The show is off to a great start with one more day remaining. The booth has been extremely busy and we are getting good feedback from the NAC partners in our internal booth partner pavilion about the quality of dialog and interest from the folks milling about. The 'Interoperability by Design' message is resonating with customers and we are getting great questions and feedback as well. In my breakout presentation today I also bad the opportunity to meet several customers, and answer along with Jason Matusow and Brent Philips, several insightful questions about our strategy, commitment and plans.

Brent listening to customers Calm before the storm Monday afternoon MS booth theatre

This morning Bob Muglia delivered his keynote speech, outlining Microsoft's interoperability focus and strategy to date. Bob's delivery was superb and it was great to see the standing room only crowd react positively to the message and the news of the day.

Bob Muglia's morning keynote

Today's announcements were focused primarily on interoperability in the identity metasystem including 4 new open source projects being sponsored by Microsoft to help developers enable information card support in their web applications. The press release outlines the project objective: "These projects will implement software for specifying the Web site's security policy and accepting information cards in Java for Sun Java System Web Servers or Apache Tomcat or IBM's WebSphere Application Server, Ruby on Rails, and PHP for the Apache Web server. An additional project will implement a C Library that may be used generically for any Web site or service."