Edit: Oops, one more link: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/oct04/10-05msacrossamericapr.mspx

Ok, I'm an idiot, ignore this post : )

1) http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/category/onair2007/

2) http://thecodetrip.com/

So is this something software companies do a lot? The first I heard of it was the Adobe one, but maybe it this has been happening over and over, and the buses never make it to Manitoba... If it is just a straight copy, man, first they have PDF Envy with XPS (I looked that name up btw), then Flash envy with Silverlight, and now it seems even bus trip envy. So what is next, hairstyles? Finding out what these people name their pets?

"Man, if we only had a public faced tech guy with a little grey streak on the front of his hair, oh and a blogger named John that sometimes wore a cowboy-ish hat... What else, well looky here, we need to rename fluffy to BlingThing-- doh, that is it -- now Silverlight will take off like a rocket!"

Ok, or more likely someone wanted a good road trip, and who can question pure heart motivation like that... PS, Mantioba is up from North Dakota, stop by for all the hot chocolate you can hold : ).