Well, just finished my first day at TechReady...have to say, some exciting stuff about...highlights so far:

Keynote from Bill Gates...slightly disturbing video featuring him and Napoleon Dynamite...Bill dances...very disturbing...
Composite UI Application Block...if you're working with Smart Clients you'll be dumb as hell not to check that out! It's just an amazingly powerful system to allow you to build winforms clients with plug-in UI components as well as incredibly rich services...
Office 12...very pretty!
Enterprise Library - a huge leap over the previous blocks...I have been intimidated by this in the past and shied away from using it but it really seems to be very easy to use as well as really configurable (and some really cool stuff is coming up involving that system...)
Smart Clients...really seems to be the way things are moving, Microsoft ('we' I suppose ;-)) seem to be really up for delivering really nice tools for developing these apps...

Anyway, that was day one...just waiting to find out where everyone else has gone this evening...so I'll probably end up having an early night and watching commercial infested US TV (we don't seem to have the BBC in this hotel...pah!)