Went to Microsoft's Tech-Ed last week... It was a little mind blowing. I've never been to a Tech-Ed before... and I'm not a MSZombie, I'm an script-kiddie (Perl, PHP, JS), so I came out of it with a different perspective.
Overall, the conference was good... the buffet food sucked, but the information was good. I can see the direction Microsoft is heading with it's Flash killer. At first glance, it's very powerful & simple, but in the back of my mind, I wonder if it's as easy to build a media-rich web-site as some of the demos were... It probably is, and that XML-rich simplicity might kill Flash with it's ActionScript. And being able to control the page DOM from QuickSilver, I shudder to think about how much terribly designed MSZombie pages will pop up of the next few years. :)
I talked with one of the MS techs about their VOIP product... deeply integrated with Exchange, but the concept is cool. He should me their phone... it had a touch screen, standard touch pad, but a few extra buttons, a finger print scanner, & a iPod looking wheel. The whole thing was chunky, almost like a prototype phone -- very ugly. It too was integrated with Exchange, running Windows CE on the touch pad... it was laughable, looked hurried to market. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Apple has something similar in the works.
The session in IronPython was very interesting. Very powerful, integrated with .Net. I might have to buy a copy of VisualStudio and play around with it.
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No need to buy a copy of Visual Studio to play with IronPython. You can create IronPython code with any text editor! There are also free Python IDEs (SPE is my favourite free one, Wing my favourite commercial one.)
The IronPython cookbook has some good examples of using the .NET framework classes from IronPython - including embedding the IronPython engine in C#, which can be done from Visual Studio express.
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