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In case you missed the announcement at the Microsoft WW Partner Conference last week – the MS Professional Developers Conference (PDC) will be held this year in Redmond on October 28-29. This is the first time the event has been hosted at the mother ship, providing access to the place as well as the...

Here in the Developer & Platform group at Microsoft NZ we’re constantly looking for ways to help and connect with New Zealand technical audiences. One of the best ways is to get out there and meet people which we do through our regular UNPLUGGED sessions around the country – but sometimes we need...

Excellent keynote from Steven Sinofsky opened the morning – how we built Windows 7, what a great story to tell to a room full of developers. Steven showed off a whole pile of new hardware from netbooks to ultra-thin notebooks, server strength workstations and consumer touch screens. He also demonstrated...

A beautiful late autumn day in LA and thousands of developers descend once again on PDC. You may have heard something about cloud computing over the last year or so – well, there’s no escaping the next computing application model here at PDC, on day one anyway. Ray Ozzie kicked off the keynote with the...

Arrived in LA today and ready for a full on PDC week. Stay tuned for updates throughout the week…

I’m looking forward to PDC again this year. Last year was the first time I have had the opportunity to attend and it was a real experience. We unleashed Windows Azure on the world and laid out the Microsoft cloud story, previewed the Office Web Apps plus a whole heap of other things – it was good to...

At PDC 2008 last week, we announced a new way to program Live Services, the Live Framework (in CTP). Check out the overview of Microsoft’s Live Platform Services . On the 8th/9th Dec in Sydney we are holding a 2 day Live Services Jumpstart provides in-depth technical training sessions (level 300...

The final PDC session has just finished and the event comes to an end. There's thousands of people heading to the airport - hopefully with their heads full of ideas and schemes that they will take back to their countries and organisations, where they will be the proponents of the PDC message in their...

Thinking about the cloud So last day at PDC (Thursday) - no big announcements or showcases today. I just went to Gianpaolo Carraro's session on expanding applications to the cloud - a kind of architectural guidance talk which might contextualise cloud computing if you're feeling a little dazed and confused...

Wow! That's all I can say. I've just come out of the Microsoft Research (MSR) keynote given by Rick Rashid at PDC where the attendees were given a tour through some incredible technology innovations. He did a pass through (full details here ): Highlighting the ability to take massive data feeds and make...

It's been a big couple of days here at PDC where we've made some of the biggest announcements in the history of the company. There's plenty of press coverage of the release so I'll give you a high level, personal perspective: Monday 27th of October saw the delivery of the first installment of the embodiment...

Love these online bling badges... So we've arrived in LA. Just checked the PDC website there's been some updates and changes. The good news you'll be able to watch the keynotes live - bad news is they're on about 4.30am NZ time. Spotted a few likely looking attendees around the immediate vicinity - not...

Man - I'm starting to get excited. The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) starts on Monday in LA and Mike Zeff and I are attending to host NZ press and partners. The announcements that will be made next week have been guarded pretty closely, even internally, but over the last few weeks...

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is coming soon. We pretty much only run PDC when we have some big things to talk about...real big things. People talk about the ".NET" PDC and the "Longhorn" PDC and this year will be no different. I think it will go down as the...