PDC 2005

From the Big Room on 9/14/05

This is a fun one. We played this to the crowd at the PDC before Eric Rudder's keynote. We did it as a thank you to all of you who come here and make Channel 9 a fun place to hang out. Sorry, the download is not available for this one. Music by Michael Lehman. Video length: 00:02:28.  Here's…

There are three segments to this walkthrough the PDC. We walk from one end of the PDC hall to the other. We start out behind the scenes. We run into Microsoft execs and Tantek Celik (CTO at Technorati). Oh the fun and the FOOD! This was filmed Wednesday night. Gives you a good idea of what the…

Scott Isaacs is one of the inventors of DHTML. He is one of Microsoft's smartest Web developers and built a framework that's being used on Start.com, the future Hotmail, and other places like the new gadgets in Windows Vista. Hope you enjoy meeting Scott, sorry for the bad lighting at the…

What happens when an application crashes? Watson collects data and lets users send that in to Microsoft for analysis. Here you get to meet Kirk and Mike, two of the guys on that team and they talk about changes coming in Windows Vista.

As part of our journey around Windows Vista teams, we wondered what was being done to Outlook Express. Well, for Windows Vista it's been renamed to Windows Mail. And that's not all.

We did a hand recording of Raymond Chen's presentation yesterday at the PDC. Sorry for the shaky cam, we didn't have our tripod, but we had a few requests from Channel 9'ers to record this (it'll be our only actual PDC session recording).

Paul and Erik talk about what they presented this week at the PDC: Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic.

Here Paul and Amanda talk about the future of Visual Basic.

There's a ton of new things in Internet Explorer 7.0 that'll improve your security. Meet the IE team and learn what they are doing to protect computer users against phishing and malware and other kinds of attacks. For more about IE 7.0, visit the IE team's blog.The interviewer here is Joshua…