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October 2008 - Posts

Parting Thoughts - PDC #5

Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:30 PM by scottwy
The final PDC session has just finished and the event comes to an end. There's thousands of people heading to the airport - hopefully with their heads full of ideas and schemes that they will take back to their countries and organisations, where they Read More...
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PDC #4

Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:20 PM by scottwy
Thinking about the cloud So last day at PDC (Thursday) - no big announcements or showcases today. I just went to Gianpaolo Carraro's session on expanding applications to the cloud - a kind of architectural guidance talk which might contextualise cloud Read More...
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PDC #3 - MSR Keynote - Wow!

Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:43 PM by scottwy
Wow! That's all I can say. I've just come out of the Microsoft Research (MSR) keynote given by Rick Rashid at PDC where the attendees were given a tour through some incredible technology innovations. He did a pass through (full details here ): Highlighting Read More...
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Every (red)dog has his day...PDC #2

Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:09 AM by scottwy
It's been a big couple of days here at PDC where we've made some of the biggest announcements in the history of the company. There's plenty of press coverage of the release so I'll give you a high level, personal perspective: Monday 27th of October saw Read More...
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I Love LA - #1

Posted Saturday, October 25, 2008 3:21 AM by scottwy
Love these online bling badges... So we've arrived in LA. Just checked the PDC website there's been some updates and changes. The good news you'll be able to watch the keynotes live - bad news is they're on about 4.30am NZ time. Spotted a few likely looking Read More...
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NZ Customers - buy or renew MSDN subscriptions online

Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 7:50 AM by scottwy
Just in from Darryl's blog: While the rest of the world has been able to purchase and renew Visual Studio and MSDN online for some time, we have for some reason lagged behind.  But now that lag is behind us and we can now order a new subscription Read More...
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Four Days to PDC

Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 7:24 AM by scottwy
Man - I'm starting to get excited. The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) starts on Monday in LA and Mike Zeff and I are attending to host NZ press and partners. The announcements that will be made next week have been guarded pretty closely, Read More...
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Tell us what you think about Microsoft...

Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 12:27 AM by scottwy
Invitation for The Microsoft New Zealand Developers Focus Groups 2008 We want to hear from you. Tell us what you love and hate about Microsoft! Every year we use your feedback to improve our products and services. This year, in addition to the annual Read More...
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