Microsoft has just finished our Fiscal Year 2006 (FY?06). Apparently the month after a fiscal year-end is a great time to travel the country for a number of meetings. FY?07 Kick-off meetings? sales conferences?.technical conferences?etc.

My July is shaping up to be the ?Dave Bost World Tour 2006?. Tomorrow we kick it off with a team offsite in Dallas from July 10?11, than the infamous Microsoft sales conference (MGX-Microsoft Global Exchange) in Orlando from July 19?23. And than, for some miraculous reason, Microsoft?s internal technical conference (TechReady), taking place July 23?28th in Seattle. I?m not sure who came up with the grand plan on schedulingMGX on back-to-back weeks with TechReady? on opposite ends of the country!

Normally, DE?s wouldn?t attend the sales conference, but our manager?s-manager thought it would be valuable for new employeesto attend MGX. After all the pain of traveling this month though, I?m looking forward to it. It will be nice to reinvigorate the batteries and get ready for some great things to come in FY?07. It?s surely shaping to be an exciting year.