Today is Company Meeting day!

I love Company Meeting day--no scarasm at all here: what s not to love about 90,000 geeks assembled in a baseball stadium (or gathered around their LiveMeeting screens)?

Yeah, we ll be sitting in uncomfortable Safeco Field seats for about eight hours (we never, ever, start or end on time). Yeah, it s gonna be cold, and the only food we ll have is box lunches. Yeah, traffic is gonna absolutely suck in both directions.

But it s the company meeting! We ll get to hear all kinds of exciting news and executive insight about what the next year holds for us, like:

  • What will the next version of Windows be like? (I expect a demo, guys!)
  • How will the growing U.S. financial crisis affect us?
  • Has anyone investigated the folks responsible for those Gate/Seinfeld commercials to see if they secretly hold Apple stock? (Just wondering.)

We ll get to see all sorts of products under development that I ll really want to tell you about but won t be able to.

We ll see really funny parody videos which we ll be unable to share but will undoubtedly be on youtube by tonight regardless.

Oh, and the meeting is hosted by Rainn Wilson, so there should be some intentional humor this year too.

But most of all, I get a morale boost that lasts for months... it s so cool to see just how many amazing world-changing things this company is working on!

Anyway, all of this is to explain why you won t see any updates from my team today, except for maybe Dana, who is based in Atlanta (we miss you, Dana!)

Gotta go!