As I mentioned in previous posts, I was Microsoft's largest sponsored conference a few weeks ago. I have been mulling over what I saw and heard while I was there and I feel it's time to write a little post-mortem. First point, the conference is huge. Clearly the industry loves to bring 15,000 people together from all parts of the world and all sorts of disciplines. I got to meet and speak with a myriad of customers although I clearly spent most of my time talking to developers. While the conference focuses on IT issues unrelated to C++, there are still plenty of companies whose developers w