Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - New PDC announced http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - New PDC announced http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Thu, 23 May 2013 23:05:56 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 23:05:56 GMT Rev9 34 -34 -1 Coffeehouse - New PDC announced Is this a first? A major company leaking an announcement to a blogger? Jim McKeeth got the first notice that there'll be a Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference in 2005.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30468-New-PDC-announced/30468#30468 Wed, 08 Dec 2004 17:22:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30468-New-PDC-announced/30468#30468 The Channel 9 Team 34 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/The Channel 9 Team/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - New PDC announced Awesome!! Too bad I don't live in LA anymore. But it's still awesome! I'm keen on knowing where Longhorn's at, since the last PDC.

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He works just down the hall, so we talk often. He's a really nice guy and is working hard at planning a good show.

I'll make sure he sees this thread, so if you have any great ideas, post them here!

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Zeo wrote:
MS. Scoble,


Looks like you wrote "Ms. Scoble" rather than
Microsoft. Scoble,



Jokes are great Smiley,
Loadsgood.

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Which means beta 1 in Feb 2005.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30468-New-PDC-announced/dd66c383645a41d98a2a9dea013712da#dd66c383645a41d98a2a9dea013712da Thu, 09 Dec 2004 08:07:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30468-New-PDC-announced/dd66c383645a41d98a2a9dea013712da#dd66c383645a41d98a2a9dea013712da Jaz 34 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Jaz/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - New PDC announced Hopefully this will co-incide with the release for Yukon and Whidbey and betas of Indigo and Avalon for XP.

If you were only able to attend either TECHED USA or PDC. which one would you pick and why?. Has anyone done both and how do they compare?

Thanks

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richy_roo wrote:
Hopefully this will co-incide with the release for Yukon and Whidbey and betas of Indigo and Avalon for XP.


While we're are it, let's hope that you don't need an MSDN Universal subscription to get the Indigo and Avalon betas!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30468-New-PDC-announced/b6a2997cb8544e0ba9439dea0137137a#b6a2997cb8544e0ba9439dea0137137a Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:17:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30468-New-PDC-announced/b6a2997cb8544e0ba9439dea0137137a#b6a2997cb8544e0ba9439dea0137137a Christian Liensberger 34 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - New PDC announced Well from what I understood from Paul Thurrott the first beta is supposed to come out in the middle of feb. 2005 so i suppose the secound beta will be ready for the PDC by the way it is possible to download the early versions of indigo and avalon  for XP at msdn.microsoft.com (of course if you are subscribed)

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I suspect that Microsoft would of course want to give XP 64 some time to be promoted before they start talking about Longhorn fully. WinHec in May 2005 will be the time to announce Longhorn, and talk about the beta being made available to testers in June of 2005.

Trust me on this one, June 2005 is Beta 1 for Longhorn.

I also read that Mile Stone 9 which is the last one for Longhorn Alpha will be March 2005.

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PS. I loved the Snickers Ice Cream bar snacks!  Yum.

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Wow, that pushes it out a bit.
Any thoughts on beta 2?

I am thinking Dec 2005 or Feb-Mar 2006.
Which means GA in November 2006 or Jan 2007.

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Scoble, I would love to have a channel9 video interview with the team that's in charge of PDC to hear about how their trying to make it better than the last. Do they have a blog somewhere?

[Edit fixed the spacing so it wouldn't look like MS.Scoble]

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A bit to far though to travel for a non-employed developer.

Will there ever be this kind of developer conference in Sweden?

/Marcus

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1) Given the massive amount of coordination between various MS platforms(Longhorn, Yukon, Whidbey, Tablet PC) needed before planning a PDC, and with so much not yet completely developed, how are you able to plan this far in advance?

2) Given the intensive amount of material being presented during a PDC, what is the event team doing to make being an attendee more manageable(last PDC due to scheduling conflicts Jim Alchin gave every attendee a DVD containing 50 of the most popular sessions) how are you approaching this dilemma/problem?

3) At PDC 2003 blogging was the rage. Everywhere I looked I saw people wearing shirts saying, "I'm blogging this", what are your thoughts on enabling blogging before and during the PDC 2005.

4) PDC is incredible, almost every geek at Microsoft is out talking with people, so what's the worst logistical nightmare you've dealt with in past PDCs and what makes executing a PDC challenging/exciting?

5) Given the timeframe of big product releases such as Whidbey, betas of Longhorn, X-box2, Windows Mobile 2006, what will the PDC 2005 wow factors be, besides great content and access to Microsoft deliver, what's the developing story for PDC-->How will you surpass the unveiling of Longhorn at PDC 2003? Plus will PDC 2005 have any jabs at apple, like apple had between Microsoft Longhorn and Apple’s Tiger (for example: get your photocopiers ready)

 

Just thought of another question
6) What's the budget around swag giveaways for a PDC, i.e. how many free t-shirts are  you expecting to give away? 
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richy_roo wrote:
Hopefully this will co-incide with the release for Yukon and Whidbey and betas of Indigo and Avalon for XP.


If we haven't shipped by then I think I'll go insane.

