HCI2005 International Conference

HCI2005; the first conference I've ever been. So, my criticism here might not be the best source of feedback about it.
First of all, it was not so good organized. Although, all the team of the volunteer students (I was one of them), at least most of them, did the best they could for the conference to run so smoothly. Of course, they did receive the biggest applause at the end; I am so bloody proud of it. The first two days required so much of effort but it was all worth it. All these tutorials and workshops were all so interesting.
Though, I have to say that the worst presentation was the one from ... Microsoft! Well, the worst power-point ever. And of course they presented all the 'new' and 'interesting' things that their research is based on. Wide screens: a project worth so much money, just because it was fun to do it. As the first steps of the research showed that it was not usable at all; there was no point of building a 2m long wide-screen with a 30cm toolbar at the bottom left side of it and icons the top right corner. But obviously they spend some thousand of dollars to implement all that. Plus, the new windows snap-shots. Grouping similar windows as icons on the desktop.. A toolbar almost exactly like the Mac's one. And all these they can't be anything else than new ideas! Yeap.. Sure, whatever you say sir.
The best part was when Ted Nelson said "We are here to talk about HCI (Human Computer Interaction) but actually we are talking about CHI (Computer Human Interaction. We have to change that! The human should be the main subject here and these bloody machines. I'm sure that we all want to make a better world. But do we? Then there is only one thing. Let's throw away everything and start over! It's the only way."
Aaahhh... how many people and especially professionals have forgotten that we design for the people and not for the computers...