at the may  io developers conference in san francisco page delivered a keynote address and said that "were at maybe  of what is possible despite the faster change were still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have i think a lot of that is because of the negativity every story i read is google vs someone else thats boring we should be focusing on building the things that dont exist" and that he was "sad the web isnt advancing as fast as it should be" citing a perceived focus on negativity and zero sum games among some in the technology sector as a cause for that in response to an audience question page noted an issue that google had been experiencing with microsoft whereby the latter made its outlook program interoperable with google but did not allow for backward compatibility—he referred to microsofts practice as "milking off" during the question-and-answer section of his keynote page expressed interest in burning man which brin had previously praised—it was a motivating factor for the latter during schmidts hiring process as brin liked that schmidt had attended the week-long annual event