1.	Lots of mail from yesterday's piece about Microsoft Office 2000.
2.	I also met with usability pundit Jakob Nielsen to demo our new software, and to schmooze about the web, the industry and where all this stuff is going. I like Jakob. We have rapport. I suggested we do a radio show together. What do you think?
3.	Jakob said many interesting and provocative things. Like this one. "If you're an Internet user you have to have Office."
4.	"Why?" I asked. "You have to have Office because you'll get Word documents or Excel spreadsheets or PowerPoint presentations as email enclosures, and how will you read them if you don't have the apps that created them?" he asked.
5.	I knew that! So, far from a last gasp it seems like these apps are here to stay. Maybe the web is smaller than Microsoft? Maybe it is, and I don't like it. I want the web and the world to be much much larger.
6.	So, in the spirit of Linus, "I don't care, we'll just keep making our software better."