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Making History. Again. PDC Heads to Redmond.

Just announced, Microsoft welcomes the next Professional Developers Conference (PDC) to be held for the first time at their corporate headquarters in Redmond, WA, on October 28 and 29, ...

PDC09 Says Hello World

Come and get it!  Scheduled for November 17-19, 2009, in Los Angeles, Microsoft's coolest developer event, the Professional Developers Conference, is officially open for busines.  Regis...

Supplement your PDC2008 Experience

Supplement your PDC online or in-person experience by joining local and Microsoft Corporation subject matter experts for a 1-day MSDN Developer Conference held in one of 11 U.S. cities. Choose 4 sessi...

Put the PDC in your pocket!

Go to: http://m.microsoftpdc.com/ for the PDC mobile experience....

Rick Rashid: A Researchers Researcher

Countdown to PDC2008:  17 years in the same job?  Yep, Senior Vice President of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid has been doing the same thing since the first day he joined the firm, and hes ...

The Devils Field Guide to the PDC2008

The long awaited The Devils Field Guide to the PDC is the ultimate insiders guide to having the best PDC experience ever.  It answers questions that attendees of any type of large Microsoft confe...

L.A. Insights: Music Highlights during PDC

The Los Angeles music scene may not be as cohesive as when jazz clubs lined Central Avenue in the 1940s or when Axl and friends emerged as the kings of the Sunset Strip in the 1980s but there are alw...

Parallel Computing at Microsoft

The manycore shift provides exciting opportunities for developers to create innovative natural and immersive computing experiences that harness the performance power of multi- and manycore processors....

Sneak Peak at Live Platform Services

Countdown to PDC2008:  What are the platform infrastructure details behind the Mesh technologies?  Corporate Vice President of Live Platform Services, David Treadwell, will be spilling all t...

King of the Geeks, Scott Guthrie, Previews PDC Keynote

Countdown to PDC2008:  As Corporate Vice President of the .NET Developer Division, Scott will be giving a talk on client development covering both Silverlight and WPF at the PDC.  What else ...

PDC Buzz is amping up on the Blogosphere

Things are heating up a bit.  Have you heard the latest buzz on the blogosphere re: PDC2008?  "By the time we finish our PDC, nobody out there with as wider range of Cloud Computing service...

Still waiting to get clearance to attend PDC?

Use the Letter to Your Boss to explain how this is not the typical conference that is more boondoggle than substance. The PDC is where the best and brightest come together with the technical geni...

Prepare for PDC2008 with Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9

All week long the Channel 9 team will be bringing you demonstrations of Visual Studio Team System 2010 along with in-depth interviews with the product team.  Click here to read about al...

Symposia at PDC: Parallel Computing and Getting Your Head in the Cloud

Countdown to PDC2008:  The chair of the PDC Symposia joins Mike and Jennifer this week to talk about the detailed workshops that will be offered on the last day of the conference.  Parallel ...

Daylines Exclusive Interview with the Brain in the Jar

Learn where the brain has been since PDC05 in this exclusive interview with Tina Wood.  Discover what the brain likes to do when not developing software; why a jar and if it is a mascot for ...

Four New Keynote Speakers Announced

In our first keynote at PDC2008 Ray Ozzie will talk about the new world of Software Plus Services, with Bob Muglia joining him, to unveil our new Cloud Computing platform. In a second keynote, Ray wil...

Announcing Two Symposia at PDC2008

Each symposium consists of three related sessions on the last day of PDC, and they provide much more detail about two key topics covered throughout PDC.  A Parallel Computing symposium extends th...

PDC2008 Comes Complete with a Hard Drive Chock Full oBits-a PDC Attendees Dream Come True!

Countdown to PDC2008:  Maybe weve been a little too tight lipped about what were going to announce at the PDC this year.  Weve dropped a few hints with some of our recent guests on the show ...

Extending the Data Platform to the Cloud

Countdown to PDC2008:  Dave Campbell, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and SQL Server guru, talks about what his group has been working on and what they will be unveiling at the PDC. Dave is giv...

Did somebody say Agile PreCon at PDC?

When Dilbert talks about being "Agile," you know it has become main stream. This is also evident from the increased adoption of agile techniques and practices in the software development industry. M...

The Brain gets more the clever

Earlier we told you about the brain you could ask questions and get PDC answers from....well the brain is learning and getting more clever. Go out to: http://www.askthebrain.net/ and pose a new q...

Buzz on the Blogosphere: PDC is the end of the beginning and where the real journey starts.

Mary-Jo Foley, one of the most viewed bloggers in the IT industry, dedicated two blog posts to discuss Live Mesh and Oslo in the last week.  Mary-Jo is also connecting dots with the new sessions ...

More Sessions Announced!

We just published over 50 new sessions on our way to over 200 total sessions at the main event in October. Hear how the NBC Olympics site was built and about lessons learned. Learn whats in store for ...

Session Update Coming and Early Bird Discount Ends Soon

This week's Countdown to PDC reveals a little more than before.  Leaking a little bit about the upcoming session update next week.  Surface, SharePoint, Live Platform, Identity, Mesh, SQL Se...

Of the Developer, For the Developer, By the Developer = Don Box and Chris Anderson

Countdown to PDC2008:  Clothing optional keynotes, comparisons to the pains of childbirth, the joys of sharing an office, how to give a 90 minute speech minus PowerPoint and only writing 130 line...

