In my previous post, I mentioned that I didn’t really get where Microsoft went with some of the aspects of ASP.NET. Google is making huge waves with all the cool stuff they are doing exploiting the ideas MS had back with IE 4.0 and MSXML’s introduction. IE 5.0 and 6.0 didn’t break new ground, but matured MSXML, yet, as far as I can tell, didn’t use it to it’s full potential.

CNET has posted recently some interesting articles about Google and Microsoft - looks like MS is playing catch up again, just like they did with the Internet some 10 years ago - even to some of Gates’ own ideas. And I won’t mention some of the comparisions to Google and MS’s Hailstorm and the Google toolbar and MS’s Smart Tags . (Another interesting link.) Maybe we trust Google more than Microsoft? (I personally don’t use any browser toolbars - should I start?)

And while I think Java is pretty cool, Sun missed something by not realizing their own slogan - “The Network is the Computer”.

Sorry if this seems jumbled… just wanted to blog it since I usually spend too much time thinking about how to say it right and then I never get around to it!