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Sure development and documentation should be done, but all of the labs, websites, tools, and tips and tricks need alot more time to bake.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30468-New-PDC-announced/08be7ff008c64f1b839a9dea01371503#08be7ff008c64f1b839a9dea01371503 Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:13:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30468-New-PDC-announced/08be7ff008c64f1b839a9dea01371503#08be7ff008c64f1b839a9dea01371503 Zeo 34 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Zeo/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - New PDC announced Well, it is expected that March would be the release time frame for XP 64 and PDC 2005 isn't until September 2005, thats a big gap in between March and September to promote the product (5-6 months). Visual Studio 2005 would be expected 2 months later after XP 64 which would give Microsoft some time to show off some of the new 64 bit capabilities.That would leave little for the company to talk about the product at PDC '05 and most of interest on Longhorn.

Pocket XP, its not impossible for Microsoft to surprise us and release the beta 1 for Longhorn September 2005 to coincide with PDC 2005. This would further push beta 2 out to February or March 2006 or earlier if they have progress which can result in a short beta.

Sticking to my original prediction (June 2005), I suspect that a beta 2 would come in January 2006 and could possibly push the final release out to November 2006 if you take into account release candidates.

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Dr. Shim wrote:

While we're are it, let's hope that you don't need an MSDN Universal subscription to get the Indigo and Avalon betas!


I should hope not, seeing as how you don't need one for the the VS.Net 2005 beta, Avalon CTP or the Longhorn preview builds.

MSDN Pro is enough to give you access to them.

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As per you and Zeo, here is a possible timeline:

 1/2005
 2/2005
 3/2005 - XP 64 / Longhorn Alpha : Milestone 9
 4/2005
 5/2005 - Yukon / Visual Studio 2005
 6/2005 - Longhorn Beta 1
 7/2005
 8/2005
 9/2005 - PDC 2005 / Longhorn Beta 1.1
10/2005
11/2005
12/2005

 1/2006 - Longhorn Beta 2
 2/2006
 3/2006
 4/2006 - Longhorn RC1
 5/2006
 6/2006 - Windows Mobile 2006
 7/2006 - Longhorn RC2
 8/2006
 9/2006
10/2006 - Longhorn RTM
11/2006 - Longhorn GA
12/2006 - XBox2

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Does anyone now when we can expect to see Tablet XP 64?



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--Mike, LA resident

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I personally think Microsoft has held some nice info or feature of Longhorn from the general public and will use that to mesmerize everyone at PDC. I hope its "Guess what, we have Longhorn ready, here, take your copy." ... sigh ... I know, I know.

Anyways, so if they are working on Beta 1 right now, it doesn't seem impossible to get out a Beta to the PDC goers in almost 10 months.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30468-New-PDC-announced/9f475af8db884e6392cd9dea01371625#9f475af8db884e6392cd9dea01371625 Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:19:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30468-New-PDC-announced/9f475af8db884e6392cd9dea01371625#9f475af8db884e6392cd9dea01371625 Andre Da Costa 34 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Andre Da Costa/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - New PDC announced So we can hope to see a new build of Longhorn around the WinHEC? One year later.

Well for me, as long as I can get the beta as soon as possible it's ok for me.I don't care 1 ou 2 month of more wathing....

Anyway, what can we do to help MS doing it more quickly?

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The 2003 PDC was my 5th PDC.  I'm usually pretty hard core about absorbing as much as I can but the 2003 PDC pushed me to my limits


Thanks for the feedback. Some quick responses: we do think about the attendee "load", and loved hearing your specific suggestions... keep 'em coming.

We thought long and hard about scheduling sessions over lunch, and in the end decided on a limited number of shorter sessions, which were also repeated a number of times throughout the week so that you'd never have to choose between lunch and a session. (Lunch is very important to me Smiley

Re: WiFi: oh boy. 802.11b just sucks in this regard... it's pretty much the defacto standard but it also can't handle the density we see at the event. We explicitly decided, for instance, to not try to provide coverage in the keynote hall. Access Points are getting better every year but it's definitely incremental. That's why we also provided so many wired ports.

Question: how often did your laptop run out of juice?

Re: mail system... did you check out the "Vibe!" application? The idea is that you could "opt in" to be found by others. But this is not a new problem, and there are a number of existing solutions out there. Yes, we want to do better here.

Please keep the ideas coming...

- Steve

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k000der wrote:

I understand that it's too early to say what registration fee is gonna be, but does anyone have any idea what it was the last time ? I have a feeling that it was between 1500 - 2000 USD (PDC03), am I right ? 


The full-price registration fee will almost definitely be the same as last time ($1995).

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Zeo wrote:


2) Given the intensive amount of material being presented during a PDC, what is the event team doing to make being an attendee more manageable(last PDC due to scheduling conflicts Jim Alchin gave every attendee a DVD containing 50 of the most popular sessions) how are you approaching this dilemma/problem?


This is something we talk about quite a bit, actually. I'd love to hear specific suggestions about what we could do here. On the one hand, it's pretty much a goal to provide as much content/info/community opportunity as possible, to make the event memorable. Of course, on the other hand, if one's head explodes during a keynote on Day 3, then you can't remember anything at all... Smiley

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