As I got caught up on the activities here at the PDC in Los Angeles, I fell off the wagon of posting about what has gone on.  Overall it was a good event, but there weren’t a ton of surprises.  As I write this I am listening to Michael Howard explain the updated threat modeling thinking that sounds quite good.  The push in threat modeling is to make it accessible to developers who aren’t security gurus.  This is a good goal because I can count on one hand the number of clients that I have visited that actually do real threat modeling.  As the tools do more and more for us, this is the high value, non automatable activities that we need to see more in the enterprise.

This shows that MS is making a push on all fronts.  There isn’t any complacency that I can find, though occasionally there is some confusion.

I have heard over and over again from people that you just can’t keep your hands in everything anymore.  The number of products coming out based on the announcements here this week alone bring this point home.  Lets hope that it doesn’t go so far that we ever get to the point where someone narrows their focus so much that they decide to become experts specializing in the File Menu of Word (and all 3487 entries and shortcuts in that menu)…