New announcements at Microsoft PDC

Just arrived at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, and listened to the announcement of Microsoft Azure, 'windows in the cloud' - a set of all the server services that you can have on the Windows Server platform (.Net, web services, SQL etc) but running on Microsoft's own global infrastructure.

I'm giving a presentation as part of Scott Guthrie's keynote speech tomorrow, alongside Paul Dawon of Conchango as we demo a new prorotype best-of-breed grocery shopping experience for Tesco customers built in Microsft's Silverlight/WPF technology.

Bizarrely the Microsoft Wifi network here at PDC refuses to give me DHCP network settings when in Vista (bootcamp) but all works great in OS X!