Jul 16 2009

WPC Day 2 Summary

Tag: OtherMark Becker @ 2:38 pm

 

Ok – I have been taking notes prodigiously using my Netbook PC (I bought one for my wife – possibly - and I upgraded it to Windows :))  I have dumped these notes into this summary and am cleaning them up.  If it seems sort of scrambled that is why. Continue reading “WPC Day 2 Summary”


Jul 15 2009

WPC Day #2 – Steve Ballmer Speech

Tag: OtherPaul Hillman @ 1:48 pm

Steve was just as pumped and energetic as always.  He never seems to disappoint. 

As most of you have heard, 2010 will be one of the biggest (they keep saying THE biggest) launch of products in Microsoft’s history.  The “wave” of products being released is, in fact, quite impressive.

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Jul 14 2009

WPC Day 1 Summary and Thoughts

Tag: OtherMark Becker @ 1:38 pm

 

This has been a very exciting conference for me (and the approximately 9000 others) because we are in a “wave” year!  In fact, they had a cool video of a surfer getting towed behind a wave runner to catch a tsunami size wave – that was a metaphor for the impact of the amount of new releases coming from MS this year.

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Jul 09 2009

Whose best practices are they anyway?

Tag: OtherC/D/H Consultant @ 12:59 pm

 

We all hear the term “best practices” thrown around in the technology world, but what really does “best practices” mean? All too often vendors throw it around as if their product defined the “industry accepted best practice”. Additionally, some experts get idealistic about the best practices they put forth. For example, security specialists/experts routinely define security best practices which can be incredibly difficult to implement or follow without great expense, time, and complexity. Likewise, identity management specialists/experts (such as myself) sometimes get too hung up on idealistic concepts like “every ID must represent a person” and others.

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