The wait is over and we have the new windows novelty: Windows Azure. It’s Microsoft’s approach to the “new” could computing.
Will continue posting about it as soon as i finish some sessions I’m attending (bt not putting too much attention thou).

Still Azure will be in Beta (CTP) stage until late 2009 possibly, but we the fortunate attendees of PDC2008 will be the first ones to get an account to test. I’ll be posting about that too (hopefully the accounts will be ready next week).

Heroes Happen Here.
That’s the new slogan for the launch of the new 2008 products.
Launch events schedule is already here, and by attending any event you’ll receive a free personal copy of all products.

 For registration go to:

http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/default.mspx

See you in San Diego’s!

It seems that project delays aren’t exclusive of real projects even contests must be “rescheduled” for completion

Dear contestant We appreciate your suscription in the “Microsoft Expression Awards 2007″ contest . We’ve heard your petitions and we decided to extend the contest’s deadline to june 22nd, 2007 giving the chance to all contestants to finish and improve satisfactorily their projects. We are aware of the complexity of the requirements to cover, as it’s stated in the terms and conditions, i). You can check them in the contest’s website: http://www.expressionawardslatam2007.com/default.asp?idioma=la We invite you to take advantage of this unique oportunity to participate and win great prizes. Don’t wait any more and start using “Expression Web” to build your project. We also remind you that we have a forum where you can post any question or comment related to this contest or the “Expression” Tools. Good luck! Luis Fuentes Visual Studio and Expression Manager Microsoft Latinoamérica

Today I went to the MSDN event ASP.NET AJAX and CardSpace in Edwards Cinema @ Mira Mesa, CA.
For my surprise, this time Anand Iyer wasn’t there, but Michele Leroux Bustamante – a very nice change IMHO- along with Lynn Langit .
As always, I was asleep in the beginning. But it was more because of Lorena that didn’t let me sleep last night (she decided that 1 AM was a very good time to ask for a bottle and play for almost an hour).
The security session was really interesting, even thou “new” from Microsoft, as usually, means it’s been existing for years. It was focused on CardSpace, the new Microsoft’s Identity Administrator.
The sections where we suposedly would see AJAX, where hurried. Given that the first section was prolonged, we didn’t have enough time for that.
This is the link for the event’s resources just in case you want to check them out:

CardSpace/AJAX Presentation resources