Hi all

Yesterday was the (real) First day of the Biggest Developers conference in the middle-east and we were all waiting to see what’s new on this year's conference.

I think we all expecting more from Microsoft cause there are too many topics to share with us and to focus on to help us code better.

But as for the first day, this is not by any meaning a conference that holds the title (Middle-east Developers conference).

Why? Let me list my opinion in a few things from the first day:

   -Good Things:

  •  The blind developer: was amazing part and made us all happy and proud of him.
  •  The meeting with ITWorx & ministry of investment representatives.
  •  The jokes on the stage.
  •  Vista Dream Scene: a new magic that lets you sets a video as a Desktop Background.

  - Bad Things:

  •  MR: Karim ramadan(with my all respect) gave us an impression that he is not prepared at all, Don’t know what this conference is about, and finally didn’t say the word we expected from such a respective ,experienced man like him(BTW, I respect him Very much and am really saying this as a comment not as anything else)
  • The Kid's show: I know it was a good idea but-for us as developers-I think we expected more to introduce than bringing two kids to spend 25 min with without a useful word for us. If you want to introduce this thing, sure we will attend if you mentioned about as a separated activity before the conference or even introduce it on the closing ceremony, but to be in the Main Keynote, it's not acceptable at all.
  • I think that for about an hour, you didn’t even say the word (Visual Studio) even one time, and you just concentrated on showing us the improvements for Vista: I know it's good but remember that we are in Developers Conference.

Finally I have a little word, all the previous points (including the good and the bad things) are from my point of view, and I have tried to share them cause we all would like any Conference exists here in EGYPT to be as good as any other one in any other European country or any other conference in the United States.

So, tell us your opinion, share it with us, and sure it's all for us and for Microsoft too. ;)