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At the moment, I am sitting at the back of a jam-packed room waiting for the Build keynote to begin. The room has 6 massive displays counting down the time to the start of the keynote…13:23 left…

It sounds severely geeky, but you can really feel the anticipation I the air! I am SOOOO happy that I am not doing the keynote. But hopefully they have something good enough to wow the crowd! Otherwise I would consider going on stage a suicide mission. People would rip MSFT a new one. So my expectations are high!

However, we have still not heard anything about anything! All we know so far is that the whole day is in the same MASSIVE room and the “sessions” are all called “Big Picture”.

My guess for the day…? Well, I would expect a ridiculous amount of talk about multiple connected device, and cloud based services. And the word of the day will most likely be “end-user experience”, which I think is really good. As long as Microsoft doesn’t try to copy Apple too much… It’s a fine line…

Well, time to listen to what they have to say!

PS: Sorry for having made several posts with no information at all… But it just shows you what the situation is here!

Today has been a ridiculously long day, and it is far from over… Cab picked me up at 04:45 and headed towards Arlanda, where the plane headed skyways at 06:25. And after a couple of hours in Frankfurt, the trip went on to LAX. In the shuttle to the hotel, looked at the time on my phone, it said 12:22 (thank you WP7 for picking up the time zone change that fast). So even though I was feeling less that great, I still had almost a whole day to kill…

That whole day has so far gone to checking in at the hotel, registering at BUILD and getting a prepaid sim-card for my phone (after a semi long walk in warm weather, and a $36 cab ride)…

So far I have little information to give away. The program still only says things like “keynote”, “Big Picture” and “sessions”. So that will have to wait until tomorrow…sorry! But I really don’t know more than you.

There is a lot of speculation at the moment, but I can honestly say that the only information I can give you is that it is nice and warm, and that I can see the back of one of the Disneyland rides from my 9th floor balcony. Maybe I will have a bit more to say, or gossip about after the Swede meet up tonight, but I don’t know… Stay tuned!

Ok, so I have finally got myself settled in Stockholm (Sweden) and started my new job at Active Solution. It has started slow, but it is looking very promising after having been here a day and a half. It might even give me a bit more time to keep my dear blog active, which has unfortunately been a bit neglected during the whole move from Sweden.

One of the first things I am going to do for my new employer, is to go to the BUILD Windows conference in Anaheim, and blog and tweet as much of the information I get my hands on as possible…with my personal views included of course (not that they really asked for that)…

So I went to the BUILD website and registered myself, something that went very smooth. I guess that is to be expected. Whenever someone wants you to give them $1595 (or whatever it was), they generally remove any friction from the process.

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