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2,000 people help UK launch VS/SQL/BTS

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It's happened: The main customer launch event for the UK took place yesterday, Nov 8th. It was a fantastic day for us, with 1,500 technical people and 500 "decision makers" (CxO, IT Manager, etc), two keynotes, a host of developer and IT Pro sessions, hands-on labs, "ask the experts areas", "chalk & talk session", partner booths, executive breakfasts and lunches...it was a full day!

If you were there I'd love to hear your feedback, if you weren't you can watch the technical keynote webcast here.

Of course, the show goes on: We're in London Monday and Tuesday next week (14th, 15th), Harrogate on the 22nd and Edinburgh on Dec 7th, overall reaching about 6,000 people in the UK.

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  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2005
    Thanks for the feedback K, and really sorry to hear that you had a bad experience.
    Maybe I'm bound to say this but your comments do seem to be at odds with other feedback we've received from delegates (eg verbatim comment "The demonstration was informative and I have left the event (today) excited and invigorated in my role as a software developer").
    However that isn't meant to diminish the validity of your comments: I'll absolutely pass your comments on to the launch team, and thanks for letting us know.
    If you'd like the software pack drop me an email with your delegate details and I'll ensure you get one.
  • Anonymous
    November 10, 2005
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    November 10, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    November 10, 2005
    Stephen,
    Sorry you weren't able to get into the "writing secure code" session (despite booking), I have passed your comments re logistics to the events team so we can tighten it up for London etc.
    The session was run by my colleague Paul Maher who has just posted a blog entry -http://blogs.msdn.com/paul_maher/archive/2005/11/11/491718.aspx - that may help fill in some of the gaps.
    If you don't get the rest of the material you were expecting let me know and I'll follow it up.
    Thanks.
  • Anonymous
    November 10, 2005
    Following up on the comments by K and Stephen.

    Given that VS and SQL have been knocking around in CTP form for quite a while but had only recently been released the launch was likely to be attended by;

    1) Some folks who'd seen the stuff before and quite a lot of it.
    2) Some folks who were brand new to it as they don't do "previews" - just like I never did when I worked as a dev.

    My own view is that the event probably did ok for the people in category (2) but I'm guessing that you chaps are more in (1).

    My question then is - what should we do for you chaps at similar events in the future?

    Is it about having more depth sessions to poke around in CLR 2.0 or ADO.NET 2.0 or System.Transactions or whatever topic?

    Or...is it something else?
  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2005
    Mike. My issues were mainly with the organisation and overall presentation as opposed to the content. Looking through the list of available sessions I'd say you offered a pretty good mix.

    I felt the keynote was a bit of a mess, almost as if the presenter never spent anytime with the guys doing the demos. The main content targeted at "decision makers", the BizTalk demo targeted at experienced developers and a Web Developer demo which seemed to be aimed at 4 year-olds. It didn't flow nicely.

    In general I objected to the whole "rock music" thing - you're not releasing a new MP3 player after all.

    Thanks for asking though.