Good morning from Tech.Ed 2008 Day 1 live from the Keynote.

From what I’m told from my secret sources there are a few surprises in store for us today for the keynote. The main presentation this morning is from Amit Mital, General Manager of Live Mesh and Developer Platform (LM&DP).

I caught up with Peter & Steve a few of this years delegates just outside the entry to the Keynote Arena, and here’s what they had to say.

It’s just gone 8.40am and its all started with a bit of a bang here! The drumb and bass is pumping and all sorts acrobatics to kick off the morning!

The host for the morning is Jonathan Biggins sp?

Over 200 events to take in over the next 5 days, so lots and lots to take in, and hopefully we can keep you up to date with as much as we can right here at TechEdLive.com

(0848) Tracey Fellows, Managing Director of Microsoft Australia has just taken the stage for her opening presentation. Big thanks to all the major sponsors (of course!) HP, Cisco and a whole swag more.

(0849) Welcome to the stage, keynote presenter, Amit Mital.
The big talk for the morning, Software + Services (ie. Managing your environment in the cloud and combining all your devices so you can work more effectively.)

Software + Services is a licensing approach on a pay per use or pay per license approach.

(0925) Demo – Kevin Ransey (The Online Workshop) & Dr Neil

(0931) Dr Neil has just pulled out what looks like his Blackberry and taken a photo. When asked what he was doing he replied… taking a photo… I want to Blog about it

(0933) Justin Adler – Lead Developer, Street Advisor (live.streetadvisor.com)

Well we’re getting to the end of the KeyNote…. a strange Kiwi in a full suit swimming costume just came and gave us a few laughs.

Tech.Greg – I must say… there is something missing from Tech.Ed so far…. NO FRANK! We miss you Frank, hope everything is going well O/S