Never touch a working presentation

Today I had a great opportunity to present about Virtual Server and Windows Server Virtualization to some of our valuable ISV partners. Once a month or so the ISV team here in Redmond invites global partners to a briefing/meeting event.

To paint a full picture, I decided to add some slides. About an hour before the event I added a few slides about "the other" Virtualization technologies of Microsoft besides Virtual PC, Virtual Server and the Hypervisor based solution we will ship within 180 days of Longhorn Server. So I borrowed a few slides from a coworkers presentation covering Terminal Server and Microsoft Softgrid. One to cover presentation virtualization and the latter to mention application virtualization.

Well, never add slides about a topic you don't know too much about. It will backfire. And it did. I don't know too much about Softgrid. My slide took me and my audience on a 20 minute excursion into relative (for me) unknown territory. 20 minutes of the 75 minutes I had for the whole talk.

So I better get up to speed on all things virtual from Microsoft. A good way to also keep you posted. :)