Teched - Ballmer's Keynote

OK. It's late, I'm tired, but it's the time to say something about TechEd.

The Ballmer keynote wasn't very interesting for me. The 'developers developers developers' motto was not present. I can understand it as TechEd is not a developers-only conference, but it was quite boring.

A couple of years ago I made TechEd and JavaOne in a row, and it was fun to see how in JavaOne's keynotes they spent time talking about Microsoft, and in TechEd's keynotes, they barely mentioned the competition. This one was different. It started with some ironic comments about Apple and Google, and MS competitors were mentioned several times during the keynote. The same happened in Paul Flessner's one, but not as often.

Another fun thing was to see that the code name for the next Office version is '12'. There was a time where the version number was 12 and the code name was 'aweirdname', but now it's the other way around.