Please read the first 6 lines in paragraph 1. (This past May Day in UK was a rare day to catch up on gardening and other household tasks for the always-busy Ed Baker, technical evangelist at Microsoft UK. But sitting in his home office in between sporadic rainfalls, he was already looking ahead to the meetings, events and keynotes set for the coming weeks. Were it not a public holiday, he would, from the same base of operations, be fielding calls with clients assisting with higher-level technical development and deployment for Microsoft products—and he would undoubtedly have his webcam on. )