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I was sitting on the plane, on a flight to Seattle for this Microsoft Summit.

I was wearing a Firefox t-shirt (a subtle jab) and the guy next to me on the plane started asking me why I like Firefox. One of the reasons was:

AdBlock. I never see an online ad in my browser anymore. And we all know how painful damn online ads/popups are! Amen!

Then he replied:

Oh. I work for an online ad company

Woops!

He also said that he was on the way to "the microsoft summit". I started to wonder who was going to be at this thing? That was, until I realised that Microsoft is big enough to have another summit ;) They are having one based on advertising down the road.

This had me wondering:

• Will IE 7 have adblocking built-in? Or do they have too much pressure not too.
• Will they allow simple plugin development? If they don't then Firefox will always have an advantage

I found out that tomorrow we will have a chance to talk to some of the IE team, so it will be good to find out what is going on there.

Some first impressions of the summit:

• The car service took over an hour to show up: -1
• The room at this lodge is amazing: +5
• The people here: +1