You know Microsoft has a marketing problem when none of us (Dave Winer, or the MVPs) can figure out what XDocs are for. I've been looking at the Web page and I still don't understand. Maybe this is why they didn't leak this stuff to the MVPs before they talked with eWeek. And that's sad, because I actually am probably a potential customer for XDocs. What it looks like is some sort of super dooper forms engine. I need to make forms here at NEC. I'm looking for ways to automate my work. I use Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and occassionally Access, so am a hard-core user. But, since the marketing team hasn't done a good job of explaining XDocs, I wonder if this technology will be harder to use than Access. Oh well, we won't find out until it gets released next year, I'm sure. Today was just a play to see if Microsoft could get mentioned on the front of eWeek. I'm sure the marketing types get a bonus based on how many times eWeek and news.com writes about them. Mission accomplished. Maybe their bonuses should be structured by how many new products actually get sold.
Isn't one of Dave's mottos "It's worse than it appears?"
Fred Thompson is an actor who became a politician who has returned to his roots.
Thanks to TiVO I was able to catch up on the season premiere of Law and Order. The new District Attorney is played by a sitting US Senator from Tennessee, Fred Thompson. A real politician playing the role of a politician. Hmmmm. [Scripting News]
