[Bush2000]

I can foresee one problem for Microsoft and that is how to deal with Mono.

My bet is that they'll tolerate Mono -- and by all signs from the Mono team, MS engineers are cooperating with the effort, if not endorsing it outright. The open source community is suspicious of Mono because of the threat of patent infringement. But, in all likelihood, MS will let it ride because it will strengthen the .NET platform just that much more. And sell lots of copies of VisualStudio.NET in the process.

[BuddhaBoy]

Do you know anything about the rumor that Microsoft is going to buy Macromedia? I personally am pulling for that, so that VS can get some better design tools. VS.NET is great in every area but that one.