I missed breakfast this morning because I watched the USS Stennis get pushed back from the dock and start steaming out to sea. Quite a sight to see.

As always, the opening keynote of TechEd was a major Microsoft player, this time CEO Steve Ballmer. And, to not break with tradition, the talk was peppered with the standard fair of ‘TCO’, ‘Business Information Workers’, ’empowerment’, and other long looking things. Major things announced: Web Services Enhancements 2.0 (WSE 2.0 or ‘whizzy’ as they’d like it pronounced), a technical beta of the Office chunks to pull data from Web Services (the name escapes me), and Visual Studio 2005 Team System. The most interesting one seems to the VS2005 Team, which seems to include a new source/change control system. Hopefully this will be true, should find out at a session later in the week, Thursday I think.

Now, I’m off to a session on Windows and Linux: A tale of two kernels. Or, if this stinks, I’m headed to one on testing with Virtual PC 2004.

And, the first free tshirt of the week has been acquired, along with a baseball advertising Visual Studio 2005.