Technet Pro 2006 event

I attended today Microsoft Finland's Technet Pro 2006 event at the Finland Hall. The event gathered about 1300 IT professionals (and some developers) to learn the latest technical information about new operating systems and applications, such as Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista, Office 12, and so on.

To me, the most interesting sessions were about Windows Server 2003 R2 and Vista, and 64-bit processor architectures. I confess I've found difficult all those 64-bit related acronyms such as "x64", "EMT64" and "IA-64", but today I refreshed my memory what they were. The 64-bit extensions in 32-bit processors sounded interesting, so I decided to do a simple application to detect what features are present on a processor. Stay tuned for code.