Alex Barnett of MSDN said that Windows Vista will look like Windows of old, so improvements have to be incremental.

Barnett: These days there are multiple user Interfaces into Google and others, but the market is voting with its feet - they tend to stick with what they know.

Which is going to win though? Social search, intuitive search driven by Blinkx (or Autonomy for instance), or attention data (Microsoft Borg Profile)?

Barnett: OPML is just an enabler and people don't care. Kids will be accutely aware that they're data  is.

Chandratillake: Technologies don't matter - today we live in the library model of the internet. That's insane. You should be aloud to swim, whether it's via a mate or a search engine. It's about how we should be in the centre of it rather than viewing it through a text box which is that big.