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fridgeuk
12-11-2002, 03:58 PM
Damn right they have. :wink:

They been over here for a roadshow. I missed the talk they did, where supposedly they showed off their new TabletPc product, as well as talk more about the .NET, Visual Basics, ASP and so forth, all because I had a Computer Science W/Discrete Maths Lecture then (damn it). However, I'm sure it involved great information and mass amounts of brainwashing.

Anyway, they had their little camper van style roadshow display outside, which was a god-send because I just wanted to get out of the rain (when it rain, damn hell it pours here). They told me a bit about their Visual Basics and ASP stuff, as well as something called Microsoft .NET ASP Web Matrix, which I'm sure they were persuading me to download (and interrupt the downloads of Samurai Pizza Cats episodes which you can't see or buy anywhere now! NEVER!!!!).

In the end, I was told some confusing stuff, got the Microsoft .NET Framework Academic Resources Kit CD (*phew* What a mouthfull), a Microsoft Poster ( oO;;;; ) and a Microsoft .NET Crash Course V2 DVD for Faculty and PhDs.

So what have I learnt today from Microsoft? Sod all really, except I'm going to try and compile the code on this CD box in an attempt to win ticket to V2003. :wink:

Matt
12-11-2002, 05:10 PM
I'd have a poster if they came down here, I've got my very own AMD Athlon XP one, complete with mouse mats and other assort mechandise :p

I've heard about the tablet pc's they are meant to be £1500+ so not exactly affordable.

Did you ask them their opinions on PHP and MySQL?? See if they are still slating anything to do with *unix, which they said they were gonna stop..

Someone should have stolen the van, as if they would report it, Mr Gates would just buy another :D

fridgeuk
12-11-2002, 08:14 PM
Yep, they asked what server I had and I said Linux. He face changed slightly, but I knew it. He was very into ASP.