#026 -- Tech -- Much is being made over problems at Microsoft. Disaffected employees, a brain drain to Google, a large, slow-moving bureaucracy. This all may be true, but is this really a bad thing? Microsoft is a somewhat different company than tech observers seem to think it is. It plays by different rules, and it plays for different stakes. Rumors of its demise may be exaggerated.

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Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte Guest: Mary Jo Foley, author of "Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era." Check out Paul's Blog at http://www.internet-nexus.com and the SuperSite for Windows http://winsupersite.com for more information. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Derek K. Miller. Running...

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Along with guest Michael Vizard, and with a week to think about it, The Gang considers the ramifications of Microsoft's Longhorn announcement: the stock market's non-reaction; implications for the channel and storage vendors; alternative user interfaces vs. Avalon/XAML.