Ever Wish You Could Whisper in Bill Gates’ Ear?
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Or maybe SCREAM? Well, you have your chance. It’s not been showing up on the nightly news, but Microsoft is now listening to YOU.
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Microsoft Turns On Channel 9
By Mary Jo Foley
The Redmond software vendor experiments with a combination of blogs, wikis and forums to increase customer dialogue.
On Tuesday, Microsoft quietly went live with a new Web site called “Channel 9″ that is designed to facilitate communication between Microsoft and its developer and customer constituencies.
The site, which was built using Microsoft’s ASP.Net Forums Web-based discussion technology, uses video clips, moblog technology, RSS feeds; wikis and forums to reach out to users.