TechEd 2007 EMEA Key Note
Some areas from the Key Note that may have an impact on SharePoint in the future.
Microsoft Sync Framework - CTP available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sync/bb821992.aspx
Will this integrate into SharePoint? talking SharePoint content offline – merge conflict, version control? Will this become part of the core system, how will it compare to products like Colligio or Syntergy? Will Microsoft leave the Sync Provider and Sync Agents for SharePoint to the ISVs?
SharePoint was demo’d 
SharePoint was used to demo the KPIs and workflow based on the Contoso foods sample. Not really talked about as a development platform but reinforcing its value to the developer community.
True Development Story - a lot was talked about how Microsoft ’Dog fooded’ the VS2008 development and this has improved the tools specifically around the Visual Studio Team System offering and the planned (see “Rosario” for more information http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb725993.aspx). Now the killer question here is will we get the tools we need to make SharePoint development a first class citizen in Visual Studio? The SharePoint MVP community is very vocal with Microsoft on this.
VS Extensibility - World of War Craft development environment built in 4 man weeks (2 devs, 2 weeks). How long will it take to do this for SharePoint? (see note above).
Overall a fair Keynote. Most of announcements were sort of known about.
I’m really looking forward to some of the demo’s on LINQ, this is an area that will impact SharePoint. It was also intersting to see less push for Silverlight which was the case at Mix 07.
