Microsoft Tech Ed 2009 - Making the Worst the Best

If you listened to many of the discussions in the hallways of the LA Convention center during TechEd 2009, you quickly realize that many of the conversations are not on the typical buzz of newly released technologies or cool new technical insights learned in sessions. Rather, the discussions are on trivial things such as the lack of snacks and the number of attendees. Generally the buzz at a Tech Ed, or a other large Microsoft show, is on the cool new announcements or on what is happening with technologies.

There were a lot of things about this year's Tech Ed that were odd. If ranked against Tech Eds of years past, these things would take the lowest spots - as in being the worst. In addition to few things being announced, lunch was served in a parking garage on paper plates, the snacks were missing throughout the day, ice cream ran out before the lines did, and going to the company store required knowing which side hallway it was hidden within. These were just some of the things buzzed about in the hallways.

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