This year’s Tech.Ed Australia has kicked off and sessions are in full swing. The stand-out feature of this event compared with previously-run Tech.Eds is that every delegate has been issued with an HP Mini netbook running Windows 7 Ultimate RTM.
The idea behind this massive project is to give everyone a realtime, hands-on experience with Windows 7 in a massively collaborative environment. And it seems to be working. Despite the very reasonable assumption that 2500 IT-savvy delegates would already have access to portable consumer technology, the netbooks have proved to be incredibly popular, with just about every delegate busily typing away, tweeting and blogging.
Some of the key stakeholders within Microsoft Australia who made this project possible – Nick Hodge, Andrew Coates and Jorke Odolphi – kindly made a gap in their busy schedules to give me some inside information, and you can check out the full interview here.
I’m currently attending Tech.Ed as a guest of Microsoft.
