1.	Saturday morning I had breakfast at Buck's with Doc Searls and Phil Hughes of Linux Journal. A snippet from the conversation. Doc says he admires Microsoft for being able to "turn on a dime" to embrace the Internet. I realized that Microsoft had not turned at all. What's actually been happening is that Microsoft is exerting tremendous energy to stay right where it is. Such a waste, they could be kicking back and stay right where they are. (And of course nothing stays where it is. The world is revolving at 1000 MPH. We're all getting older. And new people are being born. And some of them are growing up and want more options than IIS, VB and ASP.)
2.	In the end, the turn of the earth has more effect on the position of Microsoft than anything Microsoft does. I've read the history, I've watched up-close for five years as Microsoft has struggled and then struggled again with the Internet, and they never overcome it, and they never will. It's a fascinating show of hubris. The answer is so obvious, just ask what the world wants, and do your best to give it to them. Microsoft keeps trying to rephrase the questions and the world keeps saying "No, that's not what we meant."
3.	Hey all this is from my point of view. A student of Microsoft and the Internet and a proud Internet developer who supports Windows because it's an excellent operating system that lots of people use. Can Microsoft be anything else to me? Probably not. But that's not so bad!