Tech-Ed: Hot News from Atlanta

I wasn't there, but some of our fearless 1105 counterparts on the east coast did manage to fly out (and make it back home safely, as of this posting) and blanket the event like William T. Sherman. And they did awesome job as usual with their reportage.

Last year was a one-note conference (Windows 7, Windows 7, Windows 7!). and this year might feel the same way, with the cloud ringing louder than anything else. But the cloud is not one product and Microsoft has lots going on up there. So, I've taken the liberty of rounding up all the news from our 1105 properties into this handy dandy blog post:

• Microsoft To Add Cloud Licenses to Enterprise Agreements
• Microsoft's Next Generation of Datacenters To Be Leaner, Greener
• Quest Readies Azure Admin Tools
• Idera Keeps Things Simple in Competition with Microsoft
• Windows 7 Migration Masters Are Ready When You Are
• Thin Clients Doing Well in Lean Times for HP
• Looking for Azure? It's Everywhere
• Tech-Ed Analysis: Low-Key But Not Uninteresting
• Hyper-V Gets CentOS Support for Better Windows/Linux Interop
• Windows Azure Cloud, Devices Kick Off Tech-Ed
• SharePoint 2010, Office 2010 Service Packs Slated for June Release
• Enhanced Virtualization Hardware Support Comes to Exchange 2010
• Exchange 2010 SP2 Features Outlined at Tech-Ed
• Windows 7 Migration Wave Hits Vendors
• ScriptLogic Aims for Ease with Security Explorer 8.0
• Tech-Ed 2011 News Wrap-Up: Windows Phone 7, Cloud, Office, Exchange, Much More
• Microsoft Touting Energy-Efficient Data Centers at Tech-Ed
• Kemp Technologies Talks Virtual LoadMaster Exchange for Hyper-V

Even though Tech-Ed mainly caters to the IT crowd, the show had no shortage of developer-related news:

• Details Scarce on Visual Studio and Windows Updates
• Infragistics Releases Component CTPs
• Microsoft Previews Visual Studio vNext at Tech-Ed Keynote
• Tech-Ed Keynote Highlights Windows Phone 7
• Telerik Previews JustTrace and JustDecompile Tools
• Private Runtime Intelligence Service Caters to Demanding Environments
• Tech-Ed 2011: Wide-Open Road at 55 MPH

I think that's it. After reading all of these reports and from other newsers online, I felt like this Tech-Ed was more a feel-good, let's-re-energize-our-community show, one that said, "Look at us, world! We're Microsoft and we're still relevant!" I hope so.

[Editor's Note: We removed the link to the article regarding VB6 being open sourced; since this posting, that news was retracted.]

Posted by Michael Domingo on 05/19/2011 at 11:59 AM