Today’s Keynote Messages

Today’s notes on the keynote:

Eric Rudder – Tools & Servers

• Final RC for VS by the end of this week, final release by November
  
  
  
  • Announcement: Windows Workflow Foundation
    
  • Announcement: Microsoft Expression Acrylic (Graphic), Sparkle (Interactive), Quartz (Web)
    
  • Announcement: Visual Studio Tools for Applications – will replace VBA
  
  
• WWF Demonstration
  
  
  
  • Core to Windows
    
  • Same engine also in SharePoint, Office
  
  
• Expression Product Line
  
  
  
  • Acrylic to Design Vector and Bitmap Graphics
    
  • Quartz for easy advanced web design
    
  • Sparkle for XAML Visual editing
    
    
    
    • fully integrated into VS2005, so advanced XAML forms can be defined in VS, beautified in Sparkle and re-imported into VS
  
  
• VSTA Demo
  
  
  
  • AutoCad 2006 Demo
  
  
• XAML as a universal 3D format
  
  
  
  • UGS showed that XAML can be used as a universal 3D format, since the viewer is available on every WPF desktop
  
  
• All attendees will receive a free version of SQL Server 2005 when it ships – this is the same deal as in on TechEd. Apparently Microsoft is *really * interested in people upgrasding to SQL Server 2005.

Steven Sinofsky – Office

All attendees will get Office “12” Beta 1: http://beta.microsoft.com/ 

Strong emphasis on Enterprise Content & Document Lifecycle Management