I don't see a win-win coming from this, but maybe we can create a fair solution that would be an acceptable compromise.

A lot of people only work to noon.

We're always busy St. Patrick's Day. But when it falls on a Friday, the NCAA tournaments have started and the place is packed.

One year from now, in December of '06, unless there's a funding solution for more dedicated funds for transit statewide, we will literally run out of money. That's the situation we're in.

[The second was the first beta of Windows Compute Cluster Solution, a version of the OS aimed at scientific and financial customers who need compute-intensive systems consisting of large server clusters. This is part of Microsoft's push into high-performance computing environments, areas where it's not been particularly successful, and where Unix rules.] The problem is a compute cluster solution has not been delivered by Microsoft [in the past], ... Our goal is to build a complete platform here. Compute Cluster allows people to build applications that scale across a large number of machines.

We want to be the platform that solution providers can use to run their businesses.