Microsoft ISV Innovate Day

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jethro's picture

I went to the Microsoft Innovate day for ISV (independent software vendors) yesterday.

We had a great look at a number of key new technologies in the web and application space.

Specifically, Silverlight, Azure, Expression Blend, Windows 7 and the whole concept of cloud computing.

One of the awesome new things in Windows 7 is the ability to add a VHD as a volume, and make it bootable. It will boot with only a very tiny overhead, making VHDs that require lots of RAM accessible on machines that couldn’t previously handle them. Awesome! That’s the killer app for me, but there’s also lots of eye candy – and very useful eye  candy too, the use of vector graphics makes scrolling and zooming way faster and much better. Search goes another notch higher from the already awesome offering inside Vista. Search is one of the killer apps for Vista over XP by the way.

I was able to network with the boys from Microsoft afterwards, having a drink and a chat with these fine people, Christian Longstaff, Michael Kordahi, Andrew Coates, and Doug, Joel, Bronwen and John. Was a great day – full of learning, humour and general passion for the technology and software being developed with one great purpose, to help people. And I scored 2 free t-shirts!

Here’s some pics.

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And Angus Logan poked his head in but went and hid in a cubicle.

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Bronwen Zande's picture

Great pic of my hand...its so

Great pic of my hand...its so photogenic :)