Pretty interesting reading about the MSFT-AOL interop issues. I was also under the impression Messenger was closed/proprietary, correct? As an unrelated note,

Pretty interesting reading about the MSFT-AOL interop issues. I was also under the impression Messenger was closed/proprietary, correct? As an unrelated note, this part is weird: "Microsoft’s Vista operating system, which needed to be restarted almost from scratch in order to ship three years late, came because it was written in a new language of Microsoft’s own design, called C#, that did not offer sufficient micromanagement to make Vista run quickly enough" ... not sure what he's talking about there. Anyone?