Microsoft VP Says Googles Playing Defense With Chrome OS

Microsoft founder Bill Gates may not want to comment on Chrome OS, the just-announced operating system from Google. But Walid Abu-Hadba, the software giant's Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism, was more forthcoming tonight about his thoughts on Google's supposed threat to Windows. I spoke to Abu-Hadba at a dinner in San Francisco to promote tomorrow's launch of Silverlight 3, the latest version of Microsoft's platform for web media and applications.