Microsoft On The Issues - All Comments

re: Valuable Support for IP from the White House

alaecio — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:06:38 GMT

contato....obrigado

re: Delivering Broadband Accessibility for People with Disabilities

Ali — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:30:25 GMT

About FCC's finding that disabled people do fewer activities online may be true for now, but eventually more older people will start using the web for their interests and would need innovative solutions.

re: Telecentre.Org Launches to Bring Internet Access to the Next Billion

Rich Fuchs — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:26:39 GMT

It was great to be a part of the re-launch on the new telecentre.org Foundation. Akhtar's leadership was an important ingredient in helping us put this together... a renewed mechanism to support community technology that is owned and embedded in the developing world. A great day for sure!

re: Important Progress for the 520 Bridge

Mark Dubrow — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:17:54 GMT

Without pointing fingers, I have no doubt that many of the people who oppose diamond lanes are the ones who DO NOT use them regularly. Their comments and reasoning for not having them are often selfish.

re: Important Progress for the 520 Bridge

Michael Ray — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:34:42 GMT

Having commuted in the Seattle area for most of the past 10 years I can say that in my opinion the diamond lanes are just enough incentive to encourage me to coordinate with others who have similar commutes. King County's vanpool system works great and Microsoft's support of the system makes it very inexpensive -- usually free. It is a little work to coordinate schedules with a few strangers, but for the most part it's a great deal.

Would I vanpool without the diamond lanes? I don't know. But I've done it all... driven myself... rode with another driver... bicycled... and bussed... and I can tell you that because of the diamond lanes, when I drive, I always try to coordinate with another person. Especially during those times discussed above. My commute is about 15 miles and the diamond lane saves time.

re: Delivering Broadband Accessibility for People with Disabilities

Mary Kathryn — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:45:55 GMT

Laura - Apologies for the comment not on your post. I read the NYT article today on the Sensecam and am fascinated. I have a grandmother with Alzheimers and would love to get her a box. Can you -- or one of your colleagues -- do a post about getting this technology to market?

Thank you,

Mary Kathryn

re: Important Progress for the 520 Bridge

David Spinazzola — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:02:46 GMT

Having lived in California in both the SF Bay Area and Orange County, I can say that in my opinion diamond lanes are a utopian dream that do not work to reduce congestion, it rewards the few at the expense of the many, and it causes more pollution, something the greenies don't want to talk about.

I'd propose that if diamond lanes MUST exist, then reverse the hours they are enforced. During peak traffic, say 6:00 AM to 9:30 AM in the mornings and in the afternoons between 4:00 PM and 6:30 PM open up all lanes, after peak reward the carpoolers. This reduces congestion and pollution and gets people out of their cars and to their jobs and their families.

Oh, and the idiotic light rail proposed by crazy man Mike McGinn, forget about it unless you did what they did in the SF bay, build a system like BART, that works! it's fast and is more fee's cover costs. And add bike lanes like the 90, takes up less space and would get more use anyway.

re: UPDATE: The Browser Choice Screen for Europe

Ali — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:54:54 GMT

The ones who cared always knew what to do and where to find.

re: Steve Ballmer’s Thoughts on Cloud Computing

Ali — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:46:07 GMT

Indeed, Cloud Computing is what John McCarthy once said that "computation may someday be organized as a public utility".

re: UPDATE: The Browser Choice Screen for Europe

Dennis Butler — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:29:50 GMT

What sort of nonsense is this? I have disabled IE with my firewall software for over 5 years, during which time I've used Firefox as the default. But, I use Outlook, which seems to be associated in some way with IE, and so received this idiotic 'Browser Choice Screen' update notification. And now, if I decline the update, I expect to be left with irritating problems.

This update is:

(i) A legal non-entity

(ii) A means for Microsoft to assess their market-share in Europe.

(iii) An infuriating waste of time