Presentation of Visual Studio 2010 in Kazakhstan

I visited today at the Kazakhstan presentation Visual Studio 2010, as this event was called Microsoft - “Microsoft Developer Days, Spring 2010”. In general, it was not without interest, even for me, a person quite far from the development process.
If you describe the program of performances in brief, it will look like this:

• Silverlight is a super thing, Flash is resting;
• Microsoft apologizes for the sixth IE and at the same time offers to help her get rid of this relic, by switching to the eight and, in perspective, the nine;
• Microsoft is very serious about supporting PHP in its web server, and is even about to release a native driver for connecting PHP with a SQL server, and now it offers a tool for migrating from MySQL to MS SQL, but I haven’t heard anything that would definitely indicate the appropriateness of such a step.

Well, in fact, everything, the rest is trivial: Windows Phone is an incredible cool, in which there will be no copy / paste and multitasking support for most applications, except for service ones.
In the light of talk about Silverlight and web technologies, a lot of words were said about “donkey” that I disliked, and the guys told me so deliciously that I couldn’t wait to dig into the features of the eight, which I didn’t do when I returned home. Yes, but in the end, of course, I continue to be faithful to Opera.

On May 27, Microsoft is waiting for everyone to present the new Office. I sincerely regret that I myself will hardly be able to go there.