At the end of the second day, I went to the Build Fast Web Applications with Windows Azure AppFabric Caching session. The presentation was the standard presentation of AppFabric cache, only from the Windows Azure perspective. I was glad to hear that the release will be by the end of April, because I was waiting for the release in order to test it in our HPC/Azure integration samples. Updates on the release (mainly more sizes for the cache, and ability to use datacenters outside of the US): ...
As I suspected, the keynote of the second day was better and did include information about new releases of the Windows Phone 7 OS release, Silverlight 5 beta, and Kinect SDK for Windows. Since most of the new topics where covered in Gil Fink’s blog post , I’ll just add some photo’s to complete the picture: WP7 searchable jump list: Jaime Rodriguez enthusiastic with WP7: What’s new in Silverlight 5: Kinect (this always produces the funniest photos): Kinect SDK for Windows: Silverlight and WP7 current...