Preface

Each year Microsoft invites all the MVPs from every technology and country to Redmond for an MVP Summit—all top secret—“don’t tweet what you see!” During the MVP Summit, each product team holds a series of presentations where they explain their technologies, share their vision, and listen to some honest feedback.

At the 2007 MVP Summit in Seattle, Bill Gates presented his vision of the future of computing to the MVPs and then took questions for about an hour. I really enjoy these dialogues. I get the sense that if BillG wasn’t the founder of Microsoft, he’d make a great MVP. You can tell he likes us as fellow Geeks, and he’s rather candid in the MVP Q&A time. It’s one of my favorite parts of the MVP Summit.

During the Q&A, the lines ...

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