“If you need some motivation here’s some. It’s now been 1 week since HelpSpot went live and free trials were available. In that time, 45% of all downloads have been for use with MS SQL Server.”

On the other hand Mike Sanders says it’ll be impossible for Microsoft to get into the new world. Says: “It is pretty clear to me that Microsoft in its present form can not possibly adapt to the changing technological world, since breaking the hierarchy is an integral part of that change.”

David Heinemeier Hansson (the guy who wrote Ruby on Rails) answers my post with: “To be frank, I don’t ever see the good times coming back for them. Microsoft will have to move to higher grounds. Get out of the infrastructure race. Like Apple did.”

John Evans thinks I’d leave to go to work for Google. Hmmm, no, I’m quite happy at Microsoft thank you very much!

That said, if I did leave, it wouldn’t be to work for two kids from Stanford. My wife went to Cal. That just wouldn’t go over in the family very well. 😉