```json
{
    "title": "Microsoft: The Thrill is Gone? Part 2",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/04/26/microsoft-the-thrill-is-gone-part-2/",
    "datePublished": "2005-04-26",
    "dateModified": "2026-05-09",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "The lazycoder brings joy to my heart with this. But in some respects, his comments are too narrow. I have been working directly with right on the tip of the…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Microsoft: The Thrill is Gone? Part 2

The lazycoder brings joy to my heart with [this](http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/archives/2005/04/25/not-excited-any-more/). But in some respects, his comments are too narrow.

I have been working directly with right on the tip of the wave tech for over a decade. I have been at least in the front part of the wave with a number of other cool ideas.

In the last year, nothing has given me a tech thrill. Nothing has made me feel the intense love that Internet performance used to.

I am alone? Is the malaise rampant? Is there something out there that can drag all of us out of this deep, dark hole we have fallen into? Or has this cutting-edge, "new! New! NEW!" wave finally reached the beach?

Scobelizer [comments on lazycoder](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/04/26.html#a9946).

Neuvo asks [the same question](http://wiredgecko.typepad.com/neuvo/2005/04/deep_inside_mic.html) I do

[Jeremy](http://www.ensight.org/archives/2005/04/26/ambivalent-at-microsoft/) wants just one thing from Microsoft to excite him...

[Cameron](http://reilly.typepad.com/cameronreilly/2005/04/microsofts_deep.html) feels that the exodus trend is different from others.