The ‘Understanding Web Services’ MSDN event back in November went very well.  It was great to see over 200 people who were interested enough to spend a day learning about web services.  Simon Harriyott has a good report of his day at the event.  Simon also has a great post on the different pronunciations of web service terminology where he questions why UDDI isn’t pronounced as ‘uddy’:

WSDL is pronounced "Wizzdull".

WSE is pronounced "Wizzy".

UDDI is NOT pronounced "Uddy", but as spelt.

ASMX is pronounced "Azumex".

Best of all is WSE-WSDL, which is of course "Wizzy-wizzdull".

It was Mike Shaw’s last day as a Microsoft employee after 13 years.  To celebrate his final talk he showed a VPC demo of Microsoft Bob, which sadly didn’t end up working.  He did mention Bob’s amazing security system which let the user choose a new password after three mistakes!  Valery Pryamikov posts more on Bob and how it demonstrates how Microsoft has improved its approach to security.