1. As sad as it is to admit but:
It'd be better than Linden Labs version. In every apect except that it prolly wouldn't be available for Linux and Macs.

Posted at 5:23AM on Sep 26th 2007 by Juliet Ceres

2. Home looks... boring and a little sad. A star trek styled chatroom littered with cookie cutter hipster avatars. Which, if you like hipsters, is super.

MS does have a little experience with SL. By that, at least some of their personnel should have a better idea what makes a good experience in a world like SL over a standard game. In theory, anyway. Some of them are probably even residents. Maybe Thompson is one of them.

And is it so much of a stretch to think that MS could be entering the virtual world business? They've only got like 10 in-house studio's under the Microsoft Game Studio's umbrella, though it has been a long while since they ran anything that was multiplayer in the manner of SL.

Posted at 1:50PM on Sep 26th 2007 by Shini

3. Microsoft's way is to wait until someone else has pioneered and proven there's money to be made, and then move in. If MS goes in for VR, you can bet that the client will be Windows only and it will be bundled with some version of Windows--it worked for web browsers. The only question is whether they'll attempt to embrace and extend whatever cross-VR platform standards are developed if/when they do it.

Posted at 9:09PM on Sep 27th 2007 by Melissa Yeuxdoux