Friday, October 31, 2003
Office Lunch
Yup, we got lunch yesterday at the Office launch. I had a roast beef sandwich, potato salad, cookie, apple, and a chocolate mint. Beverages at the Marriott were Pepsi products (which I prefer over Coke), but there was no Mountain Dew, so I took a Sierra Mist. I made the comment about hotel people not understanding computer people. Mountain Dew was required. A hotel employee heard me and by the next break they had Mountain Dew. Kudos to the Marriott staff.
As for launch itself, it was rather ho-hum. Nothing like the Tiki torches and Survivor theme of the Windows 2003 launch. I attended the developer track and while yeah, the technology is cool, they really pushed big, enterprise solutions that sell lots of copies of Office and lots of servers. They barely mentioned the fact that you can now create a Word or Excel document with XML from your applications instead of having to do COM automation to the actual Office product. Now that's what is really cool.
We were given the normal plastic bag filled with Microsoft propaganda ... errr... marketing materials, the timed Office demo disks, etc. However, what was WAY COOL was that every attendee got a voucher for a full blown copy of Office Professional and One Note.
As for launch itself, it was rather ho-hum. Nothing like the Tiki torches and Survivor theme of the Windows 2003 launch. I attended the developer track and while yeah, the technology is cool, they really pushed big, enterprise solutions that sell lots of copies of Office and lots of servers. They barely mentioned the fact that you can now create a Word or Excel document with XML from your applications instead of having to do COM automation to the actual Office product. Now that's what is really cool.
We were given the normal plastic bag filled with Microsoft propaganda ... errr... marketing materials, the timed Office demo disks, etc. However, what was WAY COOL was that every attendee got a voucher for a full blown copy of Office Professional and One Note.
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