This is the very first technical summit I've ever attended. Indeed learnt a lot both technically and personally. It went for 3 days from 13th May to 15th May 2009. Highlight for the summit is none other than Mr.Steve Balmer, CEO, Microsoft. After his talk, he's Invited for few questions and many folks asked him beautiful questions and got awesome answers back. Steve's answer for a question, "lesson he learnt and impact on Microsoft from recession? " was really interesting, he answered as, Its very sad that it's happened and happy that it'nt happen again in my life time and he's given a justification, why it'nt happen again in his life time based up on the statistics of occurrences of previous recessions, which made clear that it'd happen only once in any one's life time.
I also thought of asking few questions which includes,As Microsoft goes on moulding it's products and technology in this fashion, Developers are becoming more like designers with few customizations, so how far it's interesting for the developers across the world to work on MS technologies as they do not have to use their brains while working, which in my opinion being a developer is not at all happy really.
These days Microsoft is releasing it's products like any thing with in no time. Before setting up to learn new technology or version another technology or version is coming up, just to compete with the rest of the world and nothing else.
When I started my IT career in 2006, I started up with Microsoft .Net technology with Framework 2.0,language C# 2.0 and MS Visual Studio 2005 and now with in the 3 years of time span another two version have been released(though VS2010 and c# 4.0 are in their beta versions), where technology is changed drastically,If not hype, I can say there is no comparison b/w 3.0(,later versions) and earlier versions of .Net.
One of my friend Sultan, also raised a really very interesting question, how about making Microsoft product and technologies open source?, Of course due to some reason or other we've not shoot these questions at Mr.Steve(May be scared...;)).
And one more interesting thing is, Microsoft also entered into Cloud computing with Windows azure services to compete the big giant like Amazon, Google and Yahoo(is also coming up with cloud computing, which is collaborated with IIIT, Hyderabad, for research operations). At Tech-Ed, Venkat, Jani and Saran's sessions on cloud computing and azure services were really fruitful for me, atleast I came to know what cloud computing is though I firstly familiarized with Cloud Computing by Jani's presentation, exclusively for Satyamites.
One more highlight at Tech-Ed was, "free certifications", though I dint utilize them properly having failed in 2 exams which I had taken, after all I was not prepared and also not taken the advantage of dumps(by virtue I am kinda against at).But I am still happy, because at least I made an attempt and scored 550 and 578 and made my mind working at least for 3 hours.
Finally, Tech-Ed is not tech savy, :), It has got fun in the form of AGNEE, the rock brand with superb composition of "zeeley baby...shift-delete kardey"(forgive me for the bad lyrics , but this is what I remember) and a rocking concert on the last day to farewell the Tech-Ed.
Tech-Ed has really taught me lot of lessons, at times I felt regretted, nervous for not being either among Speakers, Microsoft family or MVP community and other times I was really happy, at least it happened to meet few great personalities and I developed a burning desire to become an MVP at least down the line 1 year, to become the good speaker and to join either Microsoft or Google or Amazon or Yahoo subsequently and I wish I could join in the very near future. Once again thanks to Microsoft and Tech-Ed team.
Disclaimer: If something looks as criticizing Microsoft or Some one else, then its purely incidental and nothing intentional.
