Analysis from Microsoft TechEd 2009 – Take 1
Well I am here at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia and am hoping to grab some valuable insights over the next few days for those interested in the comings and goings of Microsoft in the Asia Pacific region.
One of the keynotes introduced a gentleman dressed in the "I'm a PC" clothes from the famous Apple Mac advertising campaigns. He ripped them off, stating that he likes being a PC – that it is exciting to be a PC (thankfully he had another set of clothes on underneath!). It was quite a stunt, designed to generate excitement around the PC platform. I decided that I would tweet about it. I was not so excited to be a PC when I finally got my tweet typed and sent about 20 mins later after my WinXP laptop had booted up… The irony was not lost on me.
The first non-plenary session I attended was on Oslo – the "SOA enabler" from Microsoft. While the session got too technical too quickly (as they all do at TechEd – although I appreciate I am not the target audience for this event), it was interesting to notice that the room was full to bursting. SOA would appear to be alive and kicking in the MS community in Australia (well – at least interest levels are!).