Yesterday i was at the Technical Summit Tour 2005 here in Bremen. Heared something about SQL Server 2005, XML in SQL Server, Visual Studio 2005 and more about that. But, most of that can be found out with a one-weekend-test-session.
Not all was so boring. Some ideas about C# (with its open-source variant Mono) were very useful. I like the C-like slang in C# and the JAVA-like platform idependence.
But, i know more why i dont like the Microsoft way. Its to complicated to write Microsoft software.