Wow, what a long day. Rushed through breakfast and hiked the quarter mile stretch to the keynote room (or at least it felt that far away). Found a decent seat for the keynote. The talks were primarily by Bill Gates and Jim Allchin. While listening to Gates was interesting, it wasn’t as good as the Vista/Office 12 demo that another Microsoft employee gave during the keynote (his name was Chris something, but I didn’t write that down).
I attended the BOF (Birds of a Feather) session on Entlib tonight. I had plans to go to another BOF session that was before the Entlib one, but I got there late because I was eating and once I got in it just didn’t capture my attention.
The EntLib discussion was pretty decent. There was a developer from Avanade that help write the EntLib 1.0 stuff as the moderator. He pretty much just opened the floor up for comments and questions.
The pre-con sessions started about 10 this morning and got out around 5:45 pm or so. There was a break for lunch, and then another one for the afternoon. I started to blog a bit at lunch for a “first impressions” of the session, but the power went out in much of Los Angeles (or so we are told) and the network link went down. Power was out about thirty minutes or so, and luckily happened during the end of the lunch time period so it didn’t cut into the sessions much.