{"id":4613,"date":"2007-04-05T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-09-20T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:36:06","slug":"longhorn-and-vista-sightings-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/longhorn-and-vista-sightings-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Longhorn and Vista sightings in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"
I spent Monday and Tuesday in Austin, TX for meetings with counterparts at Dell and AMD. Doing these meeting back-to-back is much easier now than last year due to these two companies working together<\/a>. The drive on IH\u00a035\u00a0between the two headquarters is only\u00a035 minutes\u00a0–\u00a0on a good day I’m told.<\/p>\n One of the entertaining moments in Austin was the cab ride after dinner. Now, this isn’t the first time I’ve ridden with a technically astute cab<\/a> driver; but it is the first cab driver that I’ve seen with a mounted tablet PC running Windows Vista. Our driver tracked fares with an app and ink, and ran “Street & Trips” to find best routes and destinations. My colleagues and I were impressed. Here’s a couple photos.<\/p>\n The next entertaining moment came at AMD headquarters. We were talking Longhorn Server, virtualization and\u00a0Barcelona<\/a>, the\u00a0forthcoming AMD quad-core processor. AMD’s HQ is located in the farm lands. Last time I was there, I was on a conference call in the parking lot, 20 yards away from a head of cattle in a holding pen. But this time, after a productive meeting talking about Longhorn, I was driving out of the parking lot when I saw the real deal. A Longhorn steer grazing right near the parking lot … away from his friends. Given the focus of the meeting, I thought it was good karma to snap a photo here, too (from the car in case of a quick getaway).<\/p>\n Too bad I didn’t run into\u00a0the one (University of Texas)\u00a0Longhorn I really\u00a0wanted to meet, Kevin Durant<\/a>. Turns out he was\u00a0watching the Spurs<\/a> beat up the Sonics in San Antonio.\u00a0\u00a0The way the Sonics are losing this year,\u00a0Durant may be coming to Seattle next year to turn the team around.<\/p>\n Patrick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent Monday and Tuesday in Austin, TX for meetings with counterparts at Dell and AMD. Doing these meeting back-to-back is much easier now than last year due to these two companies working together. The drive on IH\u00a035\u00a0between the two headquarters is only\u00a035 minutes\u00a0–\u00a0on a good day I’m told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":20647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"msxcm_post_with_no_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"post_tag":[8,23],"product":[],"content-type":[],"solution":[],"coauthors":[926],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-longhorn","tag-windows-server","review-flag-1593580414-127"],"yoast_head":"\n