The fist day of sessions is at an end. Here's my recap of the events during the day...

Keynote session

Bill Gates opened up the keynote with a very nice video about his retirement. From july 1st he will focus on foundation work and will only have minor involvement in the decisions at microsoft. The video included people like G.Clooney, S.Spielberg, H.Clinton, T.Blair etc... And was great fun. Furthermore the keynote speak included demos on visual studio improvements, wpf (windows presentation foundation), silverlight and robotics. A fun detail was that SonyEricsson Xperia was on the front of the windows mobile initiative.


More on Silverlight

We attended a session on Silverlight that's ment to be cross-plattform and cross-browser. Silverlight is a flash-replacement built on top off .NET (2.0). More on this in future posts. Noticable though is that Nokia will support silverlight and then also .NET framework on Symbian.


Hands-on labs

Today I also completed a hands-on lab on Plattorm builder and WinCE that was very informative.


Windows mobile enterprise architecture

There's a new server product coming up called System Center Mobile Device Manager that will act as a gateway for mobile devices when interfacing with enterprise systems like exchange, sharepoint, biztalk etc.