I had planned on going to a breakout session on managed code snap-ins for MMC, but I got an email inviting me to an informal side session on the Tablet PC instead (from someone who read my LS800 review no less). This was a pretty neat session and I really enjoyed it, but it ran a bit long and into my next session which wasn’t so nice.
There was a representative from Motion Computing there and I overheard him talking about Motion offering a “HP Trade-in” program to accept old HP tablets of a model they were discontinuing for discounts on the new Motions.
This was my first breakout session for the day after the keynote. The first few minutes were nothing really new if you had read anything on Indigo before. It served as an introduction to the concepts behind Indigo so that people would have a basis for the further sessions.
Some items of note from this session (and pardon if these are a bit random):
The attributes for DataMember and DataContract do not respect the class or member scoping identifiers.
Wow, what a long day. Rushed through breakfast and hiked the quarter mile stretch to the keynote room (or at least it felt that far away). Found a decent seat for the keynote. The talks were primarily by Bill Gates and Jim Allchin. While listening to Gates was interesting, it wasn’t as good as the Vista/Office 12 demo that another Microsoft employee gave during the keynote (his name was Chris something, but I didn’t write that down).