Comments on: I’m Leaving Microsoft

By: Peter Near's Blog

Peter Near's Blog — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:25:20 +0000

Matt Goyer Leaving Microsoft…

Well boo! I really like Matt and what he’s contributed to both the media center product and the……

By: WintheLog :: Is Microsoft trying to kill Firefox? :: September :: 2006

WintheLog :: Is Microsoft trying to kill Firefox? :: September :: 2006 — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:17:56 +0000

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By: Paolo

Paolo — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:33:30 +0000

Cheers to you, Matt. Best of luck

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:14:10 +0000

Good luck, Matt. I enjoyed reading your blog about MCE. I got the your other blog on my RSS reader too.

I agree with everyone else that DVB-C/S support should be in Vista MCE. The open source project, Media Portal, have support for it (and support for many more tuners than MCE) so it really cant be all that difficult to add support for it. They dont get paid a penny for that and you guys get paid to do this, its your 8-5 job for crying out loud and they do it in their spare time, so there are no excuses for cutting it.

By: gn!uz

gn!uz — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:26:24 +0000

It’s too bad that you go.. But I believe you know best what to do. Goodluck in your career.

One thing that bothers me extremely though is the way DVB-C/S support is being pushed to somewhere around 2009… How on earth can MS make a decision like that? IMHO this is an absolute priority no.1 in order to make Mediacenter the worldwide marketleader.. How is it possible MS is only focusing on US market for live tv solutions..
What added value does Vista MCE have for Europe if we cannot watch digital (HD) TV via our mediacenter? Are we still destined to use our crappy analog tv cards? Not very next-gen.

I cannot imagine MS doesnt have a very good reason to push this forward..

I sincerly hope microsoft will clarify this as this all sounds very depressing..

By: Jan Johnsen

Jan Johnsen — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:09:34 +0000

Sorry to see you go. You are undoubtedly the pusher who enabled many good features of MCE and the Vista OS. Your energy and love for MCE is obvious to all you read your comments.

You will be sorely missed. I do hope you continue to blog a bit about MCE and Vista as you may personally encounter features, problems etc. on the outside.

Your departure is a great loss for Microsoft and the MCE comunity. I know that your replacement(s) will have big shoes to fill. And I hope he/they will be bloggers as well.

Will be looking forward to further personal posting you may make as a “civilian”.

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:58:48 +0000

Well that just plain sucks. Sorry to hear you’re leaving Microsoft – I really enjoyed your Media Center posts. It’s clear you have a passion for the project, and it sounds to me like Microsoft is the one that’s losing out on a great employee.

By: OffBeatMammal

OffBeatMammal — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:15:51 +0000

Hey Matt,
Just wanted to add my 2c worth of best wishes, and thanks for all you’ve shared here.
I’ve been an MCE early adopter (outside the US just to add to my woes) and this has been a little place I could go for handy tips and encouragement.
Hopefully they’ll let you keep your MCE rig… after all, you’ll probably make a very good active reference ;)

By: Brian Hoyt

Brian Hoyt — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:16:13 +0000

Oh well I was hoping for some more tid bits on HD-DVD support in the next few months. Sorry to see you think you are under appreciated. Hopefully you find fullfilment somewhere else.

By: MikeJ

MikeJ — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:12:34 +0000

Just from your blog, it doesn’t seem to difficult to figure out how all the “walking on eggshells with Hollywood” nonsense at Microsoft has brought you to this Matt.

Your history includes Napster alternatives and pirate radio stations, and your dislike for DRM methods is obvious. Microsoft hires you into their digital media division, and gives you responsibility for features for features that deal directly with Hollywood content such as DVD’s. Then the powers-that-be at MSFT decide to hop in bed with Hollywood and embrace DRM methods figuring they’ll control it all in the end. But in the process, they totally stifle creativity in the area they just made you responsible for. The conversations wouldn’t be hard to imagine…
MattG: “Hey boss, I’ve got some great ideas regarding DVD streaming and archiving in our new Vista Media Center. I wanted them in Symphony, but like you said, we just weren’t there.”
JoeF: “Uhhh, Matt…we’re still not there. We’d rather not rock the boat just yet, so we won’t be doing HD-DVD’s this time around either. Next release though, I promise.”
Matt: “But DVD’s and Movies are my feature…don’t I have any say in this?”
Joe: “Sorry Matt, talk to licensing. We’re just not there yet.”