The Tech Zone Vs. Microsoft

No talking during class!

After breakfast, we were ushered  into the Chinook room. The room was setup with 35 workstations, one for each of us. It reminded me a lot of computer science classes, only Microsoft had much more powerful computers. 

Here's a picture of my workstation. MS gave everyone a lot of toys to play with, including not one but two Pocket PCs! There was also a Pocket PC modem and LAN interface card, Sony head phone, software, 128Meg compact flash memory card and a bunch of other stuff. All in all I made off with an estimated $2,000 of loot. 

We spent the first morning getting to know the Pocket PC. Now I have never own a Pocket PC or any Palm device but I must admit that this can be one helpful tool for my business. The most impressive thing I like about it is the way it syncs with my MS Outlook. Everything I enter into Outlook is also entered into the Pocket PC if it's connected to the comp. 

Rob and I were the only two without a Palm.

During the lunch break, Rob from Geek.com and myself decided to test out our workstations by playing some Quake 3. I don't know what kind of connection Microsoft has but Rob and I were able to download the full Quake 3 demo (47.7 Megs) in about five minutes! The only problem was our IBM computers didn't have GeForce video cards so we had to make do with just 640x480 gaming *yuk*. You can imagine the looks on the other attendees faces when they saw two hardware guys fragging each other while they're talking about boring Palms. The MS people thought it was pretty funny.

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