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If you are a Microsoft hardware partner, you may already know that registration is now open for WinHEC 2006, May 23-25, 2006, in Seattle. The theme this year is “Advancing The Platform,” and with Windows Vista launching later this year, this will be a great chance to learn more about the core OS architecture.

If you’ve attended a WinHEC in the past, you know that this is one of the technical events to attend, as many representatives from across the Microsoft product teams attend the sessions. And if you can’t make it in person, after the conference you’ll find (as is available from WinHEC 2005) many of the presentations, Bill Gates’ keynote and audio recordings of the sessions posted online.

When I find a great book I either send people a review and link to the book. Sometimes I’ve gone as far as to buy a copy and ciculate it around to people I think would find it of interest.

This is one I’m buying in bulk.

SATISFACTION: How Every Great Company Listens to the Voice of the Customer by James (J D) Power and Chris Denove should be standard primer for everyone interacting with a customer or partner. Period.

Bill Gates’ live kenote webcast is on now, straight from the RSA conference in San Jose. (This and other webcasts from him can be found here.)

Steve Ballmer’s webcast keynote from the 3GSM conference in Barcelona is available on line now. I wasn’t up for this one, so having access to the time-shifted video is great.

Tags: RSA 2006, webcasts, smartphones, mobile phones, 3GSM.

So even if I can’t be in Barcelona for 3GSM, I have resolved to read the PR feeds.

From the Microsoft 3GSM Virtual Pressroom today Microsoft announced that there will soon be Windows Mobile-Based Smartphones running on low-cost processors. In this case, it’s TI’s OMAPV1030 EDGE chipset: from the PR…

“These phones will be based on a lower-cost, high-performance chipset architecture for Windows Mobile device-makers, previously only available for feature phones. Until now, many smartphones running on a high-level operating system such as Microsoft® Windows Mobile necessitated a more expensive dual-core chipset to power the rich user interface, data networking and additional personal and business applications.”

Even better: “Availability of these handsets is expected within 12 months.”

Tags: Windows Mobile, omapv1030, smartphones, mobile phones, 3GSM.