>I guess they're keeping you busy up there!

Very.

>I was referring to the words "the cloud". Regardless of who coined it first, or exactly when, it is my sense that Ballmer et. al. have a special meaning behind it (that they are not necessarily sharing with too many people at this point).
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>I came by this opinion after watching the 'netcasts' of the conference of May or so of 2000 (or was it even 1999?) where .NET was first publicly introduced. I downloaded the transcripts, read them, and came to the conclusion I outlined in my note.
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>By the way, I hope that I'm wrong in that conclusion, but to date have not heard anything causing me to rethink the issue.
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Hmmm...I dunno. Could be they got it from somewhere else but since they're high visibility ....