Quite honestly, spending most of my time deep in the innards of the kernel file system stack, I wasn't entirely convinced that WinHEC would have a lot of relevant information to offer - boy, was I wrong! As a matter of fact, WinHEC provided so much info that, for the sake of brevity, I am "forced...

The WinHEC conference is wrapping up this afternoon. The conference has been a well-oiled machine, a tribute to our colleagues that run the event. A few trends that I've observed this week: Power management is on everyone's mind. Consumers are willing to pay more for a laptop that has great battery...

Bill Laing just completed his day two keynote presentation, focusing on key technology updates and improvements coming in Windows Server 2008 R2. Not suprisingly, there was a strong emphasis on Hyper-V (Bill was presented his own "can" of Hyper-V near the end of the presentation... He indicated that...

Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan just wrapped up their keynote presentation. There were some impressive demos showing off the new Device Experience Platform. Judging by crowd reaction to the demos, device staging will be one of the most exciting new features in Windows 7. Aptly, Jon focused his attention...

In case you are one of the lucky ones who will be going to WinHEC next week, be sure to look for people wearing these name badges: Keith Boyd , our new WDK Senior Content Publishing Manager (the boss) John Jackson , Senior Programming Writer (specialist in Virtual Machines and User Mode Display...