TechEd India Day One went great. High points: Office 2003/InfoPath sessions from Raj Chaudhari and Deepak Gulati (excellent speakers, both of them). The Longhorn video was great too, hope to see more in October and November!

The demos just confirmed what I felt after playing with the betas: with InfoPath’s and Word’s writing out data to user-defined schemas, and Word’s ability to mark up documents as XML after-the-fact, Microsoft has the strongest and friendliest XML processing toolkit on the market today. (Of course, they weren’t the first — anyone remember SoftQuad’s XMetal Pro?)

Biggest boo-boo: A certain *cough* speaker at the keynote, claiming SPOT was based on Wi-Fi :-p.

No I was wrong about the biggest boo-boo: this is the bigger boo-boo. This is what I still get when I try to log into MyTechEd online (as of Sep 24 9.30pm):

http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/teched/register.asp :
Active Server Pages error ‘ASP 0126′
Include file not found
/sp03/teched/register.asp, line 67
The include file ‘/navigation/header/tech_edtop.asp’ was not found.

This is after two Microsoft event management partners and one Microsoft employee assured me all possible wrinkles have been worked out on Sep 23.