Yeah... I've been busy again :) But hey, it's not my fault people like me so much they can't stay away from me =)) Luckily, it's weekend (again!) so now I have a few minutes to publish this :D So, here we go - Bruxelles, mon amour! "Deux euros, deux euros, deux euros, deux euros, deux euros!" Imagine, if you will, this said on fast-forward by a loud, shouting voice. Now, imagine another one - it might be the same number, it might be "un euro" or "trois euros"... Overlap the two voices in your mind; now repeat the process a few times, until you get a deafening tremble of voices calling you to them, to buy their stuff for the lowest possible price, while you make your way through literally hundreds of people trying not to bump into anybody (and failing miserably every 30 seconds);  you might just get some sense of how the Brussels market looks like on a chilly Sunday morning of November 14th... The first thing you notice about Brussels is the crowd. People from all around the world, speaking tens of different languages, coming together in a city of one million souls designed for probably a little over two thirds of that. According to Wikipedia, almost 36% of its inhabitant

They're neither "the devil", nor some monopoly, they're not propcupied with taking over the world and also not in the business of "technological copy/paste". Because, let's be honest, that is what people currently think about Microsoft... Well, short piece of reality coming up :) for the past week, Microsoft was our host for a Strategic Meeting concernign the MyAIESEC.net platform (a bit more about our meeting in a future post). One of this week's highlights was a great opportunity to get a tour of their "Executive Briefing Center for European Innovation", to get up to speed with some of their latest technologies and plans, and, perhaps most important, to get in touch with some of the flesh-and-blood people behind the brand. The word of the week (and month, year and possibly decade to come) at Microsoft is EDUCATION . Because, unlike most mainstream companies, Microsoft understood two things: investing in education is investing in the future, and educating people to use your software insures you a steady and savvy base of clients - the kind of clients any company would like to have. Their virtual classrooms and online learning tools are, in all fairness, far ahead anything