Veteran Microsoft watchers will remember Brad Silverberg, the former Microsoft exec who championed Internet Explorer and Windows 95. Professional services firm The Milestone Group is featuring an interesting Q&A with Silverberg in the latest issue of The Milestone Quarterly. Silverberg relates his perceptions of his former employer, as well as the strategies of his current one (Ignition Partners, a VC firm staffed by quite a few former Microsoft executives). One excerpt: When asked about open source pressures on Microsoft, Silverberg said, "They are struggling with not so much open source, per se, but rather they are no longer the low price solution." The rest is worth a read.