Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Your chance to meet Bill Gates

You could meet the chairman of Microsoft, but you'll have to profess a passion for Windows first. Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby. The company plans to use them in a marketing blitz tied to the 20th anniversary of Windows' debut. To entice essay submissions, Microsoft is offering a number of prizes, including the chance to meet Gates in Seattle and appear in the ad campaign. Other prizes include an overseas trip with National Geographic Expedition, VIP access to a major movie premiere and a home makeover with an HGTV designer.

News source: Neowin.net

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Microsoft Building a 'Team 99'

We're obviously getting close to Longhorn's releass acording to this article:

Microsoft geek blogger, Robert Scoble has begun taking nominations for a "Longhorn superuser and superdeveloper blogger group". The group will be 20 strong and members at Channel 9 appear to have the final say on who will get picked. Team 99 members must be bloggers, Trusted by the community, visible and can give good feedback to Microsoft about upcoming technologies developed for the next gen Windows operating system, codenamed Lognhorn.

If you feel Neowin has, over a period of nearly 5 years, given you the most up to date information on Microsoft products and Windows Longhorn then feel free to nominate in the thread at channel 9 - linked below.

From: Neowin.net