Microsoft Student Partners

Always drawing a little crowd, the Microsoft Surface set up in the MSDN lounge at Tech.ED is very cool.

After playing with the touch capabilities, you could be treated to an in-chair professional massage while a demonstration of it’s ability to read the event passes and pull down information from CommNet was shown.

Basically, on the back of the passes was a small pattern of white dots. They hold about 2 bytes of data. In this case they had encoded the delegate ID. Placing the pass on the surface would then allow the device to immediately connect to CommNet and pull down the particular delegate’s personal schedule for Tech.Ed.

Luke
UWA MSP 

Wow. Just Wow.

Sporting over 3500 delegates who will participate in over 200 sessions TechEd Sydney just kicked off with an amazing KeyNote that included free runners, concept videos (hopefully widely available soon) and, of course, the keynote speech by Amit Mital, lead of the Live Mesh project.

For those who haven’t checked it out yet Live Mesh is designed to allow automatic synchronisation of files (and later settings, applications – you name it) between multiple devices.

As part of the tech demos one of the presenters “let slip” and, in a worldwide first, showed Live Mesh for mobile which automatically synced photos he was taking of the keynote with his laptop! With the promise of Mesh developer APIs in a few months (think synch across all devices, even non-Microsoft, such an iPhone or your friendly coffee maker), Mesh is definitely something to keep your eyes on.

There’s something for everyone – technical sessions on every type of Microsoft (and some, just general) technology that you can think of, break out areas to relax and play Xbox, sandpit for mucking around on live systems and food (literally everywhere). 3 days of heaven

Stay tuned for photos and more updates as we progress through the next few days!

Microsoft Tech.Ed Student Day is coming up on this Tuesday 2nd of September in Sydney!

If you are a student and haven’t already registered, go to this page and register for FREE today.

The Student Day will be comprised of two sessions and includes the launch of Dreamspark in Australia, the Microsoft program giving students free Microsoft software such as Visual Studio 2008 Professional.

WA MSPs Luke and Oren will both be at Tech.Ed so we hope to see you there!

Luke
UWA MSP 

Microsoft Tech.Ed Australia 2008 will be happening in the first week of September at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Tech.Ed is of the largest developer conferences in Australia and is a great way to learn from the experts on the latest technologies and connect with other developers.

Day 2, on Tuesday the 2nd of September will be Student Day, so check it out if you are in Sydney at that time.

More information and online registration can be found at http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched.