Microsoft After Hours

I recently attended the Microsoft After Hours seminar in London. I wasn’t sure what to expect but the emphasis was on fun ways to interact with technology.They covered Microsoft’s Live products, I have to admit that the Live branding kind of gets on my nerves “its Live” as apposed to? Anyway… I have to say Microsoft really have an impressive array of services that are free for you to use some of which inlcude MESH, Photosynth, Maps, Skydrive and Mail. I have to admit I use Google Apps but hey! You have a choice. We were also lucky enough to get a sneak peak at the new XBOX 360 Dashboard which looks good and it comes out today for the lucky people who manage to get hold of the download.

The guys also went into areas of home automation which have to admit is a subject that gets me very excited the talk even covered robots! One of the guys even has his own robot…. just make sure that Sarah Conner doesn’t find it.

They also demo’ed the PDC build of Windows 7.0 on an Acer Aspire One and it looked as though it was running really well with a decent rating of about 3 if I remember correctly.

The main thing that I came away with though from the evening was a good feeling about Microsoft it was nice to see people so enthusiastic about the jobs and embracing technology. Its inspired me to look into .NET and maybe even try and get into the XNA scence.

Now where can I get those “I’m a PC” stickers from?