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&lt;P&gt;Gianpaolo and Tim the two bad boys who will be presenting along side &lt;A class="" href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers/" modo="false" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers/"&gt;Steve Ballmer this Thursday&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;6th November at 3.30pm AEDT. The event is sold out, so make sure you &lt;A class="" href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers/" modo="false" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers/"&gt;catch it live online&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Tim will be down in&amp;nbsp;Sydney this week delivering content as part of the &lt;A class="" title="Liberation Day" href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers"&gt;Liberation Day&lt;/A&gt; (aka Steve Ballmer’s visit). You can watch it live online at the &lt;A class="" title="Liberation Day" href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers"&gt;Liberation Day&lt;/A&gt; website.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P mce_keep="true"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9032620" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/powertodevelopers/archive/tags/tim+sneath/default.aspx">tim sneath</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/powertodevelopers/archive/tags/liberation+day/default.aspx">liberation day</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/powertodevelopers/archive/tags/michael+kordahi/default.aspx">michael kordahi</category></item><item><title>Steve Ballmer's Live Web Rally - Liberation Day!</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/powertodevelopers/archive/2008/10/13/liberation-day-watch-steve-ballmer-live.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8997053</guid><dc:creator>ptdaustralia</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/powertodevelopers/comments/8997053.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/powertodevelopers/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8997053</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 36.0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"&gt;Many, if not all of us, have now heard about cloud computing, but many people do not yet know what Microsoft is doing with Client + Cloud computing. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"&gt;We’d like to invite you to join &lt;B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer&lt;/B&gt; at a unique&amp;nbsp;live Web Rally event where he’ll lay out our roadmap to the future of the&amp;nbsp;Microsoft platform. &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 14.2pt; tab-stops: 36.0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"&gt;On the Cloud side,&lt;B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt; &lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"&gt;Gianpaolo Carraro, Senior Director, Microsoft Corporation,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"&gt;will discuss Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing and how its various components come together, with a great range of demos. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 14.2pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"&gt;On the Client side, &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"&gt;Tim Sneath, Director, Microsoft Corporation&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"&gt;, will show you technologies that work hand in hand with Cloud services to liberate you to build the applications you dream of – for Windows or the Web.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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