PDC: Microsoft's Greg Sullivan on XML, information systems, Google

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Toward the end of Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference here on Thursday, we sat down with the company's group product manager for Windows, Greg Sullivan, to chat about the emergence of a "big picture" vision of Windows appearing and working everywhere, not just on PCs, but on handheld devices, the back ends of digital cameras, and the ice makers on refrigerators. Connecting all these seemingly unrelated devices is a standards-driven contextual information sharing system that Microsoft - and perhaps only Microsoft - is developing.

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I am not a big fan of MSFT and don't do programming, but MSFT just got hit with a big fine for using XML(?) from a firm in Texas that they "borrowed", how does all this fit together