I’ve Fallen in love with a presentation I’ve not seen
NOTE TO MICROSOFT:
Please release a video of Hillel Cooperman’s PDC presentation entitled 'The New Windows “Longhorn” User Experience: Get Users to Fall in Love with Your Software'
Earlier this week in Paul Thurott's blog
Hillel Cooperman, Product Unit Manager of the Windows User Experience Team at Microsoft gave a rousing and, dare we say it, inspiring presentation...Hillel, who gave the Gates keynote Longhorn demo, was one of the best speakers and presenters we've ever seen, and we're officially begging everyone else at the software giant--including Gates himself--to study his style and enthusiasm. Hillel quickly whipped the crowd into a frenzy with a relaxed, hilarious, and dead-on explanation of what was wrong with today's software--including that by Microsoft--and what the software company was doing to fix it...
Then from Chris Hollander
This was, far and away, the most effective session that I've attended. Incredibly well designed, produced and delivered; Hillel layed out the new, user centric, experience centric, emotion centric approach that WE (thats big WE; not we you and, I, or We Microsoft, but WE, ALL of us) can start taking towards computing. People were truly captivated; the audience was laughing, nodding, gasping, clapping, whooooping, and staring slackjawed pretty much in unison...
All I can say is WOW! This must have been one hell of a presentation and I only hope someone in Redmond happens to read some of these resounding reviews and decides that releasing a DVD of this one would be a great idea (HINT HINT)