Date: I guess It was 15th April..
"Microsoft: We offer products, it's your choice, if you use them or not"
It was a official visit to Microsoft Office at Domlur, Bangalore to attend Microsot Azure BootCamp. Microsoft has entered the Cloud Computing domain through their 'Azure' OS. It was a very informative conference to attend. But, don't worry in this post I am not going to explain the technicalities of the session. The day started with reaching the place and searching the Microsoft office in the web of offices with n number of roads inside that office city. Then finally finding the Microsoft office and particularly the conference room within the hug microsoft office. As usual we (me and my colleague) were an hour late. I rolled my eyes to find a place to put my ass and luckily got a seat in the last corner of the room. Then the introductory session about Microsoft Azure started with 3 biggies of Microsoft explaining the architects from different companies about this new product of MS. Most of the architect had more than 8-10 years of experience and had reached this level after doing a lot of coding using Microsoft Technologies but were reluctant to change the way they used to code to adopt the Azure way of coding for cloud. Hey! had I told you that this was a CTP, so microsofft invited us to provide some ideas what we need in the professional version of this product, what are we missing in the CTP version etc. Then after some interesting and boring debates about the way UI and Database is handled in Azure, the development, testing and deployment is done using Azure, etc. it was a relief as lunch time came to my rescue and I rushed for a quick smoke. And here came the thing I was shocked to note, I came out side in the reception block and found the doors locked and I didn't had the access, I waited ...waited...and waited....and then ..