....thanks to a large amount of snow in the Colorado airport, my flight was delayed one day and so a mad scramble was necessary to make it on time to the keynote for MIX - but I'm here. Gates just got done talking (this was physically the closest I have ever been to him, kind of a thrill, pictures later). Anyway, he talked a lot about the next generation MS technologies, showed off how MS is broadening their reach by supporting so many desparate mobile devices, and mostly, spoke about the next generation web technologies leveraging the Microsoft technology codenamed "AJAX".

    As is the case with keynotes, it's mostly a general overview of things - so nothing major I didn't already kind of know (but got some good swag). The labs I'm going to are mostly centered around IE7 and its AJAX technologies and IIS7.0 (so, that's what you're going to hear about the most). I'm tired, but I'll try keeping the best notes I can and keep everyone up to date....stay tuned.