Has anybody ever went to one of these? There's gonna be one here in Nashville May 15th and I'm going to go with a few people from work, any idea what I can expect? *hopes to win a free copy of 2k3 server* lol

Sounds good, do you have to pay for entry or do you have to be invited? I have never been to one seen as they don't have them in the UK :(
Take some pictures for us :P

@Robin :
You might find an event right here :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...worldwide.mspx

Damn, those events are online. I would have gone to one just to get a picture of myself either balmer or gates. I think everyone should target practice at every oportunity :P

I have signed up with a meeting with Balmer, May 6 :)

You get the pictures i will get the rifle out :D

you will get some nice free items..received my invite few days back

Yea, free lunch and a day off work :)! Seriously, they're not too bad though. I suppose nobody would come back if they were too boring. Usually handouts at the door and a couple of free software giveaways for answering questions, so keep your ears open to what they're saying and you stand a decent chance. Oh yeah, M$ usually does some pretty cool multimedia too B). I'll be at the one here on May 12th.

Have fun,
E3

lol, there one here starts at 6pm, so free dinner and going after work :cursing: :mad: :mad2:

:chair: 's M$ for not making it earlier in the day :pile:

Hopefully I'll win a copy of 2K3 Server then :D, one of the guys i'm going with says for the 2000 Pro launch they gave away two high end PC's here too, /me would love to win one of those :lol:

Will take some pictures if anybody really noteable is there and post them :D

I just came back from a two day tech drill MSFT threw at us...
Now I know how much I do not know!!!

This was something else, a great study session.
Highly recommend to everyone, who is a techie...

Thanks BearCat, didn't realise there were events in the UK. Having them online is probably better for me as well because I haven't got a car :P

Some pretty cool stuff from Neowin and the launch party...

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?c...=main&id=10572

The event was so-so :yawn:
cant say I was too much impressed by the "media show" they offerd... except Elvis :clown:
The sub's and sodas they offerd as a free lunch :eat: was not to bad, but still....

What was most intresting wass Steve Balmers speak, he made some good points,
and had a very intresting look on his face when he mentioned Sun Java :censored: :baby:

What did I bring back home ?
A free 180 Days evaluation of Win 2003 Standard server.

Was it worth it, taking a day away from work you may ask ?
YES :punk:

Hi BC,

Thanks for the update. I'm scheduled to go on Monday. Is it worth it or should I just blow it off (I've got lots of work piling up :()?

Thanks,
E3

@E3 :
I would say go for it, if your work is piling up, you could need a brake anyways ;)
And it might be better "give-aways" and food in your end :)

Thanks BC... Yes, I went today. It wasn't as good as some of the other launches I've been to, but they did have a really good lunch :). Big push for the updated Sharepoint Services (free beta download soon) but I can tell anyone considering it that the first version was terrible, so be careful. Hey, I got a 180 day trial of Visual Studio .NET 2003 there. Is anyone using it? Does it tie in very uniquely with the 2003 server ware?

Thanks,
E3

I enjoyed it very much, unusually it was at LA Convention Center, not at a major hotel, or Univeral Studios, as before.
Lunch and breakfast were good, and I found Advertisers/Supporters with booths quite useful and interested in doing business.
Presentation equipment was definitely first rate.
Presentors from local Santa Monica office competent and friendly.
Quality of info and demos good to excellent.
Prizes at the end were very nice and everything went smooth and efficiently, at least B+ overall.