http://confabb.com/conferences/IT%40Cork2006/sessions/519 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:24:34 GMT Attendee Reviews of Are Desktop Applications the way of the past? http://confabb.com/conferences/IT%40Cork2006/sessions/519/details#108 Jacques-Etienne Grandjean is the Senior Director, Comm Sector Western Europe of Microsoft. Jean-Etienne’s presentation title was “Are Desktop Applications the way of the past?” Jacques-Etienne was unfortunately doing a sales job on Microsoft Live rather than addressing the actual title of his talk. Not once, even when discussing search, did he mention any of Microsoft’s competitors. Shame really ‘cos, while Microsoft are behind in this space, a couple of their Live offerings are quite good but not mentioning the better products of their competitors, devalues all of Microsoft’s Live offerings. Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:24:34 GMT http://confabb.com/conferences/IT%40Cork2006/sessions/519/details#108 Mr Tom Raftery http://confabb.com/conferences/IT%40Cork2006/sessions/519/details#103 The Microsoft speaker was good at his job and the slides were very attractive. I felt at the end like I was at the receiving end of a sales pitch however: It's interesting to see where MS is going, but I didn't always see the connection between the talk content, and the title, and the overall session title of Software as a Service. Microsoft was all abount "Software AND a Service" and I don't see much new there. Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:00:05 GMT http://confabb.com/conferences/IT%40Cork2006/sessions/519/details#103 Brendan Lawlor