Today is my last full day here in Los Angeles at PDC 2005. I didn’t make it to the keynote this morning, but instead spent the day in the Product Pavilion and the track lounge. I was able to chat with quite a few customers as we finally gave away our...

As usual, the PDC started with keynotes today. The morning started with Eric Rudder and David Treadwell talking about Windows WorkFlow Foundation followed by Steven Sinofsky talking about the new developer features in Office 12. Both presentations went...

The following Windows Vista Development forums are now live on http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ Data Access, Storage, Search and Organize in Windows Vista http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=113 Mobile PC and Tablet PC Development...

It’s already Tuesday, the official first day of the PDC. I started the day with a nice 20 minute walk from my hotel to the LACC. I arrived at 7:30 am and there was already a line waiting to get into the keynote hall. The organizers ushered all the...

Yesterday we had tri-athletes and movie crews closing streets and snarling traffic in and around the convention center in LA. Today it was a power outage that apparently affected nearly the entire LA basin that managed to do the same. According to the...

Getting up at 5am this morning made me realize that the long days of Summer are just about over; it was dark out and it was raining. Ick. It only took about 20 minutes to drive to the Seattle-Tacoma (SeaTac) International Airport at that early hour of...

On Sunday morning I leave for Los Angeles and the PDC. It's going to be a great conference and I look forward to meeting many of you there. The SDK team will be holding a "Meet the SDK Team" gathering at the Tools and Languages Track Lounge on Tuesday...