We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.

We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward.

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

We provide many options in many product areas that they seem to want to adopt, and that's working well for us.

In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.