Well, Microsoft have today announced that all paying attendees of Tech.Ed 09 will receive a free HP Mini 2140 netbook as part of their registration. More info, as always, at Jeff Alexander's blog , as well as at ZDNet. 
Unsurprisingly, I think this is a great idea! Not only does it give attendees another great reason to go, but it will let Microsoft possibly cut down on the amount of physical media that they need to provide, as a lot of content can be pre-loaded onto the netbooks. So not only will attendees gain instant access to content from the conference, but it gives us all a chance to go a bit green.
Microsoft will be including a copy of Windows 7 on the device, which will hopefully be the final, RTM code. Again, this will be another great opportunity to get under the hood of the band new OS, which most, if not all, conference attendees will be eagerly awaiting. I've been running both the Beta and RC versions of Win7 for 6 months now, and have been very impressed.
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