Yesterday’s keynote address by His Billness made it crystal clear. Microsoft isn’t going anywhere with opening any APIs for its Web programming. See some excellent reporting by Scott Fulton at my old haunt here:

The question was literally shouted at him, will you open your API the way Google does? The answer is no. ... For the first time in years, other players are setting the rules, and Microsoft is choosing not to play by those rules. All of a sudden, Microsoft finds itself the outsider, the holdout, the would-be up-and-coming player, and Bill Gates finds himself playing the role of the conservative stalwart, resistant to change, impervious to the winds of history.

Today, we learned that Vista isn’t going anywhere, either. At least not this year.