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# Le Web 08: Microsoft, Bizspark and Openness
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2008/12/ah_and_the_conference_kicks_1/
- Published: 2008-12-09T08:37:35.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:09:17.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: azure, bizspark, enterprise 2.0, microsoft, startups, the cloud

Markets collapse and rebuild, he suggested. That’s when you can have real change.

Silverlight? It’s a front and centre tech at Microsoft. Cross-platform and cross-browser.

Is Microsoft warm and cuddly, now, with all this cross-platform, open standards stuff? “A little bit.”

Are they going to buy Twitter? “I have no forward looking statements to make today.”

That seems a shame at an inherently forward-looking conference.