For those who would say (like the senior George Bush) that
guys like me are “happy saying something negative,” you guys have forgotten how
much I gush
over Scott Guthrie. I’ve got nothing bad to say about this guy. The work of
his team speaks for itself. That he would actually say ‘XHTML’ places him alone
among the great ‘next generation’ Microsoft employees.
Scott is still
talking about being standards compliant when this mantra seems to escape most
Microsoft users and employees who are trying to ‘keep it real.’ When I hear
Scott talking about standards compliance, I am hearing a professional realize
that like Jeffrey
Veen web pages are publications that need style guides and standard
syntax—just like any traditional publication.
Most guys are slobs and they just want to get the job done
in two minutes or less. Guys like Scott make my two minutes count—and we don’t
come off as slobs.
Keep my Channel 9 comments positive by bringing in more SQL
Server folks, Don Box (of course) and some history about Microsoft Word (find
an old timer from the Microsoft Word team—since clearly the new guys are too
busy to go online).