The Register®  Original URL:   A non-report from the third and
final day of Microsoft’s BI conference  By Mark Whitehorn
Posted in Developer, 12th May 2007 04:28 GMT   Without prior
warning, at 3:59PM yesterday afternoon, Microsoft announced that
Steve Ballmer’s keynote today was off-limits to journalists:
Photo of empty pressroom  As the deadline for the keynote
approached,  the press room heaved with excitement...  I should
have mentioned this in our meeting that Steve Ballmer’s keynote
address  tomorrow is closed to the press. His keynote address is
geared toward customers and partners only. I apologize for the
inconvenience and for not mentioning this earlier.  Bear in mind
that this is completely without precedent. PR dudes normally go
around the press room with whips before a keynote. The whole
point of inviting journalists to a conference is to have them do
the journaling thing. You don’t then ban them.  Imagine, gentle
reader, that you are a news vulture at the conference. Awoken
from your afternoon