Yesterday was an exciting day here at MIX06 with a fun keynote and great demos of software appellations that live on the Web. There are Labs and Ultra-Mobile demos, XBOX 360's, Media Center PC's and all the plasma you come to expect in Las Vegas.
Arriving on sight early this morning I jumped on the Wi-Fi and checked the email. After working my way through a bunch of blogs I turned to the NYTimes and was stunned to read Steve Lohr's bitter account of what was going on here in the neon city of the desert.
Microsoft Develops Version of Internet Software Tools
Not a word about Tim O'Reilly's conversation with BillyG and not one nice thing to say about ASP.Net, Atlas or Vista. Steve does mention Scott Dietzen of Zimbra whom I met last week at SXSW. Zimbra makes a web based email and calendaring system that’s adequate for running a small business, but it's no Exchange killer. Zimbra uses AJAX, something that was developed by Microsoft, Atlas is the next generation of asynchronous interactive technology .
Have a look at Virtual MIX and see what is going on here at mix06 .