by Nick
Friday, June 15, 2007 8:18 AM
Yesterday at work I was trying to scan around MSDN at some documentation on Excel automation, and it was super slow. It was really bugging the hell out of me.
Me: Man... MSDN is slow today.
Coworker: Actually, I'm trying to browse somewhere else and it's just crawling.
Me: Don't we have dual T1's coming in here?
Coworker: Yeah, I don't get it.
Then a few minutes later it all began to make sense. A high priority email came in from one of our other offices, sent to the majority of the company (just shy of the "Everyone" list) that had a 6 MB WMV file. It was a clip from a news broadcast talking about Microsoft Surface.
Who sends video files as email attachments to an entire company any more?! Have you not heard of Google Video, YouTube, or the many other video sharing websites in existance? Send a link to a YouTube video... it will take up a lot less bandwidth. And who sends it as a high priority email to boot?!
Web 2.0 people... learn it... live it... love it. And here is one video that demonstrates Surface... from YouTube of course.