Microsoft Is Still Not Cool Scoble
By Adrian Sutton
Scoble thinks that Microsoft is cool because someone wrote a cool application that runs on Windows. Sigh. Talk about taking credit for other people’s work. I’m certain the same application could be created on Linux, Solaris or Mac OS X. Windows is the boring underlay that just happened to be there, not what makes the application cool. Maybe Jonathan Schwartz will blog about how the store could have avoided being locked into Windows by writing the application in Java, or RMS might write an open letter about how the application should be opensourced so that the community could improve it and reduce development costs for the store. None of that will matter in the end though because the RIAA will sue it into obvilion because people are just listening to the music on the in-store computers instead of buying the CDs.
Sigh, I’m not cynical, really…