Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, Vice President of the .NET Developer Platform Scott Guthrie and Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch will kickoff the sold out MIX08 agenda with a keynote at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, March 5th. The focus is Microsoft's continued investment across the platform to deliver world class Web technologies and tools. The keynote will be streamed live from www.visitmix.com.

In part one of this two-part interview, Scott Guthrie gives a preview of the technology that will be discussed at MIX. Scott talks about IIS 7.0 for developers, how they've improved hosting scalability, improvements to configuration management and deployment with the recent release of Web Deployment project tools, and the improvements to production debugging and instrumentation.