The Pillars

As promised, here are the Pillars of Fame and Shame, and why each ship-it is in each. Note that "fame" and "shame" don't mean I think that the product was good or bad, rather my own reflection on the amount I deserved the ship-it award for my work.

The Pillar of Fame

• Plus! for Windows 98: My first gig as a developer, I worked on the Deluxe CD Player
• Windows 2000: More Deluxe CD Player work, plus lots of little updates to the multimedia apps
• Pocket PC 2002: Developer on Pocket Internet Explorer
• Windows Mobile 2003: Dev lead for Pocket Inbox
• Windows Mobile 5.0: Dev lead for Pocket Inbox (for most of it)

The Pillar of Shame

• Greetings Workshop: This was back in the day when if you worked on a component, and it shipped in three products, you got a ship-it for the third one. So I never actually worked on Greetings Workshop. I was a tester on Microsoft Audio Manager (aka "Audioman") and never actually even used Greetings Workshop
• Windows 98 Second Edition: I made one bug fix in this product, which involved deleting a single line of code in the MIDI file player.
• Windows Me: Believe it or not, this *should* be in "Fame" but once you stick it on the plaque, the ship-it is hard to remove. Why? Wasn't "Me" a silly product? Well, yes, but I put it in "shame" figuring that I'd get another ship-it for Windows Media Player 7, which I really did work on a lot. However, turns out the "Me" ship-it was to represent WMP7, as it was its primary ship vehicle. Oh well.
• Smartphone 2002: I didn't have much to do with this product, although Pocket IE just happened to run well on it. I was more involved in the later Smartphone versions, which were covered in the "Windows Mobile" ship-its.