The day right after Apple came to visit us, Microsoft came to present as well. They didn’t start with a “Apple sucks” commercial, and I applaud them for that.

The main presenter was Dean Hachamovitch, the general manager of Internet Explorer, which was pretty cool since I’m mostly interested in what’s related to the web. He seemed to be particularly enthused about accessibility and talked about IE8′s ARIA support. He also pointed out for any colorblind students in attendence that some of the bulletpoints on one of his slides were a different color from the other bulletpoints, which really isn’t the best way to go about being accessible, but it’s good to see that management can be so enthused about something that really matters to developers, and to many users.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to stay long because I had an ACM meeting to attend, but it was a good talk to attend, and they had some good barbecue chicken too. Yumm.