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Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 -- Quick Roundup

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Given how busy my July turned out to be, I'll break convention with my 2006 and 2007 posts and summarize the relevant bits at a somewhat higher level than before. Chris Caposella's keynote] 5 Big Bets for Microsoft: Search, Unified Communications, Business Intelligence, Deployment (Vista/Office/SharePoint), Microsoft On-Line Services.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: SPC 2008 -- BillG Keynote

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

His theme was "Business Productivity in the Second Digital Decade," and it contained a lot of (by now) familiar themes: technology megatrends (stock MSFT speech stuff) next wave of business products (stock Business Productivity stuff such as Enterprise Search, telephony to Unified Communications, Business INtelligence, etc.)