Microsoft CRM featured in PDC Keynote

Posted by Mike Snyder on September 13, 2005  |  Comments (0)

We're live at the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference, and I am very glad to report that a Microsoft CRM 3.0 demo made the opening keynote speech by Bill Gates! They showed how CRM 3.0 will include an RSS XML feature where you can configure CRM to dynamically publish customer data. Their demo showed an RSS export of customer qutoes, but the concept could be easily extended to other topics such as new Leads, won Opportunities, new Cases, etc. We're very excited that CRM is receiving "keynote level attention"!

Of course, there was lots of other cool stuff in the keynote but because it was ridiculously long (over 3.5 hours), everyone's schedule are a little goofed right now. Here's a quick list of some of my other personal keynote highlights before I have to run to my next session:

• First public demo of Office 12 - they showed the new UI which is very different from Office 2003, but I think people will like it a lot

• More demos of Vista - lots of great stuff with the tricks they are using to improve application performance. The Vista UI is just amazing to see.

• Enhancements to C# by using LINQ (new technology/syntax)

• Public release of ATLAS - Microsoft's implementation of AJAX web application technology (very very cool)

I'll post again later as we learn more...