PDC

Steve Marks invited Jonathan Greenstead, CEO of Sentinent on stage during Monday's PDC2008 keynote to demo Bluehoo, a rich application hosted by Windows Azure. Built in Silverlight and coded entirely in Visual Studio C++, Bluehoo is a location-based social networking tool to see people…

Get the details about Windows Azure and other technologies announced this morning from the live blogs BetaNews, CNET or the community live blogging session done by Long Zheng, Ed Bott, Paul Thurrott, Kip Kniskern, Mary Jo Foley, Rafael Rivera, Tom Warren, and Todd Bishop directly from the fist…

We're excited to have you here in L.A. to engage in in-depth discussions around upcoming technologies and the future direction of the Microsoft platform. 

Hoje no PDC 2008 o Ray Ozzie anunciou o sistema operacional Windows voltado para computação nas nuvens. Windows Azure é a camada básica para a Plataforma de Serviços Azure (Azure Services Platform). Essa Plataforma junta funcionalidades de desenvolvimento nas nuvens com armazenamento, serviços de…

A Netflix é uma empresa americana que criou um serviço de aluguel de DVD realmente inovador. O cliente assina um plano mensal de aluguel quer permite ter, ao mesmo tempo, um certo número de DVDs. Por exemplo, por US$ 9 você pode ter até 2 DVDs em casa com você. Só que por causa da assinatura…

Hoje começa o maior e mais importante evento da Microsoft para desenvolvedores, o Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, ou PDC. O foco do evento realmente é desenvolvimento em cima da plataforma Microsoft. Porém, isso não quer dizer que não teremos novidades quentíssimas saindo de lá.…

Microsoft enthusiast and blogger Long Zheng arranged for seven bloggers to participate in All Star Blogging from PDC: Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Kip Kniskern, Rafael Rivera, Paul Thurrott, Tom Warren, and Long Zheng. The group will be contributing to a single Coveritlive blog so you’ll…

At Microsoft, we love Robots.  Turns out, we’re not the only ones.  Our friends at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have brought a full scale replica of the Mars Exploratory Rover to display in the “Big Room” next to the Robotics Booth.  In addition, some of the actual engineers and…

There's going to be some great stuff going on in the bookstore @ PDC -- including some book launchings, book signings and more. Anders Hejlsberg, who will be signing copies of the C# Programming Language on Monday, October 27 at 3:30 PM, will only be around for 30 minutes, and we're…

As PDC approaches, the buzz surrounding the Microsoft’s modeling platform, “Oslo,” grows louder and louder. The “Oslo” modeling language sits at the center of the “Oslo” platform, and has the potential to change the way developers think about modeling.  Join Chris Anderson and Giovanni…