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I mentioned the other day about a couple of TechNet events that James and I are doing in a couple of weeks time, and I thought I'd spill the beans a little more on what we will be covering in the sessions.  Just a note before I continue - this stuff if purely aimed at the consumer market, so we won't be covering all the businessy-type bits, just the really cool stuff!

OK, first things first, there are 2 sessions, one on the 1st May and one on the 3rd May.  Just so you know, the details are:

01 May 2007 18:30 - 21:20 GMT
Welcome Time: 18:00
Leeds Showcase Cinema, Screen 220 (That's a big Cinema?), Gelderd Road Birstall Batley West Yorkshire, WF17 9RQ
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03 May 2007 18:30 - 21:20 GMT
Welcome Time: 18:00
Microsoft Ltd, Chicago 1&2, Building 3, Microsoft Campus Thames Valley Park Reading Berkshire RG6 1WG
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So, what is the flow of the event?  Well, obviously we start with the obligatory intro, but then it is straight into demo demo demo, which we know you love!  The first session is dedicated to what you can do with Vista 'Out of the Box', so, things like Search, but not for documents, I'm talking tagging, photo's, videos and so on, but not just across the client, oh no, across on to Windows Home Server, which we will be demoing, live, uncut, for your viewing pleasure.

From Home Server, we move gracefully on to Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and DVD Maker, closely followed by a helping of Backup and Restore Center, focusing on the Complete PC Backup side of things, where we will demo a live Complete PC Backup.  We'll cover abit on Security, but focusing on Parental Controls and the granularity that it present in this area.  We'll finish the first section with some info on Networking and the Windows Firewall.

We'll give you some time to recover with a quick break, before we hit the real cool stuff...as session 2 is all about Vista: Extended....

We'll have a quick recap of session 1, before we hit you with 3 beauties straight off, namely cool gadgets, even cooler WPF and WPF/E applications (Now named Silverlight...), and because we want to treat you well, we'll be showing a couple of SideShow devices.  We then move on to my favourite area - the Media Center.  Add to that, the HD-DVD Drive, extending the experience onto the Xbox 360, and wrapping it all together with a it of Xbox Live vs Games For Windows - Live, and you have an enthralling demo (and a lot of kit to transport home!)

Sound fun?  Sound interesting?  Sound cool?

Register for 1st May @ Leeds Showcase
Register for 3rd May @ Microsoft Campus, Reading