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I just had a great IM conversation with Robert Scoble, Technical Evangelist for Longhorn (the next major version of Windows). Who knew busy MS employees could be so open, available, a pleasure to talk to? Is Scoble starting a cultural change at MS? Who knows, we'll see... Scoble posted his MSN IM on his blog with an open invitation for anybody to chat. Dave Winer... what's your IM?

Scoble and I briefly chated about: Eclipse and the lack of a similar application framework for .NET; selling Windows (or how not to, and why I dislike Microsoft's lack of informative marketing); a conversation Bill Gates and I had when I was an intern at Microsoft in which he argued that he didn't care that people saw Windows 98 as a $98 bug fix because the marketing efforts never said what was new with 98 because his real target was Gateway, Dell, and Compaq; and some other random complaints. Basically I complained about MS and he listened. I like that. Normally when somebody complains about Microsoft the only people that care to listen are Microsoft bashers to begin with, not somebody who wants to help improve the company.