Wed 27 Jun 2007
Microsoft has a new PR site for Windows Server 2008. I played a little with it, but I somehow didn’t get the point behind this site. You can see a lot different faces. Nice faces, really! You can also upload your own picture, and show your face to the world. Okay, that is nice, too. But can someone please tell me what this has to do with Windows Server 2008?
Yeah, they have some “product information” about Windows Server 2008, too. You can learn things like this:
You can simplify server management, reduce costs, free IT resources, and improve resource availability for end users with the powerful features of Windows Servers 2008.
What? I can reduce my costs? I am so excited! I really wonder why these marketing guys don’t spare us with this “reduce your costs blah blah”. When you read on a vendor’s site that a product can help you to reduce costs. How do you react? “Wow really?? Please get me ten!” Or do you just think “Please, don’t waste my time! Time is money. Spending time with reading this useless marketing stuff just increased my costs.”
There is one thing I like about this site, though. There are some videos of the people who are behind Windows Server 2008. It is not that you get much information about Windows Server 2008, but it is nice to see the guys who are responsible for a product you are going to use.
More useful stuff about WS08 can be found at this Technet Beta Central site. It is interesting to note that the links to the Web Forums and to the Windows Server Blog come before the official product pages. Whoever is responsible for this site seems to understand that it makes more sense to provide real information to customers instead of boring them to death with these reduce your costs orgies.
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It’s just a try of copying Suns German Sysop-Website - this is a thriving community which really works, so there is something behind the faces.
In the Microsoft-tryout, you might see the idea that was behind the marketing people, but do not the facts and community behind it.
Anyway, a tip to MS: trash it!
Manfred.
Hi Manfred! I am not even sure about the purpose of the faces site. MS already has many community related sites. Maybe the idea was just to introduce the Windows Server 2008 team. I just don’t understand why I should upload my picture there. There seems to be no way to contact the other “faces�. So what kind of community is this where its members can’t even communicate?