a BSOD once upon installing DX 9. I was PMed by someone working for Microsoft who asked if I could redo the install to try and reproduce the problem to obtain an error log for analysis.

I wasn't able to get a BSOD on the second run, but its nice to know that MS people are around and care about how well their software works.

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Jexel

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Bill is smarter than you can ever imagine. Surely he surfs at Neowin regullary.

He's watching the tendence over the internet..

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if he's so smart why does he need to visit regularly?

I reckon, we doesn't have the time to even bother with sites like these. He too has a family life remember? Not to mention a charity group as well.

But then again who really knows? He might even be playing some basic msdos games during his coffebreaks. :laugh:

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