Flying around a Visual Studio Launch event

Last week, I had an opportunity to be attendee (other then speaker this time) at one of our Visual Studio 2008 launch events. This was no ordinary Microsoft launch event. I didn’t even have to leave my home office to attend. This particular launch event took place in the metaverse known as Second Life . I was a little skeptical at the prospects of this type of event and how it would play out. After all, I didn’t want to see any flying male genitalia while I was sitting in on a discussion on Visual Studio 2008 web development features. I mustered up the gumption to try out this new medium and see how it would all go down. I will have to say, I was quite impressed. I’ve logged on to Second Life a couple of times before to see what all the fuss was about. I never really made it past the introductory area where they teach you how to move around and interact with the environment. When I logged on for the launch event, I just typed in “Microsoft Lau...