[The Times Online via Universal Rule] “After a week with a Windows machine I get the feeling that this system is designed by people who know a lot about computers. Macs, on the other hand, seem to be designed by people who know a lot about people.”

[Scoble on Longhorn] “Now, let’s look at what’s really going on here. We’re going back to being a great platform company. We’re trying to provide a platform that lets developers build new applications that are impossible to build on other platforms. At the PDC you saw some of that. New kinds of forms. New kinds of games. New kinds of business apps. New kinds of experiences.“

Can software produce an emotional response? Can a platform excite developers? Sometimes I think with my day job, im too close to be unbiased, but when I finally got to see the longhorn demos and PDC prep runs, I think I said “holy shit!” more times in a single seating than I can remember. It’s exciting times to be a developer again.