Shut-Up and Smile

I'm in San Francisco, CA, right now Launch 2005 with AC/DC's For Those About to Rock blaring through the speakers. Rock the Launch is the theme.

Verizon wireless is great. Let's see what happens.

Update 1: Cheap Trick (yes this Cheap Trick) opened the show Live!

Update 2: they're showing a video of a bunch of RD's giving video testimonials--Adam Cogan was one. And Billy Hollis asks Are You Ready to Rock?

Update 3: Ballmer comes out, in a suit! Yikes!

Update 4: Prashant Sridharan, Group Product Manager for Visual Studio 2005 is showing SQL Server 2005, Team System, and more--in fact he showed Visual Basic 2005 code--right on!

Update 5: The president of Intel is up on stage with Ballmer talking about how Intel with Microsoft and DELL have broken the $1 per TPC barrier. Cool. Also, they mentioned how they're moving virtualization on to the chip. Over the next year this should really make using products like Virtual PC/Server that much better. Especially when they add hypervisor into the OS. They're showing a 5 9's Unisys box--less than 22 minutes of downtime a year. Sweet. I wonder if I can get the wife to let me sell the house for one of those? (Just kidding dear).

Update 6: added some hyperlinks.

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