["Craig Flannagan" <craigfla at microsoft.com>] Microsoft Canada would like to visit your user group

[James Knott]

Jing Su wrote:
>>If you ask me, let's invite them if we have no other topic planned. It's
>>not every day you get a free seminar from Microsoft. Besides, from what
>>I understand they are offering to buy us pizza.
> 
> 
>>>Topics for our meeting could include:
>>>
>>>*	Application Security: Tools for Authenticating and Authorizing
>>>Users
>>>*	Building Web Applications with ASP.NET
>>>*	64-Bit Computing and the Future of Microsoft Technologies
> 
> 
> I second the motion to invite him if we have no other compelling speaker
> for the next TLUG meeting.
> 
> I also second the motion to have him buy beer with the pizza. :)
> 
> However, if possible, I'd like to (additionally) hear M$ talk about
> Palladium, on a more technical level.  I'm tempted to say we "boo" the
> speaker whenever he diverts down the path of Marketing-speak.  But that's
> very rude.  Anyone have a better and more polite way of letting them know
> we're not interested in their sales pitch?


Well, I was going to suggest that we'd coordinate the hecklers to do 
their thing at the appropriate times, but then I realized that would be 
akin to herding cats.  ;-)

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