PDC 2008 – Day 1 Wrap Up – Videos, Fact Sheets, Channel 9 Videos, and Speech Transcripts - Ryan Storgaard's Blog - Site Home

Wow. What a day! I’ve attempted to pull together a summary of materials and videos from Day 1. I’m now in the keynote for Day 2 so will have more later on that later.

Fact Sheets – Live Services, Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure, .NET 4.0 and “Dublin”, Oslo, SQL Data Services, Sql Server

Live Services Fact Sheet (.doc file, 36 KB)
Azure Services Platform Fact Sheet (.doc file, 40 KB)
Windows Azure Fact Sheet (.doc file, 33 KB)
Windows Communication Foundation 4.0, Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 and Windows Server “Dublin” - Fact Sheet (.doc file, 73 KB)
Oslo Fact Sheet (.doc file, 40 KB)
Microsoft SQL Data Services Fact Sheet (.doc file, 41 KB)
SQL Server – Developer Focus (.doc file, 33 KB)

PDC 2008 Day 1 Videos

On-Demand PDC 2008 Keynote: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia, and David Thompson (01:38:30)
Microsoft chief technology officer Ray Ozzie introduced Windows Azure, the 'Windows in the cloud' service foundation underlying the Azure Services Platform, Microsoft's end-to-end software-plus-services approach to computing. Los Angeles, Oct. 27, 2008

Clips from the day 1 keynote

Introducing Windows Azure
Ray Ozzie introduces the new Windows Azure platform and discusses how it’s key to the future of cloud computing and software plus services.

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Key Features of Windows Azure
Ray Ozzie provides an overview of Windows Azure and the key benefits it brings to cloud computing.

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Key Services of Azure & cloud functionality
Ray Ozzie discusses some of the key services that make up the Azure Services Platform, including the new .NET Services and SQL Services.

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Windows Azure and Developers
Bob Muglia talks about the relationship between .NET Services and Windows Azure.

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Walid Abu-Hadba: The Developer Opportunity (02:05)
The Corporate Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism on the PDC, customer and developer choice and the Azure Services Platform.
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Bob Muglia discusses Microsoft’s Services Platform (01:24)
Bob Muglia, Sr Vice President of Server and Tools Business, discusses Microsoft’s next generation Services Platform.
Show Off Contest Video 1 - ACE Lab
Developers from around the world showed off their coding, soldering, hacking and sculpting skills for the Professional Developers Conference 2008 show off contest – here are some of our favorites.
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Show Off Contest Video 2 - Brian the Build Bunny
Developers from around the world showed off their coding, soldering, hacking and sculpting skills for the Professional Developers Conference 2008 show off contest – here are some of our favorites.
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Show Off Contest Video 3 - Silverlight 2 Spectrum Emulator
Developers from around the world showed off their coding, soldering, hacking and sculpting skills for the Professional Developers Conference 2008 show off contest – here are some of our favorites.
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Azure Customer Video (03:03)
Sentient, Full Armor, Lake Quincy Media and others discuss the opportunities possible through the Azure Services Platform.

Channel 9 Interviews

Speech Transcripts

Professional Developers Conference 2008 Day 1 Keynote: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia, Dave Thompson
Remarks by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, Corporate Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Amitabh Srivastava; Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business, Bob Muglia; Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Online, Dave Thompson. Oct. 27, 2008, Los Angeles