The Microsoft company-wide annual meeting was held at the McCaw Hall in Seattle Center today. Since there were a limited number of seats available, tickets were collected and ID badges were verified at the door (as well as a check for cameras, as is common with most conferences/meetings of this size). Rip and tear tickets? Naw – the McCaw Hall uses a bar code scanner that to verify a ticket, and in that scanner is a Palm III device.

Nice to know they’re good for something, besides just pretending to be a coaster.