If your journey spending budget hasn;t evaporated into thin air — or if you want to follow along vicariously — here is a list of some of the conferences and events in 2009 where Microsoft will likely show and/or release new products.It;s worth noting that so far,
Windows 7 Discount, at least,
Microsoft Office 2007 Key, there;s no Windows Hardware Engineering Conference slated for 2009. (Originally,
Microsoft Office 2007, one was scheduled for May in New Orleans,
Office Professional 2010, but it has disappeared.) Even Microsoft isn;t immune from slashing travel/conference budgets….1/8 - 1/11 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2009 - Las Vegas (Ballmer keynote is 1/7 at 6:30 p.m. PT)1/28 - 1/29 Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference 2009 - Redmond (Expect more Oslo info to be on the agenda)2/3 - 2/7 TED - Palm Springs (Don;t be surprised to see a glimpse of some Live Labs or Microsoft Research project)
2/9 - 2/11 FASTforward ‘09 Microsoft enterprise search conference - Las Vegas
2/16 - 2/19 Mobile World Congress - Barcelona (Perhaps the venue for a Windows Mobile 6.5 sneak peek?)2/24 Microsoft Research TechFest 2009 - Redmond (For Softies, press and invited guests only)
2/24 - 2/26 VSLive 2009 - San Francisco (Could this be the Rosario team-system launch pad?)3/1 - 3/4 Microsoft MVP Summit - Seattle (for Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals and invited guests only)
3/10 - 3/13 Microsoft Convergence 2009 - New Orleans3/18 - 3/20 Microsoft MIX 09 - Las Vegas4/20 -4/24 RSA - San Francisco (Might be a good place for a Morro security service and/or a “Stirling” security suite update.)5/11 - 5/15 Microsoft TechEd - Los Angeles (Microsoft has re-integrated the developer and IT pro tracks and cut back the show to a week. Huzzah!)5/26 - 5/28 D7 conference (The Wall Street Journal confab where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will no doubt yet again be on the Q&A hot seat.)7/13 - 7/16 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference - New Orleans (Yet another opportunity for Microsoft to try to convince its hosting partners that it;s not trying to compete with them with its Online services.)
7/?? - 7/?? Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2009 (educators,
Microsoft Office 2010 Pro Plus, researchers and invited guests only)7/30 Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting (Wall Street analysts and invited press only)9/22 - 9/24 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) – San Francisco (Good time for an update on Windows client and server)11/9 - 11/13 TechEd EMEA - Berlin11/17 - 11/20 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference ( PDC ) 09 - Los Angeles. (Office 14 might be the star at this one)Any other Microsoft-related events for 2009 on your radar screens yet?