Emad Alashi's Blog

During the last quarter of 2011 we have hosted two amazing Jordanian Microsoft guests, Yousef Al Khalidi (Distinguished Engineer), and Ayman Dahleh (Development Manager for the Global Experience Platform group), who happened to be having their vacation here, they generously accepted our invitation to deliver sessions here in Jordan despite their busy times.

The community recorded these two inspiring interviews with our guests through which I can see how close achievements can be.

A big thank-you to Mr. Yousef and Mr. Ayman for their availability, and thanks to our DPE at the time Mohammad Arrabi for giving us this opportunity to meet such great people, and thanks to our community member Mosab for making these videos.

Couple of days ago I tried a key I acquired from Microsoft MSDN subscription to activate an Office installation, the activation didn’t work for some reason, so I filed a ticket, and I thought to myself “Oh great! now I will have to wait for ages until such large corporate like Microsoft would answer my ticket!”

And less than 48 hours, I don’t receive an email, but my phone rings! The guy on the phone answers my inquiry and makes sure I am answered.
Considering how large this corporate is and the number of its clients, this is really amazing!

So if you are a startup, or a growing business, please keep this in mind; don’t give excuses to yourself for a low quality of service due to your growing business.

Good job on this Microsoft.

And it’s over, the Microsoft Open Door event is behind us now, and so was my presentation about HTML5 and IE; all praise to god, the feedback was great and I am humbled by the nice compliments.
If you were among the audience and you have any comment, question, or critique, you are most welcome to contact me anytime.

Below is the presentation slides as I promised:

I will be speaking at this year’s Microsoft event Open Door; the session will be about HTML5 & IE, including highlights on the main new specifications for HTML5, and how Microsoft is approaching it through IE and some of the dev tools.
It will be on Day 2, Track 3, at 3:00 PM.

Check the event details and agenda here, catch you there hopefully.