I had the chance today to participate in the today's started XV Sinfo, the computer science week here at IST, and to watch to some of the talks that were given. Unfortunately, my class schedule didn't allow me to participate in everything, but I managed to see two thirds of a talk hosted by Raymond Chen from Microsoft.
It was quite fun actually, since this was not supposed to be, as Raymond said , one of that talks in which you actually learn something. It was rather a nostalgic narration of fun events that only one working for Microsoft for so long can have in the bag of memories.
So, it seems, Windows XP, one of the most successful windows versions, comes, in its CD, with a hidden encrypted version of Microsoft Bob, one of the biggest failures of Microsoft, just to fill up the remaining disk space.
Doesn't that make it one of the most shipped products ever?
Later today, after the class that didn't allow me to see the whole Raymond Chen's talk, I begged the oportunity to attend to Miguel Vicente's presentation, another guy from Microsoft, talking about the Imagine Cup. It was a very good presentation actually, not because of the project itself, but rather because of the direction that was given by Miguel, that turned out to talk most of the time about "changing the world", creating and having ideas that actually matter.