Key Note Session

Key points:
1. .net 4 available as of today
2. RTN application fabric is available as today for download
3. Sql 2008 R2 recently released
4. Win 2008 r2 sp1 & win 7 sp1 to be released sometime july time frame
Shipping dynamic memory and remote FX (HD quality video)
5. Cloud computing and UC
a. Comprising office 2010, sharepoint 2010, exchange 2010
b. Updates with communication 14
- More personal client view
- Improved status, mimicing more social networking tools with photo and status
- Contact card photos will be from share point
- Communicator history enabling user to jump in old threads as needed
- Better interface for soft phone
- Play VM from exchnge UM
- Ability to search for key words that will work with share point to bring up people results that related to the data. Looking up guru for certain topic for instance
- Contact cards, always present when hovering over name
- Presence is right next to photo
- 720p HD video capability for video conferencing: you can policy out IQ mode based on bandwidth availability
- Ability to share and white board docs while in a call
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6. Windows 7 phone
a. Simple interface with ‘smart cards’
b. Email flagging sync with phone
c. Integration with business systems like share point:
- Demo of pulling up a excel doc from a link, editing it, and saving it on share point
7. IE 9
a. Allows html 5, experiene is faster, and will feature graphic acceleration
8. Windows intune – desktop management tool for cloud services
a. Manage things like inventory, patching and antimalware
9. Bing MAP SDK release today
a. Bing MAP demo of incorporating movie distribution to Bing MAP

10. Business Intelligence and the cloud
a. Much improvements with Excel 2010 that enables ease of bringing data from difference sources together
- Demo: resorting a table with 100 miliion rows in matter of few seconds
- can pull data from SQL Azure and any open source type of db
- can upload and save t share point which will allow use of tools like SQL analysis – users can then quickly and easily pull reports and graphs

11. key take away message for cloud computing – scaling infrastructure based on utilization and not peak capacity. Find out more about Azure