When the team went to this year’s MixUK 07 we witnessed a number of impressive demos.  The sneak peeks session at the end of the event was probably the most interesting and covered a variety of innovative ideas.  SeaDragon was an incarnation of the Microsoft acquisition of the company of the same name back in February 07.  This technology was shown earlier in the year at TED.  Microsoft is planning to ship SeaDragon next year as part of the Silverlight 1.1 release.

Something that interested Bruce was the talk on Transactional Memory and was presented by Simon Peyton Jones from Microsoft Research in Cambridge.  In a nutshell, Microsoft are trying to address the problems that arise with the performance overhead of managing concurrency in memory in a multi-core environment. 

On the first night Zi organised food and drink after the event.  I sat on the same table as Mike Ormond, Danny Thorpe and a few guys and gals from screenedit.  Thanks for a good night.