With the visit of Bill Gates to Downing street one would have thought God had arrived. Fortunately the writer of this comment isn't religious.

Tony Blair, the Labour party leader, promised to get all schools wired to the internet within a couple of years.

This is laudable, however, Labour like Tory, is failing to invest in high technology in terms of venture capital.

They seem to see it as , perhaps, dirty?

Scotland is still losing much of its high tech talent to the USA where innovation and financial risk taking on new ideas in technology are par for the course.

And of course Microsoft is well known for innovation (really?)