Keynote

Well, the IT Pro Tech*Ed didn’t have the pizzazz of the Developer Tech*Ed from last week … we had “Bob Muglia” and they had “Bill Gates”.  That’s probably enough said.

Anyway, the keynote started off with some funky, music performed by a group dressed up in African attire.  Kinda good/neat, but a bit odd for Tech*Ed.  The keynote then focused on stuff like Identity Lifecycle Management & Virtualization.  Cool stuff on the upcoming 2008 & Hyper-V virtualization technology.  Muglia stated that they had low expectations for performance (against VMWare) with this initial product, but that tests show that it performs as good as, and in some cases better than VMWare ESX.  That sure sounds impressive, but I’m not sure exactly what the tests were and how ‘unbiased’ Muglia is.