Beyond3D had the opportunity to speak with Chris Donahue of Microsoft recently. Being the Lead Evangelist for Windows when it comes to convincing developers that Windows is the best there is, we decided to ask him a variety of questions, ranging from what he actually does, to DirectX and its importance, to companies like NVIDIA and ATI , to the next major Microsoft operating system codenamed Longhorn. Chris was previously the manager of Developer Relations at NVIDIA so he should provide some interesting insights about working with the independent hardware vendors as well.
An Interview with Lead Evangelist Chris Donahue
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This guy seems pretty good.
This is a big questionmark for other platforms. Direct X has indeed come quite far, and other platforms are lagging behind. As far as I can think, the only player who can do something about this is Sony.
Sony is the only big player which has enough might to throw something back at microsoft. Unfortunately there isn’t any viable platform available as far as I know.
OBOS is the only platform I can think of this very second that would be a choice, but it’s too far from completion….
Wonder what will happen
An evangelist is a poor descriptive term for almost anybody at microsoft. Real evangelists receive and care little for money. Their love and their life is on a higher plane. Not microsoft!!!!!
An evangelist is a poor descriptive term for almost anybody at microsoft. Real evangelists receive and care little for money. Their love and their life is on a higher plane. Not microsoft!!!!!
So no people at Redhat+IBM+Novell are evangelists. Thank you, now we know that… in fact same goes for all people at MySQL too.
What exactly is your point?
An evangelist is someone who evangelise… In terms of this guys view on Direct X 9 + game developing community and how their allways more innovative than the rest of the bunch I guess you could call it evangelising, which would make him an evangelist.
What you spread is the so popular term called FUD!
Disrespect MS for what they do WRONG, not what they do RIGHT!
Many people cannot win by basing their arguments on facts. Instead, they seek to redefine words so they win. If Windows was free, and advertised as such; geeks would be up in arms complaining about how Microsoft is misusing the word free.