Pete's Eats

I find myself coming into more and more contact with Microsoft these days, despite being highly critical of various aspects of the Windows platform etc. Thinking about it, this can only mean that Microsoft are beginning to make more contact with the web design/development community themselves. This is fairly interesting considering that Microsoft have been the ‘Skoda’ of our industry since the early days of MS Frontpage…

That said, I’ve always admired Microsoft as a company. I haven’t always admired their products, and I have never admired their attitude to the web browser experience, but ever since I started working in tech I’ve aspired to someday work for them – of course, my aspirations have levelled up over the years and these days I’d settle for Mr Gates’ position or nothing!

Thanks to an old friend, Wayne, I had cause to go along to the MS campus in the UK last summer and I wasn’t disappointed. It seemed like a fab place to work – as long as you could get past the fact that it was in Reading of course. Still, it made me consider going back to work for someone else for the first time in *years*.

Anyway, the reason for this post, is that I’m off to Mix ’06 in March thanks, in a big way, to Lynda Weinman. I’m very much looking forward to it to be honest and I’m very interested to see how much they want to engage the wider community with their new web design/development product range, Expression. Lynda has been a good friend for many years now and two opportunities to hang out in a month will be fun If you’re gonna be there then feel free to give me a shout (I’ll be staying at the Venetian for the duration).

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