We’re In Your Documentation…

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tutoriel5.jpgDavid Revoy spotted a bunch of Blender screenshots in the French Microsoft knowledgebase (Babelfish translation). Nothing fancy, but enough to make me chuckle and hopefully you, too!

David writes:

Hi Bart & Blendernation friends,

I was looking for a problem between my evil ATI hardware/vista/and Blender whenI discovered this page. Pretty illustration for microsoft.com website, nop ?

It make me smile in my hard research, that’s why I wanted to share it with you.

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    • kram1032

      Lol!
      They should have reported that themselves^^

    • notdot
    • Neil

      It’s a bit strange that this is used in an article about DirectX – when Blender uses OpenGL

    • toontje

      If Blender pops up in such obscure websites, then it is more popular than I thought it was.
      The power of open source: no permission needed to use Blender because of stupid copyright issues.

    • rpgsimmaster

      Well that’s quite interesting…

      I’m with toontje – it does seem to be more popular than I thought. Maybe it’s time for a ‘Great Blender Screenshot Hunt’ ;)

    • Arite

      Certainly something I would not expect to find on a Microsoft site!!

      Makes me smile as well :-).

    • me yoda

      the link “notdot” posted seems to talk about 3d generally and I think the “teapot madness” (title of the screenshot there) is made in 3DS Max, teapots are very well-known for Max…

    • Renato Perini

      @toontjie
      It’s fun that many consider software restrictions as “stupid” and then they never release their blend file to the public. ;) Seems that only people who write software has not the right to sell their work … Strange world.
      By the way, Blender *is* copyrighted.

    • http://techmeologysite.tripod.com/ Techmeology

      Microsoft… Open Source… Microsoft?…….. Open Source????…… The mind boggles.
      “The power of open source”… Such powers are one of the biggest draws for me.

    • davidh7426

      I see Microsoft are hard at work, as usual, using something that isn’t theirs, and claiming it as their own…

      …

      Is there such a thing as Screenshot Piracy…:)

    • davidh7426

      Addendum to Previous:

      If someone where to point out to Microsoft where the pictures actually come from, they only deny it, and claim that they are actually screen shots from one of their own projects.

    • http://lug.nnov.ru gumanoed

      and they don’t show icon borders couse article was made under linux?

    • http://lug.nnov.ru gumanoed

      and they don’t show windows borders couse article was made under linux?

    • rpgsimmaster

      gumanoed: Of course! What, you think they’d rely on their own software to get the job done reliably? Pshaw.

    • http://dev.com.br/dimy Francisco Ortiz

      There is something wrong with the virtual light “bulb”… Did you notice that guys? It is to small. FBI maybe? Or Man in Black; French division?

      Notice that “They” don’t know how to hide or delete the camera! What the camera had to be with their subject? :)) lol…

    • RedBirdiii

      If it is a documentation page, why didn’t they mention the source and the program of the screenshot.
      They despise talking about open source software, while most of their new features in Vista and others are from open source community.

    • http://lug.nnov.ru gumanoed

      I think they found their local 3D designer who was on line (couse it was people from French Blender Clan http://blenderclan.tuxfamily.org) and asked them to write something about 3D in Vista. Does it possable?

    • steve

      I don’t speak french very well, but I think the matrices are wrong!
      two of the thre “rotation” matrices are scale and translation…

    • http://e2-productions.com Dion Moult

      That really brightened up my day. My day is normally a blinding shine of white, but now it’s a blinding shine of white, orange, and blue. :)

    • Morris

      jajajajja. I was just reading it as a tipical news update or feature explanation, noting different opinions and reactions, then just suddenly..LOL I just had too. that is just too funny!! ok… back to normalcy

    • http://www.davidrevoy.com David Revoy

      Haha ! Thanks for the publishing of the link , I’m sure a lot laughted of it.

      for my a problem between my evil ATI hardware/vista/and Blender ; I resolved it

      – > Changing the Os for Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn”, more speed and stable.
      Micrososoft Vista have a so bad support of OpenGl…

      :-P

    • Richard

      This wasn’t the first time this happened. plexersheep at Elysin (now Blender Artists) discovered that Microsoft bundled Blender (along with the source code) on a cover CD for the March issue of Microsoft Windows XP magazine.

      Here’s the thread here…
      http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=62522

    • Richard

      While searching I also found that they have also used Elephants Dream for a demo for their VC-1 compression.

      Located here…
      http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=270aef06-4ca5-4e0c-a116-f7fa721bd6be&DisplayLang=en

    • http://www.davidrevoy.com David Revoy

      ^
      ^
      Excellent Richard ! Elephant Dream look to be a standard to test video compression,
      It’s strange that Microsoft with their colossal money never sponsoring a blender project, and if they do, did you think Blender foundation would accept ? I think yes, why not. Most of the Blender user looks to install it on windows Xp.

    • alamonelf

      I found the story amusing. However I found to be really funny the shadow of conspiracy. It could well be marketing genius. They have convinced us all to refer the actions of individual people, departments, local branches, etc. as the actions of a single entity. In the ‘megacorp’ category few with as many arms have so little an idea what the other hand is doing.

      Marvelous bit ‘o’ fun TY.

    • kit89

      If you think thats funny Microsoft where recently recommending to everyone on there main website to use Ubuntu. :)

      Whats going on I don’t know?

    • davidh7426

      Those of you who use a Microsoft OpSys, and get their Emails about NEW products will probably already know about this, but Microsoft are releasing a product called Silverlight, and also one called Blender 2 August Preview…

      They require .NET 3, and while I cannot say for certain whether Silverlight works or not… I do know that the blender 2 most resoundingly doesn’t…

      My point (finally) is that it just seems suspiciously co-incidental that a French Microsoft site, are using images from the REAL BLENDER, and at the same time Microsoft itself is releasing software that uses the name Blender…

      Call me suspicious, but I think they are upto something, again…:)

      P.S. If Microsoft Blender 2 goes the way of the dodo and Vista, it isn’t going to reflect kindly on the REAL BLENDER is it…

      P.P.S. Does anybody know what Blender 2 Preview is supposed to be, apart from dead in the water, that is…:)