<s> Google is scatter-shot: throw it against the wall and see if it sticks. Their strategy, for right or wrong, is to let 1,000 flowers bloom, and see what's standing at the end. They are open about this. They then incorporate the results into new products. All that said, I'm going to really miss Google Reader sitting in my iGoogle page -- I'll miss both of them.

Hank

>And other companies aren't schizophrenic? How about, say, Google http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~GoogleBandWagon~Wiki
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>>I certainly agree that MS development in the business world is still and will continue to be thriving in .NET and .ASPnet (as you know that was what I was doing when I worked up the street from you :-) C# is very solid and the VS IDE just gets better and better. That's what I meant about MS as a schizophrenic company. When they are good, they are very very good. When they aren't they are Vista.
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>>But do you see WPF as gaining a lot of traction? Is there still interest in Silverlight?
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>>Don't you think the HMTL5/Jquery UI / business layer is going to gain the greatest acceptance wiht ASP .NET apps using MVC or WebServices and EF?