Yesterday saw the kickoff of TechEd North America. Attendances appear to be down. I’d also hear that they had merged the IT Pro and Dev sessions. The same is being done in EMEA later this year in Berlin. That’s unfortunate because MS has the tendency to swing things towards the dev community. The old TechEd that I used to go to was definitely like that.
BTW, I just found these sessions from TecEd EMEA last year.
It looks like Windows 7 is going to RTM early as expected. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the RTM release available on TechNet and MSDN in September with the Server 2008 R2 release coming not long after.
My blogging activity is dropping significantly lately. Work is really busy. Plus I’m back on a writing project that had frozen. The “Mastering Windows Server 2008" books are back on the cards. They now will include Windows Server 2008 R2 material. My chapters require some rewriting so that’s gonna keep me busy for the next 3 or 4 months.