More on TechEd

OK. More on TechEd from last night. TechEd had so little for me as far as I could tell that I left Canberra just after 5:00, and I can assure you it was getting really cold. So back to Syndey, stopping off at Golbourn for some dinner… Dominos Pizza actually, and it was good. Right as I was starting to eat it I had a phone call from a friend who was proctoring at TechEd, so I let him know what I was doing.

He did not realise I was only there for an Open Day, so promised to go to the MapPoint thing this morning.

MapPoint – 12 month eval for all attendees

I ran into the MapPoint speaker at TechEd on the Microsoft stand. A guy called Steve Milroy, from Connected Innovation in the USA. Actually their WWW site is useless but they seem to have some cute MapPoint stuff. They may be my competitor or may be a supplier – not sure yet. Seems to know some of his stuff.

And as part of the release of MapPoint over here they are giving all TechEd people a 12 month Eval of MapPoint Web Services. You heard it here first – this will be released in a few hours. Now if I could only get Microsoft to give me access – I have signed up last week for any access, and have not heard back. Time to escalate back to Redmond.