This week's Soapbox is a little different. At Maker Faire I got a chance to meet a lot of people that I've only known via mailing lists or their work; one of them was Paul Stoffregen from PJRC. He's the designer and developer behind the Teensy, one of my favorite USB-based microcontroller development systems. While chatting with Paul he mentioned there's something pretty big Microsoft could do for the maker community, especially now, as Microsoft is working on Windows 8.
