Is Microsoft in our DNA?

So many of us with children joke that they are born with a computer chip, as technology seems to be a given with them.  When my ipod isn’t working properly or when I can’t figure out a new setting on my mobile phone I ask my 12 year old son for help.  If after about 5 to 10 minutes of playing around with my phone, computer, or ipod he can’t fix it then I know I will have to give in and call tech support—and we all know how much fun this can be!

Let’s face it though, tech geeks are in demand.  Geeks are hot.  Geek-chic is taking over, “Dorothy we are not in Kansas anymore”, these guys are wearing hand-embroidered $600 jeans, uber cool glasses, and Italian shoes.  Instant Acquired Wealth Syndrome is something that I’d say 9 out of 10 cases refers to the geeks who have made an enormous amount of money with their tech-based solutions—- solutions that continue to bring us all a little closer. . . . .

Personally, I am fascinated with their language, their creativity, and brains.  True every career has its own language- the language of finance, economics, medicine and whatnot, but geek language is continually being created and defined—it’s astoundingly fun!  I think geeks at large are having much more fun than their image allows us non-techies to believe . . . . .

Last week at the Microsoft WPC (World Partner Conference) in Denver, 10,000 or so Microsoft business partners met up to exchange tech solutions for just about every type of business you could think of—their was even a taxidermy solution, for well taxidermists.  I have to admit that I found all these “solutions” fascinating (once you figure out what in the hell they are talking about—get a geek to put what they are doing into lay terms there is no going back – I keep telling my friends they are just so damn creative).

Within a few short hours, after roaming the Expo Hall, I realized that there are very few of us left on earth who could live without Microsoft.  Let’s see how easy it would be for us to navigate our business worlds without Microsoft for a few days . . . . .  which has me wondering could Microsoft become part of our DNA?

Stay true,

M