I did a lot of work today in the Regional Director booth helping to film the GrokTalks. It was a lot of fun. The only session that I can talk about today is the keynote. I am sure that there is a lot of coverage and you have heard the news but just in case you live under a rock and only read my blog here is what I got out of it.

SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 will launch the week of November 7.

Microsoft is jumping into the RFID space with some tools or support in the OS or something. It wasn't really clear what exactly they were going to do.

"The Finalizer" is a battle bot built with the .NET Compact Framework. It was pretty neat to see it "destroy" a network switch on stage.

If you happen to be looking for something to do tomorrow and don't have any breakout sessions that you want to see you can drop by the Regional Director booth in the community paviliion area and watch us film a GrokTalk.