Dearest Microsoft

(I jumped on a sweepstakes to go to NECC from Microsoft. Sure it's in driving distance, but in these troubled economic times even the gas money is dear.)

Microsoft, it was you who brought me into the technofold by showing me the wonders of PowerPoint and Word. It's you whom I spend my days trying to get kids to be happy and comfortable with you.

And it's you and your great applications that keep me from jumping on the Apple bandwagon with it's promises of educational ease and no worries.

Could you do more for me? Probably. You are really putting forth an effort to reach teachers and I applaud you for it.

If I were to ask one thing of you, it would be to help me teach the little ones, the children still trying to wrap their fingers around a mouse. You have a lot of great apps for high school and college age students, but I want my primary kids to be able to comfortably use the tools you gave us and have the tools grow with the kids. I want them to be able to use them for creativity that will enable them to be the next movers and shakers of the world. That's it.