posted by Adam S on Mon 19th Sep 2005 10:45 UTC IconThe news has
been around, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the development
process at Microsoft has to change after Windows Vista. The time
between releases is just too long, and Microsoft has to show
profit to keep shareholders happy. Some say the Redmond empire
is due for a slow collapse, but I think there exists an amazing
opportunity.  Microsoft is the sworn enemy of geeks internet
wide. Though there are many Windows supporters out there, there
are plenty who hate Microsoft. Microsoft, last week at the PDC,
announced some pretty impressive initiatives. Love them or hate
them, they are taking some big risks with a new user interface
for Microsoft Office, changing the core of their web server,
IIS, in very large ways to mimic many of the strengths of
Apache, embracing open XML via RSS, moving data from the
registry to the file system in Windows Mail, and even converting
their default Office document format to an "open[1]" XML-based
format similar to OpenDo