All Eyes on the Engineering Windows 7 Blog and more from the Blogosphere

Yes. The Engineering Windows 7 blog is getting a lot of attention.  Robert Scoble blogged about some organizational changes in the Windows Client team that could positively impact Windows 7. He a...

Windows Home Server Filling the Gap for Services in the Home

Not every service in "software + services" will run in an Internet datacenter.  The Windows Home Server team believes that some services should "stay at home."  Want an example?  Ho...

Buzz on the Blogosphere: Submit a Session, What are the Tracks and more....

Mike Swanson highlights the top 3 questions he gets as the PDC Content Owner. Spoiler alert.  They are:  How do I submit a session, how do I become a speaker and what are this year's tracks?...

Pick Your Sessions, Build Your Agenda and Win a Trip

Countdown to PDC2008:  In this weeks edition of the PDC Countdown (only 65 days to go), Mike and Jennifer host the event marketing manager of the conference who talks about all of the great oppor...

Early Bird Discount Extended

Due to popular demand, the PDC2008 Early Bird Discount has been extended three weeks. If you register by 11:59 PM, Monday, September 8th, you will save $200 off the Full Conference Regi...

New PDC Contests = Fun and Prizes

We wanted to get your PDC2008 creative juices flowing with two new contests. Capture the meaning of PDC and submit an original PDC t-shirt design. The winner will get the joy of seeing every...

Buzz on the Blogsphere

Noise is elevating with the posting of new sessions on August 1st.  Brad Abrams highlights sessions and invites feedback.  Taylor Brown wrote about Hyper-V's PDC representation. Da...

LA Insights: Exploring the New Hollywood

The Hollywood neighborhood used to be a seedy and occasionally dangerous backwater, the kind of place where You better hope you dont run out of gas, as Ry Cooder sang in 1979. (Think of where Richard ...

Discount Ends Soon

The $200 PDC2008 Early Bird discount ends in 11 short days. Register now and apply that savings towards a Pre-Conference Session, cool trip to and L.A. ice cream spot and other yet-to-be-rev...

Countdown to PDC2008: Content be King

50 new sessions with abstracts announced!  Pre-conference workshop popularity soars, Show Off contest launches, microwaves and the e-mail address direct to the content czars inner circle revealed...

We Just Doubled our Published Sessions

We did a left shift on our published session count today, and we now have twice the geeky goodness for you to consume. Youll find new sessions on Oslo, including one by the ever-popular Don Box and Ch...

Fun Fact Friday: I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream!

Los Angeles is a great ice cream town.  While there are no shortage of Cold Stone Creameries here in fact, theres a convenient downtown location at 9th St. and Flower, near the Ralphs grocery st...

C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team

What's the C# team up to these days? Who's on the C# 4.0 design team, anyway? Charles Torre discovers what Anders et al are working on to get a clear sense of C#'s near (and not-so-near) future during...

Turning Ideas Into Reality at PDC with Rick Rashid

Rick Rashid, Vice President of Microsoft Research, will keynote at PDC2008.  Microsoft Research (MSR) is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software e...

Countdown To PDC2008 : Producing a Ginormous Conference in 10 Minutes or Less

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Countdown to PDC, where Jennifer Ritzinger, the PDC2008 Event Owner, and Mike Swanson, the PDC2008 Content Owner, share updates and behind-the-scenes stories about ...

PDC on the Blogsphere

The buzz is abounding.  First around cloud computing.  Worker Threads Derek has noticed the interest as has Ubrgeek. Interest in the future of programming languages dominated the conversatio...

Avoid Traffic and Explore Your L.A. Options

Explore L.A. Metro options for getting around.  Avoid traffic by taking the metro to the Sunset Strip.  Well provide shuttles from the conference hotels to-and-from the L.A. Convention Cente...

PDC Attendee Tips from the Blogsphere

Buzz on the Blogsphere (June 30th): Enjoy this humorous detailed post from Zach Bohham giving tips for attending PDC. We've taken the liberty to add a few notes/links to his list:1.  PDC se...

New Sessions Published

Just revealed: the second set of 16 sessions on our monthly countdown to PDC2008! Among them is a presentation by Microsoft Technical Fellow and C# Chief Architect, Anders Hejlsberg, on The Future of ...

PDC Lounge Lizards

PDC2008 is building lots of opportunties to network during the event, but the doors to the LA Convention Center do close nightly. Where will you debrief from the news of Windows 7, Live Mesh, cloud se...

PDC Buzz on the Blogsphere

PDC is about the future and is the event to attend.  Just read what Jon Box says, "In my opinion, if I was going to choose one technical event to attend in any year, my first choice will &n...

Ray Ozzie to Keynote PDC2008

Microsoft Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, will be delivering one of the keynote speeches at this years PDC. Some of you might remember that Ray shared a few thoughts about the future of the Platf...

Preliminary Sessions Announced

Weve published a preliminary list of representative sessions that only hints at the 160+ sessions well cover at PDC2008. Initial topics include software plus services, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, a de...

PDC2008

Announcing PDC2008 PDC2008 will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center Monday, October 27 through Thursday, October 30, 2008.  Pre-Conference Sessions will take place on Sunday, October ...

PDC08 Is Here!

Save the Date! Announcing PDC08 October 2730, 2008Pre-conference October 26, 2008Los Angeles, California OK, OK. We are delighted to announce the date and location of the next Microsoft Professional D...

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