Well, that's it...TechReady1 is at an end, as with all conferences there were some high and low points (usual lows, level of content...length of sessions etc). The highs were pretty good though!
C# 3.0 is just looking amazing - you'll just love this stuff when you see it at the PDC; there have been some *sneaks* which may or may not be true and I guess there will be some controversy about some of the new stuff...but I just love it! Seeing Anders Hejlserg's presentation and Chalk Talk you can tell how excited he is about this stuff too...just get your butt to the PDC!
A lot of thought is going into the whole smart client / occasionally connected scenarios - this is going to be a big area for the future and some of the stuff that's planned is pretty cool (new Whitepapers on this stuff are due soonish...).
Some great keynotes - lots of stuff I can't talk about yet (it kills me to say that...working for Microsoft is a two-edged sword!) some great stuff coming in Vista and Office as well as some great stuff for Enterprise customers certainly looks like it's going to be an interesting year ahead! Oh, I have a video snippet of Jim Allchin playing guitar today...hope I grow up to be just like him ;-)
Well, I'm off to try and get a machine loaded up with C# 3.0,Vista Beta 1, VS.NET 2005, SQL Server 2005, Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon) and BizTalk 2006...wish me luck :-P (actually...pretty sure this is totally impossible right now...just in case you were wondering...)