Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Executive Day
Today was Microsoft Executive day at the MVP Summit. The past two years, we were at the Microsoft Conference Center on the MS campus. There are now too many MVPs, so today we were at the Washington Convention Center in downtown Seattle. The day started with Lori Moore, Corporate Vice President of Product Support Services. Since the MVP program comes out of PSS, she is our host. She gave us some interesting information on the Summit. For example, they used more than two miles of lanyards.
Eric Rudder, Senior Vice President of Servers and Tools was next. Eric was the main design guy behind VFP 3.0 and is now in charge of development tools and servers. He announced Channel 9. The first issue includes video of yag and Ken Levy.
Jim Allchin, Group Vice President of the Platforms Group was up next and showed off some interesting stuff that will be coming up in the next couple of years.
After lunch, we heard from Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer. All I can say is "blah, blah, blah".
Rich Kaplan, Corporate Vice President Content Delivery and Delivery Group followed. He's in charge of Microsoft.com, MSDN, Technet, and other online properties.
Lori Moore then came back and again said "thanks" for all the MVPs do.
The evening's activities were back at Microsoft. They had dinner and yummy desserts. The entertainment consisted of XBox games, karaoke, open mike night, an improv comedy troupe, and more.
Tomorrow, I'm with the Fox team all day to get some in depth info on VFP 9.0
So, you may be wondering why I'm not giving you more information on what we were told. It's simple...we're under NDA. I can't talk about it unless it's public. The press has been here, so you may find some information on news sites such as news.com or eweek.com.
Eric Rudder, Senior Vice President of Servers and Tools was next. Eric was the main design guy behind VFP 3.0 and is now in charge of development tools and servers. He announced Channel 9. The first issue includes video of yag and Ken Levy.
Jim Allchin, Group Vice President of the Platforms Group was up next and showed off some interesting stuff that will be coming up in the next couple of years.
After lunch, we heard from Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer. All I can say is "blah, blah, blah".
Rich Kaplan, Corporate Vice President Content Delivery and Delivery Group followed. He's in charge of Microsoft.com, MSDN, Technet, and other online properties.
Lori Moore then came back and again said "thanks" for all the MVPs do.
The evening's activities were back at Microsoft. They had dinner and yummy desserts. The entertainment consisted of XBox games, karaoke, open mike night, an improv comedy troupe, and more.
Tomorrow, I'm with the Fox team all day to get some in depth info on VFP 9.0
So, you may be wondering why I'm not giving you more information on what we were told. It's simple...we're under NDA. I can't talk about it unless it's public. The press has been here, so you may find some information on news sites such as news.com or eweek.com.
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