Bob Muglia kicked off the TechEd keynote this morning with a Back to the Future spoof featuring Christopher Lloyd. Very fun. Great piece of self-deprecating humor around Hailstorm and how misguided that effort was.
Loved the Windows Server 2008, Viridian, System Center VMM demos. Looks really sharp and gives me some hope they may start gaining on VMWare at some point.
The Jamie Cool SilverLight demo was a mediocre at best rehash of what was shown at Mix.
The Brian Goldfarb VSTO demo was interesting only for the possibilities it represented, it was mostly eye candy and didn’t communicate much other than the possibilities…
The Michael Woods BizTalk.NET demo was incomprehensible. He wanted to talk about BizTalk.NET but again mainly eye candy instead of actually explaining how or why.
The DSI demo was fairly cool. It got me interested based on the value proposition however it didn’t really help me understand what I need as a developer to play in that space.
Finally in closing I have found out that the Orange County Convention Center is Pepsi-Hell. In their infinite wisdom it appears that someone thought it was a good idea to only serve Pepsi products. I have cut down my Diet Coke consumption over the years but it is still my favorite carrier for caffeine.