The 2008 tour of Tech Ed has kicked off and there is a lot of interest particularly in the Tech Ed North America keynote by Bill Gates, both for the subject matter and that this will be his last Tech Ed year before he retires. In the press release he is quoted:
“When I think back on the early days of development when we were all programming in DOS, and then take a look at what we can do now with technologies like the .NET Framework, it simply amazes me how far we’ve come,” Gates said. “I started out as a developer and that’s what I remain at heart, so I have a personal interest in the future of the field. I am confident that the path we are laying out today will serve you well into the future.”
Microsoft also made several announcements at this Orlando event, of particular interest was the technical collaboration with IBM.
An alliance with IBM that will further simplify application development for enterprise teams working in heterogeneous environments. IBM and Microsoft have agreed to work together to integrate IBM DB2 database access with Visual Studio Team System Database Edition.
The image in this post is of Bill Gates receiving a life time subscription to Xbox live for use after his retirement from a virtual Steve Ballmer embodied in a robot. Pretty niffty. I also hear that Tech Ed New Zealand was sold out in about three weeks with tickets gone by end of May, very cool.
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July 28, 2008 at 12:28 am
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