Friday, September 30, 2005
Catching up from the Summit
I'm sitting in the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, waiting for this morning's sessions to get started. It has been a whirlwind of information...and lots of fun here...as expected. Most of the Visual FoxPro MVPs are here and we were with the Fox team last night at the Prodcut Team dinner.
So...catching up a bit...
Things started Friday night with dinner at Qwest Field with an America's dinner. The MVPs from the US, Canada, and Latin America were all together for one big shindig. Ricardo Wenger, dressed in a tux (there were some jokes about Linux), sang a couple of songs with the band. It probably won't surprise you to know that things continued afterwards at the hotel bar.
Yesterday was executive day. Steve Ballmer, Kevin Johnson, Jim Allchin spoke and then we split up into groups. All the developer MVPs then heard from Soma. Don Box followed with a presentation on WinFx. Then it was time for dinner with Product Groups.
Nothing really big was announced, but it was interesting to get some information on how Microsoft will be taking on Google, Yahoo!, and others. I can't give out too much because of NDA, but I really think I was right on last week when I blogged, Don't Count Out Boys from Redmond.
We're meeting with the Fox team this afternoon to hear about Sedna. As WinFx is big time on my radar right now, I'm really interested to hear how the plans have been shaping up since DevCon in June. I'll report what I can.
So...catching up a bit...
Things started Friday night with dinner at Qwest Field with an America's dinner. The MVPs from the US, Canada, and Latin America were all together for one big shindig. Ricardo Wenger, dressed in a tux (there were some jokes about Linux), sang a couple of songs with the band. It probably won't surprise you to know that things continued afterwards at the hotel bar.
Yesterday was executive day. Steve Ballmer, Kevin Johnson, Jim Allchin spoke and then we split up into groups. All the developer MVPs then heard from Soma. Don Box followed with a presentation on WinFx. Then it was time for dinner with Product Groups.
Nothing really big was announced, but it was interesting to get some information on how Microsoft will be taking on Google, Yahoo!, and others. I can't give out too much because of NDA, but I really think I was right on last week when I blogged, Don't Count Out Boys from Redmond.
We're meeting with the Fox team this afternoon to hear about Sedna. As WinFx is big time on my radar right now, I'm really interested to hear how the plans have been shaping up since DevCon in June. I'll report what I can.
// posted by Craig Berntson @ 8:38:00 AM 
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