WWPC Day 1

What an awesome day. I am going back to do the parties in a few minutes but here are a few shots to let you feel like you were here. Welcome!

Forefont chokes aliens with some white text on the side. Brilliant. Microsoft Marketing dollars at work.

Big place, lots of people. They definitely made meals better this year.

KeynoZzzZzzzZzzzZzzz… Actually, they were pretty good. No lamers on guitars.

Tweeetie bird lounge, SBSC central.

Molson?

And the biggest, most important, this is why you pay $1,800 for the ticket slide of WWPC:

Click on the image to download the bigger version if you can’t make out the text. I’ll give you my take on it after WWPC has closed up and I still have the same feelings but the above is essentially where Microsoft is going with their computer strategy. Look at that long and hard, I often get these “told you so” moments years after the announcements were made, usually from people with the inability to see the roadmap more than a year down the road.

Microsoft made the announcement today. 1–3 years out, when this becomes reality… I dunno.