"My story about Microsoft in the Seattle Weekly received a surprising number of responses. Slashdot’s link to the article last Thursday helped generate more than 175,000 page views proving again that no news is local news. I decided to post a follow up to the article given the number of letters and comments I’ve received from people over the past week...
"Some people from Microsoft complained that I didn’t talk more about the products they are working on e.g. Longhorn, Tablet PC, Xbox2, Smart Phones, etc. I did ask Microsoft PR to let me talk to people with Longhorn and the other product groups but they ultimately declined..."