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Rounding out a solid day of excellent sessions was Australia’s favourite son Andrew Coates (OK, so I might have hyped that a little bit). Office Business Applications (OBA) will be getting increasing focus from Microsoft in the coming year and it is no wonder why.VSTO, now in its third version, allows developers to easily build functionality on top of the Office applications. With Visual...

This session was my pick of the day. Perfectly presented by Jon Barrett and Ian Palangio, the content covered an immense amount of material, complemented by excellent demos. SharePoint is of course a mammoth platform, so any session on it is only going to cover a small chunk. This sessions’s chunk was document management. Covering Document management, Records management, policies and...

I’ve decided to cover a lot of areas this year (not just Developer sessions). This includes Server and Security sessions. This session blew me away. Eric Deily gave an excellent overview of the Web Server edition of Windows Server 2008. IT Pros who’ve been following Server 2008 will be well aware of the details of course, but for me it was an eye opener. Here’s why companies...

I missed the start of the blogger’s lunch, but managed to catch the panel answering the whole Web 2.0 question. The panel: Phil Sim, Michael Platt, Darren Neimke, Jane O’Connell and Des Walsh were guided by Frank Arrigo. Highlights included hearing them each give their view of what the hell Web 2.0 is. My favourite was Phil who summarised it along the lines of ‘it is a period in...

Always entertaining, and sometimes even informative :-), Adam Cogan walked us through Visual Studio’s history, and then looked at the future of the Team editions of the product. Many of the benefits are already shipped (in part at least) via the recently released Power Tools for TFS. Team Foundation Server incorporates and builds on these. A few warrant special mention, and...

In the first session of the day I stepped into Tony Goodhew’s overview of Visual Studio 2008 (previously Orcas). The session covered VS2008 Pro (as opposed to the Team editions) and was a slick high level flight over the product. Answering the question of WHY?, Tony gave three reasons: Tools for Office 2007 and Vista Improvements for Web developers Language enhancements (especially data...

At the TechEd Technology Showcase booth tonight I was blown away by a very cool technology called SoftGrid. Microsoft acquired this recently. SoftGrid is a virtualisation technology allows applications (as opposed to operating systems) to be delivered to the desktop (ie they are never installed on the desktop – rather it is almost like they are ‘streamed’ to the desktop)...

I’ve made it to the Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) for TechEd 2007. Just back from the opening party where I caught up with a bunch of people. My initial thoughts: A great start to the event The Technology Showcase is by far the best booth (I spent half the night there) Having the Technology Showcase at the same location as the bull riding was unfortunate (because the bloke MCing the...

Yep, pretty funny (but not for the person who made it apparently)
And less than 40,000 views even though it’s been up since February – what has the world come to?
(Via Fake Steve Jobs who was recently outed)
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