Microsoft TechEd ITforum 2006
- Sold out event with over 4000 attendees
- Keynote – Bob Muglia:
o Introduction to Vista Look and feel. Glass effect (make sure you have enough Video Ram to run though)
o Exchange 2007
§ Patriot Act Compliant (Digital Spying enabled)
o Dynamic Systems Initiative
o Softgrid
- PowerShell goes to RTM
- Cold Food and Beer J reception evening gave me time to jump around the Exhibition stands.
o Intel VPro & Dual Core Xeon 7100 running Virtual Server 2005 R2 (wow performance and scalability)
o AMD running a DL385 G2 with Serial SCSI drives (less heat, less power consumption and reduction in size)
o Mobile Pavilion: Imate, avanade, symbol, Sybase iAnywhere.
o Server based computing: Thinprint v7.0, Ericom Software – Server Based Computing appliance, Citrix Systems – Tarpoon is coming.