I just attended a Microsoft Architect Council  about live services and Cloud Computing and I must stay that I am very impressed. A first impression it seems that Microsoft was well behind the game on the cloud computing front. The reality is that they know they have to get it right. It is easy to release a technology and fix it as it needs to be, but when you are are Microsoft you know you only get one first impression and that is they way it seems to me that the way that are going after this. David chow and fellow presenter Woody Pewit put on a great show with some of the best slides that i have seen on the subject. It seems that even at Microsoft's seemingly snails space of adoption everyone is trying to still pick up the pieces of what this all means and what it could do for me. Woody and David really get the juices flowing on what can be done with these nascent technologies.

  Here are the slides from the show

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XAMLFest - Dec. 16-18 – Mountain View, CA

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Architect Council - Dec. 18 - San Francisco, CA

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MIX 2009 - Mar. 18-20 – Las Vegas, NV

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Tech•Ed 2009 - May 11-15 – Los Angeles, CA

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