When Having Friends Over To Watch The Golden State Warriors Turns Into An Impassioned Debate About Zoom And Microsoft Teams
You thought people didn’t have strong feelings about videoconferencing? They do when they’re senior executives sitting for eight hours a day on Zoom or Microsoft Team. It’s daft, I know.
My Covid-19 Conversation with Dr. Michael Osterholm.
Covid-19 has dominated lives this year. As part of Yellowbrick Data’s Answers For A World That Can’t Wait event, I had a fireside chat — socially distanced firesides — with Dr. Michael Osterholm. Dr. Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. He’s often seen on Meet The Press and elsewhere and offers forthright views about the pandemic. (Please forgive me, but there’s a few seconds of runup. Thank you, YouTube.)
Angry Microsoft customers started to contact me. This is what happened next.
Imagine you have a really good product. Imagine you’re going to launch it. Now imagine your best idea is to force it upon your customers, so that some think it’s malware.
Imagine you’re Microsoft.
In which I discuss a strange night out.
There we were, my wife and I, actually out to dinner. It took a while before we realized what was really going on. And when we did, it was almost life-affirming. So much so that I had to do a ZDNet video about it.
