Hey, I shipped stuff too!
posted by laurel @ 3:13 PM
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Inspired by Dave's list, I pulled out my own Ship It plaque from the box of stuff from MSFT that I still haven't sorted and disposed of yet. Mine also has Fame and Shame.
Fame
- Pocket PC 2002
- Microsoft Mobile Information Server 2002 Enterprise Edition (could that name be any longer?)
- Smartphone 1.0
- Windows Mobile 2003
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So, we differ only on Windows Mobile 2003 being fame or shame ... why shame for you?
Because, unlike you, I'm not refering to the amount of work I put into the product. :)
Oh, come on. WM2003 was the first usable Smartphone and a decent PPC upgrade.
I only ever got two ship-its. They'd both qualify as shame, no matter what criteria you use.
I forget what I even did with my plaque, or more like trophy. I think I donated it to the Salvation Army, so there's probably some homeless person out there with it in his shopping cart.
I'm surprised you got two! Sidewalk was one, I assume ... what was the other?
Sidewalk version 2.
Can't let the obvious comment go -- there was a Sidewalk 2???
Oh, cry, cry our beloved Sidewalk!
There should be Ship Its that are collector's items. Like for Mungo Park or something.
I think the best one would be for Microsoft Bob.
Yes, there was a Sidewalk v 2.0. At least I'm pretty sure that's what the called it, because I remember wondering why the bumped the rev number so much for what was a minor improvement. Really it was 1.1 or even 1.0.5. I don't even remember what the hell the improvements were supposed to be.
There was even a third version, after I left, when it suddenly morphed into a consumer product buyers' guide. Mega-lame.
God, I miss Sidewalk. I know we made a lot of fun of it at the time, but it turned out to be a very useful thing, and I've never found a similarly useful version of the same idea since.
I almost got a Bob 2.0 ship-it ... if it had shipped.
In one of the big project meetings after conversion to the mega-lame buyers guide was announced one of our senior program managers made the same point. He liked it as it was, and there was nothing else that was as good for finding restaurants and entertainment. But our business unit manager replied to the effect that "Yeah, I'm sure it's great for you. And if there were only about 50 million more 28-year-old single multi-millionaires in the country, we could make money off it."
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