The Featured Communities Summit: Thanks I Needed That
Recently, I heard an editor from the Office Online team say that she really likes a "refreshing slap in the face" from readers. Me too.
The Windows XP Featured Communities Summit this week at Microsoft provided that sort of refreshment. Microsoft hosted a gathering of people who publish popular Web sites supporting Windows XP users. Managers in charge of many Windows products spent hours talking to this rowdy group. And I got a chance to talk with several of them about the Expert Zone and Microsoft's Web sites.
These people follow Windows information from Microsoft more closely than just about anyone. So the feedback from people like Chris Pirillo, Jake Ludington, Tom Koch, Steve Sinchak, Jason Dunn, Brian Kvalheim, Steven Parker and Marcel Klume, Terry Stratton, and many others, was truly invigorating. Smack!
Not that I think our Web sites are broken. I'm proud of our Web sites and Microsoft community efforts. But we'll soon be even better thanks to these contributions.
-Chris Norred, tech editor,
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