The Icelandic fire gods have taken their toll on the conference with much reorganisation of the agenda to give those speakers who haven’t made it the chance of getting here by Wednesday.
Still, as Steve Smith pointed out in the keynote there were cons and pros to the situation, some folks couldn’t make it to the UK but then others couldn’t leave and they have been enlisted to ensure the conference goes on.
The mystery keynote speakers were revealed, as well as Mr Smith, Eric Shupps, Spencer Harbar and Brett Lonsdale took to the stage to give attendees a good dose of nostalgia.
Whether the audience wanted to be reminded of the “quirky charm” of 2001, 2003 and 2007 versions of SharePoint I’m not sure but there were a few of us older types with tears in our eyes (some may have been joyful most I suspect not, one chap beside me started to shake and mutter) as we were taken through the delights of SharePoint’s growth from small web based storage app to all conquering integration and application platform.
From the basic document management available in 2001 (though allegedly not a recognised member of the family) through the introduction of SQL in 2003 and finally to the feature/solution package deployment framework.
Of course nobody could answer the question, why did Microsoft stick with that blue?