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Proving that you don't have to be Google to generate frenzied hype around an otherwise staid and – to the layman – obscure tech event, Microsoft has announced that tickets for its annual Build developer conference have sold out. Microsoft's frenzy didn't quite match Google's, however. This year's Google I/O show sold out in …

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  1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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    Uh, boss....

    Haha! Looks like a lot of people rise to the occasion to get out of the office buildings, see new people, get some fresh air and go on VACATION!

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    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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      Re: Uh, boss....

      Woah I got a downvote. Either it's Matt or someone thinks people go on conferences to do actual work.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Microsoft? Selling out?

    Conference?

    I'd rather have a real job thanks.

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  3. Mr Spock

    I told them I'd attend for $2,500

    Looks like I got undercut...

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    So that's where the Surface and Lumias are going.

    We knew they certainly weren't going to consumers. Microsoft are flogging tickets to developer conferences as a stealth way of ditching mountains of unsold stock.

    That and the massive landfill sites outside Chennai and Dongguan.....

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  5. Nolveys
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    If You Don't Like The Surface...

    There's a little booth in the back with a sign that reads "The Windows Experience". There you can trade your Surface in for a bottle of Everclear and four hours with a hermaphroditic prostitute.

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    1. hplasm
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      Re: If You Don't Like The Surface...

      And leave with a nasty infection.

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  6. Fading
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    If we all club together...

    We could get Eadon a ticket - all the anti MS vitriol is probably just sour grapes at missing out..... probably.

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    2. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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      Re: If we all club together...

      He would probably explode like an hexogen-vest laden "black widow", and be totally unspottable at entry control.

      Microsoft partial decapitation strike accomplished!

      We also need an icon of a fluffy cat being stroked.

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    To quote Bill...

    ...there is an A$$ for every seat.

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