Guy kolbis

At the press conference, Moshe Lichtman, mentioned that Microsoft sees the community and the educational field as their target and they consider them to be a very important part of the MS vision.

You know what, I actually feel exactly that. As a blogger, MS had gave me a lot in return. From the Blogger's meetings, TechEd, the meeting with Steve Ballmer at the Press conference and etc, MS got out of their way to tighten the relationship with the community.

Thanks!

I got to hand it to MS, I am really enjoying myself at the R&D Center.

I got here at around 8:30 AM, and went to the Press conference, where Steve Ballmer, Danny Yamin and Moshe Lichtman gave a small brief about the future as Microsoft sees it.

After that, we were allowed to ask questions.

If I could summaries it, I really enjoyed it. For me it was a great experience. This is my first time at a press conference. Steve is a mesmerize person with endless charisma.

One thing I had noticed was that he never uses the word "aheeeee"...He always has an answer waiting, even if he has no response, he will find a way to give a funny, yet a smart answer.

A lot of questions arose, such as:

• What about the legacy code?
• What about Yahoo?
• What about SAP?
• What about localization for Hebrew?
• What about Vista?

Seeing and experiencing Steve by myself is great. Next Steve is going to talk about Innovation. Will we see the monkey dance?

Next week I will give a session in the Israeli Army.

My session will be a hybrid of my last two sessions I gave in the DeveloperAcademy2 and TechEd2008. Basically I will be talking about performance.

If you want details on how to attend this event, please leave me a message and I will get back to you.