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National Australia Bank has signed its first global licensing deal with software giant Microsoft, but CIO Adam Bennett is still shying away from suggestions the bank will move to the new Windows 7 operating system any time soon.

Microsoft Tech-Ed Australia 2009 is underway on the sunny Gold Coast, awash with a sea of HP netbooks given to every paying attendee. Yet not all of the fully sold-out crowd think the gift is so great. One participant is tweeting discontent about budget cuts under the alias teched09sucks.

About 80 people turned up for a Lego building session during a Women in IT session at the TechEd conference being held by Microsoft on the Gold Coast this week.

Enterprises which are gun shy about upgrading their desktop operating systems after the Vista experience should still give Windows 7 a fair hearing according to Kyle Rosenthal, managing director of Spider Consulting.

Office 2010, scheduled for release in the first half of next year, will be the glue that brings millennial generation workers and baby boomers together thanks to its ability to run on three platforms – PCs, phones and browsers, according to software giant Microsoft.

Microsoft’s TechEd 2009 has kicked off with delegates bristling with more technology than usual thanks to the HP mini-notebook preloaded with Windows 7 and Office 2010 that was offered to all full-fee paying attendees.