Maybe I Contributed to the Windows-based Kitchen Client

Posted on June 7, 2007 No Comments

Mary Jo Foley, the Microsoft watcher over at ZD Net, wrote an article yesterday about the upcoming “kitchen client” Windows platforms. These two paragraphs should sum it up if you’ve not read it yet:

The ?Kitchen Client? software will extend the Windows operating system and integrate with current and future Windows Live services, according to sources close to the company. It sounds, from what I can tell, more like an add-on layer than a whole new version of Windows.
Among the features Microsoft is planning to make part of its forthcoming kitchen computing environment are a family calendar, recipe center, entertainment features and a shared bulletin board, sources added.

(bold emphasis added by me)

To some extent, it might remind a person of Cozi (I mentioned Cozi back in February of this year). Lots of potentially useful (and definitely neat) stuff to help families keep in sync and organized.

What strikes me as amusing is this bit I wrote in that afore-mentioned Cozi article:

About a year and a half ago I had a visitor from Microsoft interview my wife and I about some sort of planned ?family tracking? application. Cozi seems to be very similar to what we discussed at the time. [...]

Deja vu all over again — after reading about this Windows kitchen stuff, I had the exact same thought. Maybe, just maybe, some of the interesting stuff the wife and I discussed with a Microsoft usability engineer is really going to see the light of day?

Would I dream of claiming credit? Heck no! But I’d sure like to claim I was involved.