Microsoft Tech Summit

Looks like Microsoft recently had a meeting of people that weren’t too supportive of Microsoft in general. It was a conference by invite only and they invited both pro- and anti-Microsoft developers alike.

At MTS2006 whole range of Microsoft technologies was presented to the participants with intention to show to the enemies of Microsoft that Microsoft is not that evil as it is portrayed by Slashdot and other Open Source oriented publications. Microsoft was also gathering feedback with promise to do something with that feedback.

While it is noteworthy that Windows Mobile was present at MTS2006, Microsoft still has long way to go when it comes to convince mobile phone industry (wireless carriers, mobile phone manufacturers and end both enterprise and private users) that Windows Mobile is a good thing. Maybe instead of spending money on further invite-only conferences, Microsoft could redirect these resources to product development?

Yeah, given my recent experience with trying to get my new Pocket PC Sprint PPC-6700 working and synch’d, I’d agree with those comments, as would the other commenters on my original post.