Microsoft Showing Old Self

I can’t believe it I am actually proud of what I’ve seen from Microsoft lately. Bing is good, and in my mind is a shot across Google’s bow. Windows 7 is remaining clean and in the right direction. I even like their commercials lately. They dropped the running app limit for starter edition of Windows 7 too. I only hope they get Silverlight adoption right. They will be back in old competitor crushing form.

I hope a couple of the old mexican restaurants hear in Phoenix make a return to their old forms. I’ve always liked Arriba and Macyos, but as they expanded their mini chains, I think their food and innovation suffered a bit. One thing I am finding in this recession is that upping quality is the only way to justify not lowering prices. I hope these once greats take that into account. I also hope Microsoft decides to look at Silverlight as a way to get back some of the hobbie programmers they lost when the jumped VB to .Net and stopped supporting VB6. A low barrior language for Silverlight would catch Adobe way off guard, and would really spread adoption.