What did you think of WinHEC?

First, it was great to meet some of you who are reading my blog in person.  It's always nice to have faces behind the names.

For those of you attended WinHEC, what did you think?  Did you learn some interesting things or was it a waste of time or somewhere in the middle?  For me and the KMDF team, it was a mellow WinHEC.  We didn't have any presentations this year, just our 4 hour lab on Wednesday which was full the entire time.  Outside of that, I just talked to folks on the floor and at "Ask the Experts."  I didn't get a real feel for the rest of the conference, so how was it?  What did you like?  What did you not like (outside of the food :) )? What was missing that you wish was there?

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Comments

• Anonymous
  May 30, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 01, 2006
  The balance between a session and a lab is a fine one.  Every year we struggle to figure out what people want for the 2 of them.  Also, once we decide on the amount of lab time, it is hard to gauge if it should be instructor led or self taught.  Different folks want different things and it is sometimes hard to find the sweet spot ;).  I am glad you enjoyed WinHEC this year.  
  
  I am somewhat sad that there was no DDC this year in terms of just focusing in on the driver developers (vs the broader audience that attends WinHEC), but the additional conference (even if it runs at the same time) requires alot more work from us and we could not afford that time this year (although this was not the only reason DDC was not scheduled this year).