Friday, February 18, 2005
The MSRC heads back to Redmond In addition to spending time with customers and partners at RSA – as well as some eager, repeat “Wheel” fans – we had the opportunity to spend a couple of evenings with some of the journalists who cover security issues. This was a particularly valuable opportunity for the team to build relationships with security reporters and to share insights with them into what we do.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Helping Customers Face to Face It’s hard work to stand the whole day, as anyone who has worked a conference will tell you. But it’s really also a lot of fun to hear the stories from our customers (though I do fear I’m going to learn some kind of Pavlovian response to the “click click click” of the MSRC “Wheel of Fortune” in my ear the whole day!
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Musings at midnight from the “W” bar For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, I found myself hanging out in a very crowded “W” bar at midnight last night – well past my bedtime – unless, of course, there is some security incident, in which case I would be sitting in my chair at our war room looking and sounding grouchy – but anyway I digress – back to the “W” bar .
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
MSRC “Wheel of Fortune” We’ve had another really busy day on the show floor. We’ve had a continuous line at our “Wheel of Fortune” as survey participants are eager to spin our wheel and win an Xbox game! The surveys keep coming in and we’re getting a great chance to meet customers and partners.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
MSRC Customer Survey: Win an Xbox game! Wow, what an exciting day yesterday at RSA! Bill Gates actually talked about the Microsoft Security Response Center within the very opening of his keynote address! Bill also outlined Microsoft’s three key focus areas for security, which are technology innovation, guidance and industry leadership.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Securi-tini anyone? We had a great time last night at a party Microsoft hosted. It was at the Foreign Cinema, which is an awesome restaurant with enormous white walls everywhere that they play movies on. People mingled, eating fantastic food and drinking the occasional “Securi-tini” or “Harvey Firewall-banger” and movies played on the walls all around us.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Trends, or lack thereof… Sometimes you can pick up a common theme when you go to an industry show. You find that lots of vendors are talking about topic X or half of the talks seem to mention topic Y. I still haven’t found that common theme though at this event.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Alive and kicking at the end of Day 2! It’s almost 6:30 and while the MSRC “Wheel of Fortune” has finally stopped spinning my head has not. I cannot get over how many people are here, and how many stop and discuss Microsoft’s security efforts (I am sure it has nothing to do with X-Box game giveaways .
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Bill Gates Keynote: Internet Explorer 7.0! I am absolutely ecstatic to repeat Bill Gates’ announcement this morning at RSA that there will indeed be an Internet Explorer 7.0! The Internet Explorer team is a great bunch of people who’ve been watching the interest in new functionality and security intently. Internet Explorer is one of the most popular Windows components for customers, and due to its high level of interoporability it’s been a challenge for us security wise.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Kevin Kean, Director with the MSRC My first impression of RSA this year is - wow RSA has really grown! The scale reminds me of some of the networking shows a few years ago. This morning a huge number of people were signing up for the full conference. For anyone familiar with the Moscone center in San Francisco – think 10 or so lines of pre-registered attendees stretching all the way from the doors down the stairs.
