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May 25, 2004 | Comments: (0)

A return to reality at Tech Ed

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After wearing out the hype machine trumpeting its distant technologies such as Longhorn and Yukon, at this year's Tech Ed Microsoft has deliberately turned its focus to today's real-life business problems faced by its customers. Most of the news rolled out here has a clear focus on solving pressing IT problems in the here and now: the integration challenge taken up by its Windows Server System Common Engineering Roadmap, better collaboration and productivity through Visual Studio 2005 Team System, Web Services Enhancements 2.0 for working with secure Web services, and spam relief for all Exchange 2003 users with the availability of Intelligent Message Filter.

Signaling signs of life in high tech, the show is completely sold out. In fact, I wasn't allowed to attend the opening keynote, due to what I overheard were fire code issues stemming from the maxed out attendance. This is very unusual for a credentialed media person to be denied attending the keynote. From the way conference passes were fiercely guarded by the events staff yesterday before noon, you would have thought Jesus Christ himself was headlining the keynote. But I guess Steve Ballmer is a religious figurehead of sorts for the Microsoft faithful.

Posted by Cathleen Moore on May 25, 2004 02:03 PM

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