PDC09

Developers scoffing at Office and SharePoint?  Not anymore they don’t!  Steve Fox, the productivity track owner for Office, SharePoint, CRM and Unified Communications, talks to us about what kind of IW dev content we’ll have on these technologies at PDC, and what to expect that is…

Many people love to speculate on what the next Killer App might be. Juval Lowy will use his ideal killer app as the basis of his upcoming workshop at PDC09 on November 16th. He’d like to think that the EnergyNet (yeah… I called it “energyweb” in my intro) might provide such a cohesive…

We just announced a day of free training on November 16, 2009 in LA as part of PDC09. Did I mention that it is free, that it will include deep dives into the depth of Windows from folks like Mark Russinovich, Landy Wang and Arun Kishan? Wait, did I just write that?! This is AWESOME. If you are…

You think PDC this year will be all about the cloud, tools and the OS?  Think again!  We’ve got loads of server content coming out our 64-bit procs.  Volker Will, our content guru overseeing all of our server sessions, is our guest of honor this week and he describes some of the…

BI, or "Business Intelligence" allows businesses to make better use of their data, and resources in order to make better decisions related to how to grow and improve their business. For the PDC09 in Los Angeles, Andrew Brust and Don Demsak will be presenting a special day-long…

This is a very special episode of Expert to Expert. We were very fortunate to get some time with renowned computer scientist and Microsoft Technical Fellow Butler Lampson. Butler's impact on general purpose computing is profound. Personal computing as it exists today is in part the result…

One of the recent sessions announced for PDC09 is one which will focus on some key advancements in Office 2010 as well as Visual Studio 2010, which will allow developers to take better advantage of the features and capabilities found in Office and SharePoint. I’ve invited John Durant to join me…

As promised I give you a quick walk-through of how we did the PDC Countdown video in 3D. Hardware used included a pair of Flip Ultra HD cameras, a bracket and connector, and an affordable little tripod -- Total cost: $340. The software I use is Stereo Movie Maker, which is freeware and can be…

Meet Drew Robbins, the evangelist organizing the content that is dear and near to all PDC attendees:  developers tooling, application lifecycle tools, the CLR and the .NET Framework.  Think you’ve seen and heard it all?  Think again.  As Drew coordinates across 35 product teams…

As promised I give you a quick walk-through of how we did the PDC Countdown video in 3D. Hardware used included a pair of Flip Ultra HD cameras, a bracket and connector, and an affordable little tripod -- Total cost: $340. The software I use is Stereo Movie Maker, which is freeware and can…