Usability sponsored by Microsoft with expected results

All set to sign the charter of www.worldusabilityday.org when I noticed this:

Live Webcast Will Close World Usability Day 2007 – Download Required in Advance
Posted: 08 November 2007 at 17:19

Please note: you must download the Microsoft Office Live Meeting Software prior to the webcast. We recommend that you download the software well in advance of the webcast. These instructions (.doc) will guide you through the process.

Our closing session, which will be webcast live on November 8th at 6:00 pm United States Eastern Standard Time (11:0 pm GMT!), will feature an address from Redmond, WA, entitled “Learnings from the Healthcare Industry: Trends, challenges and directions for best principles”. Microsoft’s Andrew Kirby and Linda Walmer talk about challenges and progress in this area, including what we can all do in the effort to create and apply best practices in this domain. Andrew Kirby is Director of the National Health Service Common User Interface project in Microsoft’s Solutions Development team in the UK. Linda Walmer is User Experience Director in the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft, located in Redmond, WA. (And Bill Gates even chimes in with a taped closing statement!)

So aside from the old content on their web site, they're asking people to download proprietary software, which will require instructions in another proprietary format, and I don't even see where they promise the meting will be two-way.

That's usability!

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