Thanks to Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch for “Microsoft Needs to Say No to Web 2.0”. Mary, I concur; I don't think Web 2.0 is well defined at this time; I'm not even sure it can be defined.
Now does Web 2.0 = Bubble 2.0? Umm .. I guess time will tell. In the interim, I appreciated your statement:
But just as there were some folks in the tech industry who wisely decided against trading their real, tangible jobs for spots at DrKoop.com, Kozmo.com and Pets.com, there are thousands of Microsoft employees who seem interested in building less-glamorous but more useful products like Visual Studio, Office and BizTalk Server.
That's exactly where I get to play: useful tools, used in concert to solve business challenges. I am, after all the Microsoft Pragmatic Evangelist.