It's day 1 of Microsoft Tech-Ed 2007 South Africa at Sun City and, unsurprisingly enough, it's off to a bad start. It's not because of Microsoft, it just is Sun City. Unfortunately, this is the only venue in Southern Africa capable to hold such a convention, if only for the shear amount of delegates.

The hotel where I am was ready for check in an hour late (15:00 inset of 14:00), the "partner lounge" is not ready either, they are still busy putting up their stands, the "Microsoft" shop is not opened. Well you get the picture.

Then came time to login to the Tech-Ed help center, wow a scheduler! I can schedule my sessions, great. But I soon discovered that I could not send it to my PDA, how useless...

The keynote presented by Iain McDonald, Managing Director of the Windows Server Group at Microsoft Corporation was informative and entertaining, if not a little too long for a Sunday evening. I apologize for the photo quality, it was dark and I did not use a flash.

  


Let's see what the party is going to be like...