I arrived bright and early this morning for the New York City Launch of Windows Vista, Office System 2007 and Exchange 2007 at 7:56 AM, but a thousand New Yorkers were there ahead of me! The sign-in system and temporary work staff were overwhelmed.
At 8:48 Steve Ballmer himself walked by me on his way up to his Keynote, soon after that they told everyone to go on in to the Keynote and register afterwards.
I found the overflow room with two giant screens and settled down to watch the show.
Steve did what Steve does best, but then our own Joes Thomas came on stage and gave a fantastic demo of Office 2007. Then Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO said he’d like to ask his buddy Rob Jackson out to tell us more about security in Windows Vista. Rob did the MSDN talks in the NY metropolitan area for years and now he’s breezing through Keynotes with Steve, Bill is probably calling him now for advice on programming.
It was a great day for the NY Tech community; we always have fun when we get together. No sign of Edelman PR, they say they get blogging, but there was no place for bloggers at this event.