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This morning I was invited to attend the Microsoft Developer and IT Pro days as a guest.  It was kind of an experiment by Microsoft Benelux: they wanted to invite some influential local bloggers and I guess they couldn't find any so they asked me :-)

(They probably knew about my blog because I was at the Geek Dinner with Robert Scoble in Brussels a while ago)

I enjoyed the free Microsoft Sandwich 2007's and the free Microsoft Coffee (decaf only!  at a developer event!) and took a stroll down the hall with all the vendors.  It seemed like every other partner of them was giving away a free X-box in a competition, hehe.

I also attended a presentation about the new Office 2007.  Pretty slick, but immensely complex to set up and maintain, if you ask me.  Microsoft must also be running out of names for their different packages: Home & Student, Small Business, Basic, Standard, Professonal, Professional Plus, Enterprise... what's next?  Galaxy?  Universe?  Standard Plus and Standard Regular?  Medium Enterprise?

Personally, I'm happy the way things work at Six Apart: If you have an interesting piece of information, toss it on the wiki or on an intranet weblog.   No bother with workflow rules, tasks, rights management or any of that stuff that gets in the way of being productive.