Maybe I was just ticked.

[sarcle]

I just had to bust Microsofts balls a little. So I made a reply on their blog for idn's. I think it was just a matter of watching a 2 hour speech from Bill Gates last night and getting nothing about IE7 in return.

Link (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/12/19/505564.aspx#comments)

I was getting a little tired of seeing the same debates, and same questions. So I decieded to throw out a completly nonsense post.

[Rubber Duck]

After watching last nights performance, which is bloody inconvenient if you live in the UK,
I did not not feel anger or envy, the only emotion I felt beyond utter boredom and exhaustion was pitty. I just think sometimes it must be hard being Bill Gates.

[sarcle]

This writer was unimpressed also.

However, many of the features shown off during Gates’ opening keynote on Wednesday night have already been nearly overexposed.

For instance, in what Microsoft billed as “the first broad demonstration of Windows Vista for consumers,” Gates demoed new 3D navigation technology for maneuvering among scads of open browser and application windows, which the company has codenamed Flip 3D. Never mind that technical preview participants and beta testers have been experimenting with the feature for months already.

This will be the year that Microsoft has to deliver Vista, Office 12, Internet Explorer 7, and the company’s search capabilities or lose more ground to key competitors -- Google and Firefox, among them. Recent figures show, for instance, that PC sales volumes continue to swell while Microsoft’s share of the browser market has now slipped to about 85 percent, ceding a full 10 percent to Firefox.

News Link (http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=7119)