Vista/Office Launch 2007
Today I attended the business launch of Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange Server 2007 and boy am I tired! This full day information session was overwhelming with non-stop speakers, product demos, and launch fun facts (yep that was a common theme). Did you know that this is the first time since Windows95 that both Windows and Office co-launched? Don’t worry...I didn’t care either. At least they picked good music. The Blue Man Group’s songs rocked all of the presentation and served as a central theme (mostly stuff off of Audio...Rods and Cones, Opening Mandelbrot, etc). BMG is very trade show friendly and really works for presentations!
On to the event! This was the first time that I had been at a Microsoft event with the staple MS Presentation Desk. After a light breakfast (woot!), I sat in on a keynote by a Microsoft Exec who’s name escapes me. He was a really good speaker and introduced two sales guys to hype up Vista and Office. Michael Gannotti is a firecracker of a presenter blending both Emeril and Jim Kramer together for one hell of a presentation. I was impressed! After the Keynote I sat in on a very boring presentation about deploying Vista. It looks pretty cool but I’m sure glad I don’t have to deploy that sucker to my organization. Talk about a snoozer. Then it was on to lunch (woot again!) followed by the SharePoint 2007 presentation. I walked away from that one with a lot of knowledge and understanding of the product. I may have even found a way to save my company money by using Office and SharePoint to do something we pay someone else to do right now. Kudos to the presenter on that one.
Overall it was a long and tiring presentation but it was worth it. I’ve got my free copy of Office 2007 and can’t wait to download and install it! Check out some pics from the event by clicking more.
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Microsoft hosted a joint launch event for Microsoft Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 at the Toronto Congress Center earlier today.
Within Microsoft the expression eating our own dog food” is used to describe the policy of using the latest Microsoft products inside the company in an effort to test them in real-world situations.
