Today I received the book that I bought at Amazon last week written by Mary Jo Foley on "How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era". The main title of the book is Microsoft 2.0.

While I was buying the book I decided to buy two more books, VSTO and Office development related, from Amazons 'used & new' service. Three great books for only a small amount of Euro's. Half of the price did go to shipping the books but compared to Dutch pricing still very cheap. I love the US $/Euro € conversion rate!

I once had the privilege to be contacted by Mary Jo to provide some comments on one of the VSTO versions to be released. VSTO is now completely integrated into Visual Studio but at that time it was a 'standalone' product. The questionaire I received wasn't a small one, she wanted to know everything there is to know about that product.

The message you hear a lot when that happens is the warning:
"Be careful with what you say if you are talking to Mary Jo, she will quote you and never think something you say is off the record!"

I don't know what to expect from the book, but I'm sure it will be fun to read. I'll get back to you on this whenever I finish reading the book.