02-09-2003, 09:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Leavin' On a Jet Plane - Five Days and I'll be Back Again
This afternoon I'm leaving for the 2003 Microsoft MVP Conference. I'll be gone until Friday night, and I'm not sure what kind of connectivity I'll have down there. Even if I have a connection in my hotel room, I'll be in meetings all day and won't be able to post news. And it just so happens that 80% of the news team is going to be with me - Andy, Marlof, Ed and Brad are all Mobile Devices MVPs. That leaves the new guy, Janak. :lol:
Because it's a little daunting running this site all by oneself, I've temporarily promoted our community moderator, Steven Cedrone, to the news team - you'll be seeing his name on the front page for the next week. You may see a decrease in the amount of news, or you may not - we'll see how well these guys do on their own. :wink:
I'm looking forward to the MVP Summit for a few reasons:- It's always great to see members of the Thoughts team
- I haven't seen some of my fellow MVPs in almost a year
- Two words: US stores (big selection)
- There have been some new additions to the MVP team that include Smartphone MVPs and embedded Windows CE MVPs, whom I haven't met yet
- Bill Gates and Steve Balmer will be doing keynote speeches, and last time we saw this hilarious video where Steve was Luke Skywalker and Bill was Harry Potter :lol: (I kid you not!)
- Seattle & Redmond are beautiful cities - I always love visiting
- Three words: Microsoft company store
- And the best reason for going: we have a day and a half of meetings with the Mobile Devices team - nearly every program manager there is, including some of the important people who make the decisions - including the ActiveSync team and the product planners for the next generation OS. This is our chance to interface with them, bring forward the issues we've seen over the past year, and beg them to fix them
So there you have it! I won't be very responsive to email or private messages over the next week, so don't get hyper if I don't respond to you right away. :wink: Continue to send in your news to the news@ alias or use the news submit form.
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02-09-2003, 09:05 PM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 5,133
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Good luck and have fun!
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02-09-2003, 09:08 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 1,023
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Muhaha... my time has come to wreck HAVOK... :twisted: erm... sorry... sorry... no, I'll be good... really. ... Don't lock my account the whole time you're away or anything. :lol:
Have a good trip guys.
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02-09-2003, 09:14 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 361
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The weather is nice now, but it's been pretty cold lately (sub 0, for you Canadians). We'll see what next week brings.
-Jason
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02-09-2003, 09:18 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Originally Posted by Rirath
Muhaha... my time has come to wreck HAVOK... :twisted:
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Don't worry, both Steve and I will be sharing the moderation load. So you ain't gonna get far... 
--janak
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02-09-2003, 09:41 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 480
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OMG!!! There is no happier place in this world than the MS Company Store!
I hope they don't impose a spending limit on you guys like they do on employees.
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02-09-2003, 09:43 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Originally Posted by seanturner
I hope they don't impose a spending limit on you guys like they do on employees.
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I don't know about that -- I for one would really hope they impose a spending limit on me, otherwise my credit card would be hurting. A lot. 
--janak
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02-09-2003, 09:50 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 480
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lol, yeah, never thought about it from that perspective...
But take a look at it this way, look at all the money you're saving! lol.
Sean Turner <---- A product of consumer America :lol: jk
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02-09-2003, 09:50 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,303
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Send us a postcard! :wink: Don't be breaking no NDAs now yahear! :twisted:
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02-09-2003, 10:15 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 42
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Hey Jason, have a good trip !
If there is one thing you could ask your "associates" for me is, when do THEY think the .Net CF runtime will be in Pocket PC devices (ie.in ROM)
Greets,
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