We had 5,212 customers, partners, journalist and speakers in Orlando, FL at the TechEd North America Developers 2008 conference. This is twice what we had last year.
This year, at Tech·Ed Developers, there are 16 technical tracks that span more than 615 learning opportunities and cover the latest Microsoft technologies.
WANNA SEE?
Are you missing it? Well next year, if you’re one of my customers give me a ping and I’ll see if I can’t discount you. In the meantime, you can view Bill Gates’ keynote, along with other presentations highlighting the futures for the developer platform, at:
http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/
TECHED BLOGGERS!
We also made available a place for bloggers to register their blogs where they write about TechEd Developer 2008. People about their experience at TechEd and have their articles highlighted on the front page.
http://techedbloggers.net/
HOT PRESS TOPICS
Besides talking about how this was Bill Gates final keynote address, the Beta 2 release of Silverlight 2 generated the most chatter in the press, followed by Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, “Oslo”, and “Velocity”. Microsoft’s partnership with IBM on DB2 integration generated a decent amount of coverage, as did the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services & the Microsoft Sync Framework.
The photo you see to the right is a picture of the Ballmer-bot. A robot programmed with the Microsoft Robotics Studio to represent our CEO/President, Steve Ballmer.
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