Microsoft Back to the Future Spoof
posted in Microsoft, Technology |Dare posted links to a Back to the Future Spoof that was used in Bob Muglia’s TechEd keynote. Great stuff. I’m touched that Bob managed to include “web store” in the great list of failed integrated storage attempts. Ahhh, good times.
I also love the “get me all the pictures of me with the CEO at the company picnic for the past 5 years”- a good semi-inside joke. I knew WinFS was in trouble when this was the most common example of why you really needed to be able to do joins on semi-structured data like documents, photos and contacts. It was a classic case of “so we have this great technology that does this thing X. Hmmm, why would anyone actually care about doing X. Lets construct a scenario that needs it!”
To be clear, its not that WinFS couldn’t do lots of more basic things that people cared about. However, other, less complex technologies could also do those other things so the team had to keep constructing odd scenarios that those alternative technologies couldn’t accomplish.