The New Microsoft

Yesterday evening at the Truman, we had the wonderful pleasure of Microsoft giving us the lowdown on the latest and greatest in the world of creative products and services coming out of Redmond. The audience, mostly from user experience, creative and client services, were treated to demo’s of Silverlight, WPF, DeepZoom, Surface, Live Mesh, Azure, Secondlight, Windows 7 and so much more. With so many creative technology engagements at LBi, the fit of these technologies alongside some of our .NET, SharePoint, Endeca and EPiServer builds makes a lot of sense for our customers.

It was a great insight into the ‘New’ Microsoft and where it’s heading, I’m very excited that LBi are part of this venture and look forward to seeing our UX/Creative teams blend with Microsoft to develop some very cool, exciting and cutting edge creative digital solutions.

A big thanks to the Microsoft folks who spent the evening with us. James, you blew us away with Azure, ‘gen 4’ data centers and Windows 7. Michael, thanks for showcasing the likes of Surface, DeepZoom and Secondlight – very cool stuff indeed! And off course Matt, our account manager, for organising things on the Microsoft end.

Right, where did I put that copy of Expression Blend…