We just saw a stark example of that with MySpace. Bill, they’re using your technology, which is great. The BBC guy said, well I’ve got my space, and he was referring to his stuff. And then you dragged it down, you wanted to share a show. You dragged it down onto a profile record, which was part of the Microsoft suite of technology. So, one, would you tell the MySpace guy to open up, and two would you open up and make sure that we can access the profile records that are built into your contact system so we can move our data between systems. You’re not the only system, and I know Tim wants to move between systems. We all want to have open APIs on everything.

BG: Absolutely. Well, I think what the MySpace guys have done is quite amazing, I think they’ve set their priorities right. But I definitely think we can help them as they want to provide those APIs. Ebay and others have shown they can provide those open APIs in such a way that it enhances what you’re doing, it doesn’t take away from that. And they’ve gotten to the critical mass now where I think that’s a huge opportunity for them.

BG: The contact store that we were looking at there is the standard Windows API for the address book. And making that address book rich and shared across applications is one of the big things we’ve got in Vista. You know, there’s this constant change where things that were up in the application, private to an application, catch on enough and now are shared across applications. The presence information is one of those things, the address book, buddy list, calendaring, those are things now that are moving from an application level down to a shared system level, and we just need to make sure we get the right APIs so that’s easy for people to do.