PDC 2005

Hi there and welcome to PDC05 Buzzcast #17. I'm your host Michael Lehman and we're only two days away from the offical opening of PDC05 here in Los Angeles. This buzzcast explains that I'll be around the PDC keynotes, breakout sessions, BOFs, Ask-the-Experts and Track Lounges starting Tuesday…

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).

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…

This is Larry Osterman's long-kept secret. The audio stack in Windows Vista has been completely rewritten so we can have cool things like per-app audio control. Anyway, Steve Ball talks to us about what the team has been working on and gives us some demos and introduces us to the team, including…

Dr. Lehman sits down with the venerable Jeremy Mazner to discuss life as the PDC05 content owner ( Translation:PDC05's GREAT content is Jeremy's fault )Enjoy!

Microsoft, today, at the PDC, announced Microsoft Expression, which is a suite of three applications to help you build Web sites and new kinds of Windows applications.Here we meet the Expression Interactive Designer team last week as they were having a late-night pizza dinner (code-named…

Chris Jones, corporate vice president on the Windows team, sits down with Jeremy Mazner to talk about what developers need to do to make a great Windows Vista application. Video length: 45:02.

Kam Vedbrat is a lead program manager on the AERO team which redesigned the User Interface of Windows Vista (the next version of Windows). We spend half an hour looking at the user interface.