It also had the snapshot CDrom that contained the desktop software. No shortage of reading material, I'm still going through it and probably will for some time. There were many technical sessions as well as a demo room. I won't go through all of the stuff, but will give a summary of what the CDE Desktop contains. Users can create and switch between workspaces by pushing buttons located in the center of the front-panel.
Users can also specify what Workspaces they wish a window to appear in.
Its pretty good, and allows you to avoid the hell of window clutter. The front panel controls are highly customizable, and can be accomplished by mortals. The way that you add a new application to your panel is to find the executable in the file manager, drag it into the user-applications panel and drop it in. My only complaint about the front-panel is that I wish they could alter the panels depending on what workspace you're in. But what they've provided is a big step forward from MWM alone.