> Actually, I think since Longhorn there are signs that businesses are a bit more sceptical about these bold technology announcements from Microsoft. They used

> Actually, I think since Longhorn there are signs that businesses are a bit more sceptical about these bold technology announcements from Microsoft. They used be able to pretty much control the weather but these days they have a hard time getting people to use things like Silverlight, WPF or XNA. I have had the same observation, but it seems to me that companies are stagnating on technology rather than innovating on different platforms. They still use Microsoft, but they're using increasingly old Microsoft.