Today's notes on the keynote:
Eric Rudder - Tools & Servers
- Final RC for VS by the end of this week, final release by November
- Announcement: Windows Workflow Foundation
- Announcement: Microsoft Expression Acrylic (Graphic), Sparkle (Interactive), Quartz (Web)
- Announcement: Visual Studio Tools for Applications - will replace VBA
- WWF Demonstration
- Core to Windows
- Same engine also in SharePoint, Office
- Expression Product Line
- Acrylic to Design Vector and Bitmap Graphics
- Quartz for easy advanced web design
- Sparkle for XAML Visual editing
- fully integrated into VS2005, so advanced XAML forms can be defined in VS, beautified in Sparkle and re-imported into VS
- VSTA Demo
- XAML as a universal 3D format
- UGS showed that XAML can be used as a universal 3D format, since the viewer is available on every WPF desktop
- All attendees will receive a free version of SQL Server 2005 when it ships - this is the same deal as in on TechEd. Apparently Microsoft is *really * interested in people upgrasding to SQL Server 2005.
Steven Sinofsky - Office
All attendees will get Office "12" Beta 1: http://beta.microsoft.com/
Strong emphasis on Enterprise Content & Document Lifecycle Management