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Ask yourself: Could you do any better?

Yes.  I believe I could.

At the least, I could do it without sounding like a drunken zombie from Michigan.

Roz Ho...

*giggles*

Ask yourself: Could you do any better?

You bet. I have never had a fear of speaking to large audiences. As a matter of fact I get off on it. Heck I made a living MCing and DJing for over 10 years.
You would think MS could find someone who could give a energetic presentation. You know, like the Monkey Boy

BOOOOOOOOOORiiiinngggg!!!

W

I'm not sure about cocaine. I mean, I guess she could have been on coke but aren't coke-heads usually a bit more "on"? I would have (and did) assume she was on glue or maybe just plain drunk. Based on her facial expression (or lack thereof), her speech patterns - flat and zomboid, but not slurred - and generally disinterested demeanor I have to go with solvent abuse. I see a number of solvent abusers every night at work an I know what they look/sound/behave/smell like. Roz Ho fits the criteria necessary for the Thunder Bay Police to issue a public statement describing her as "a known gas sniffer".

All joking aside, she says a few words that come across with a heavy country bumpkin accent. I think she was speaking slowly and at a strange pace to keep herself from talking in that accent. Also, she keeps her top lip over her teeth while speaking - something people usually do when embarrassed by their own voice.

Maybe. But you have to admit, a solvent abuser in charge of MacBU would explain a lot.

If I worked there, I'd probably be more incliined to put the letter opener up my nose than sniffing the white out.

Roz Ho......

frightening.

I won't be visiting her beeewth.

A house of mirrors constantly filled with smoke?

No one here hates, loathes, despises, abhors, detests and deplores Microsoft more than I, but I have to say I think people here are being just a bit mean. Roz Ho and co. are minions of Evil, sure, but that doesn't  mean they themselves are bad people. They don't deserve to be attacked for their voices. If they were trying to be professional singers or actors or something like that it'd be different, but nothing they were doing invites this kind of criticism of their voices (and honestly, the vocal delivery wasn't that bad). Roz appeared to be speaking very deliberately, as though compensating for an accent or something, which is perfectly fine. She was a bit stiff, to be sure, but it's probably difficult for some people to deal with speaking live in front of thousands of strangers, and it's presumably not normally part of her job. When I rewatch the keynote via the streaming archive I'll skip past the MS presentation just because office software is inherently unsexy and boring, but I don't think we need to go out of our way to be mean to the presenters just for the way they talk (we can just be mean to them for working for Microsoft, which is enough).

No one here hates, loathes, despises, abhors, detests and deplores Microsoft more than I, but I have to say I think people here are being just a bit mean. Roz Ho and co. are minions of Evil, sure, but that doesn't  mean they themselves are bad people. They don't deserve to be attacked for their voices. If they were trying to be professional singers or actors or something like that it'd be different, but nothing they were doing invites this kind of criticism of their voices (and honestly, the vocal delivery wasn't that bad). Roz appeared to be speaking very deliberately, as though compensating for an accent or something, which is perfectly fine. She was a bit stiff, to be sure, but it's probably difficult for some people to deal with speaking live in front of thousands of strangers, and it's presumably not normally part of her job. When I rewatch the keynote via the streaming archive I'll skip past the MS presentation just because office software is inherently unsexy and boring, but I don't think we need to go out of our way to be mean to the presenters just for the way they talk (we can just be mean to them for working for Microsoft, which is enough).

If MS cared about selling their product, they would've picked people that are good at presenting products.  These people sucked at speaking publicly, but it didn't help that the software they were demonstrating lacked any substantial new features.  But I agree, it's not fair to criticize people's accents or voices.  Hell I have a stupid Pittburgh accent, so I can almost relate.  But Microsoft sent the wrong two people to do that presentation.

But hey, I doubt they'll ever read this, and they're both making much more than I probably will.  If a MS employee can't handle a little criticism from an Apple message board, then they're more pathetic than I thought.

Roz!

Roz!

Roz!

HO!!!!!!