First look at Microsoft releases

Unlike most other vendor conferences, Microsoft's annual TechEd concentrates on the education side of things rather than marketing.

By Adam Gifford

Published in The New Zealand Herald September 2009

So the only keynote of last week's gathering at the Sky City Convention Centre was a celebration of local lad made good, Microsoft chief financial officer Chris Liddell, back in the country to deliver the corporate rahrah.

The rest was techies getting tips from uber-techies.

"Microsoft TechEds traditionally talk about established technologies, but for this one there are bunch of new technologies coming they were able to talk about," says Chris Auld from Intergen, New Zealand's largest specialist Microsoft application development shop.

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