An MS executive I\u2019ve never heard of (Stephen Elop) is speaking.\u00a0 2 things are keeping me from attending.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve managed to get access to one of the way too rare power sockets so I\u2019m doing some work.<\/p>\n
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*This is posted after the event ended*<\/p>\n
Screw it \u2013 I came down 10 minutes after the session started.\u00a0 I expected to not find a seat.\u00a0 Boy, was I wrong.\u00a0 People were leaving the room in their droves.\u00a0 There was a conversation going on between a bunch of executives on the stage that was BORING!\u00a0 It was out of touch with the technical audience and felt very scripted and rehearsed.\u00a0 I walked in and got a seat within 10 seconds.\u00a0 My biggest problem was stepping by the crowds leaving.<\/p>\n
As I type this I can\u2019t hear the stage over the sound of people leaving.\u00a0 I am not exaggerating.\u00a0 This session is worse than the Visual Studio one at TechEd in 2005.\u00a0 Whoever planned this one really didn\u2019t think of the non-executives.<\/p>\n
I wonder why there\u2019s no wifi here.\u00a0 I can\u2019t tweet anything from the venue.\u00a0 Plenty of peer-to-peer wifi honeypots in this room though \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It\u2019s always the same at TechEd.<\/p>\n
Stephen Elop starts talking about Windows 7.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how bad he thinks MS subsidiaries have been but he\u2019s telling us stuff we\u2019ve known for a year at this point.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019m not alone because people are still leaving by huge amounts.\u00a0 Last time I saw this sort of departure was at a DSI talk by an MS executive in the USA who couldn\u2019t speak English.\u00a0 This talk is going down like a dead balloon.\u00a0 It\u2019s high level marketing speak for the wrong audience.\u00a0 I wonder if people can see this exodus on the live feed?<\/p>\n
I also suspect that having the keynote late in the day on the 20th anniversary of the \u201cfall of the wall\u201d was a very bad idea.\u00a0 Sure, it gets the USA online audience but at the cost of the local audience.\u00a0 Every session I\u2019ve gone to so far has been full or near full with high attendee retention.\u00a0 This keynote has played a bum note for a lot of people.<\/p>\n
Exchange 2010 Launch<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Now we get the Exchange 2010 demo.\u00a0 They\u2019ve done a demo of a live mailbox migration in front of \u201c7000\u201d (minus the 1000 that has left so far) people.\u00a0 Conversation threads, mobile, OWA all demonstrated.\u00a0 UC presence awareness is shown in OWA.\u00a0 Transport protection rules are shown.\u00a0 Elop is using Firefox for his OWA part of the demo.\u00a0 The local audience applauds with laughter.\u00a0 <\/p>\n You know what?\u00a0 I think Patrick in MS Ireland got a lot more done on Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 in his half hour during the community launch tour than these folks did.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not on the right drugs.\u00a0 There\u2019s a video of a dude playing with a man in a Fox suit.\u00a0 What the hell is that supposed to be?<\/p>\n ForeFront <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Exchange 2010 is not the only launch today.\u00a0 ForeFront is being launched as well \u2013 that\u2019s logical.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all he has to say on that!\u00a0 I feel for any of the product teams who are here.\u00a0 They will have worked hard for 2-3 years to get a one liner for their launch.<\/p>\n Windows Server<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The launch was done on October 22nd.\u00a0 72% of global servers run Windows Server of some sort.\u00a0 Hyper-V and Live Migration get a plug, along with System Center.\u00a0 Out they roll Continental Airlines once again.<\/p>\n People still leaving.\u00a0 I think they should have had 3 launch events: IT Pro, Executive and Developer.\u00a0 The 3 audiences have different needs.<\/p>\n Robert Wahbe (corporate VP on Server) now talks.\u00a0 To be honest, most of us will probably have heard most of this already.<\/p>\n Some claims about time savings and power savings are made.\u00a0 Naturally, these are all company dependent.\u00a0 For example.\u00a0 If a physical machine consumes 30% of a Quad Xeon on a dedicated physical machine then it will consume slightly more than 15% of CPU on a dual quad core Hyper-V host.\u00a0 There are no magic savings beyond what your company needs.<\/p>\n Jeff Wettlaufer is up now after the marketing speak.\u00a0 <\/p>\n \u2026<\/p>\n I\u2019ve had enough.\u00a0 I\u2019m outta here.\u00a0 I met up with Alex Yushchenko outside.\u00a0 It was agreed; the keynote was dreadful.\u00a0 The flow of people leaving just kept growing and growing.\u00a0 I know Robert Wahbe did a double take at one point when he saw the queue of people trying to get out the single doorway.<\/p>\n The keynote was inappropriate for this audience.\u00a0 They\u2019re techies who don\u2019t respond to marketing presentations.\u00a0 50% of them were devs who got nothing from the session.\u00a0 In fact, the European devs miss out because all the Azure stuff (and probably VS 2010) happens at PDC next week in the USA.\u00a0 The IT Pro\u2019s were bored.\u00a0 Executives don\u2019t come to TechEd.\u00a0 Timing wise, TechEd Europe is late in the year.\u00a0 All the big stuff is done by now, e.g. Win7 and Server 2008 R2 announcements were in 2008 in Barcelona and TechEd USA in the Spring.\u00a0 MS needs to think again before repeating this mistake.<\/p>\n I still look forward to the technical sessions during the rest of the week.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a pity the keynote couldn\u2019t have been a better use of the 2-3 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An MS executive I\u2019ve never heard of (Stephen Elop) is speaking.\u00a0 2 things are keeping me from attending. 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