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Professional Developers Conference

{{short description|Former series of conferences by Microsoft}}

{{Infobox recurring event

| name = Microsoft PDC

| logo =

| years_active = 1992–2010

| frequency = Annual

| venue = Seattle Convention Center and Digital

| location = Anaheim, California, Redmond, Washington, San Francisco, California, Seattle, Washington

| founded = {{start date and age|1992|07}}

| last = October 28–29, 2010

| status = merged with MIX to form the Build Conference in 2011

}}

File:Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green at Microsoft PDC 2008, day two (3009002418).jpg and Julie Larson-Green presenting at PDC 2008]]

Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) was a series of conferences for software developers; the conference was held infrequently to coincide with beta releases of the Windows operating system, and showcased topics of interest to those developing hardware and software for the new version of Windows.

In 2011, PDC was merged with Microsoft's web development conference MIX to form the Build Conference.

Events

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|url = http://podgoretsky.com/ftp/Docs/Internet/Late%20Night%20ActiveX/ch1.htm

|title = Activating the Internet

|date = March 24, 1996

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  • Microsoft demonstrated the power of new tools, renamed ActiveX
  • Microsoft and other industry leaders presented VBScript, an implementation of OLE Scripting; ActiveX Controls, for embedding OLE Controls into HTML documents; ActiveX Conferencing, which enables sharing data as well as applications over TCP/IP; the Internet Control Pack, allowing developers to make their applications Internet aware; and numerous other ActiveX technologies.
  • November, 1996 - Long Beach, California November 3–7, 1996{{cite web | url=http://news.microsoft.com/1996/09/16/microsoft-to-offer-comprehensive-internet-and-intranet-developer-conferences/ | title=Microsoft to Offer Comprehensive Internet and Intranet Developer Conferences | publisher=Microsoft | date=16 September 1996 | access-date=9 May 2024}}
  • September 1997 - San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California{{cite web

|url=http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/jim/pdc.mspx

|title=Speech Transcript - Jim Allchin, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference

|date=September 24, 1997

}}

|url=http://www.microsoft.com/msj/1298/ednote1298.aspx

|title=Microsoft Systems Journal: Editor's Notes, December 1998

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040710220631/http://www.microsoft.com/msj/1298/ednote1298.aspx

|archive-date=2004-07-10

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=2000-2009=

|url = http://www.sandm.co.uk/simon/comjourns/Columns/PDC_2000/pdc_2000.html

|title = Themes: Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2000

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|archive-date = 2008-05-30

}}

|url=http://www.utmag.com/wconnect/wc.dll?9,7,10,1662

|title=Microsoft PDC 2001 Review

|author=Guy Barrette

|date=November 2001

|access-date=2006-05-22

|publisher=Universal Thread Magazine

}}

|url = http://blogs.msdn.com/pdc/archive/2007/12/06/pdc2008.aspx

|title = PDC08 Is Here!

|author = Jritz

|date = December 2007

|access-date = 2008-05-26

|publisher = PDC Blog

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080601042216/http://blogs.msdn.com/pdc/archive/2007/12/06/pdc2008.aspx

|archive-date = 2008-06-01

}}

|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/longzheng/2984512404/

|title=Announcing PDC09

|access-date=2008-10-30

|author=Long Zheng

}}

  • Vision of Three Screens and a Cloud
  • Emergence of Windows Azure with billed, commercial service to begin in February 2010.
  • Many back-end announcements:
  • Microsoft AppFabric, based on the earlier .NET Application Server and the caching technology (formerly codenamed "Velocity").
  • Microsoft SQL Server Modeling Services (SSModS) released (formerly codenamed "Oslo")
  • BizTalk Server 2009 R2 announced with new features like an improved mapper for early 2010 release
  • Many front-end announcements:
  • Release of first public betas for Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Silverlight 4
  • Early revelations about Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and its objective of better Acid3 performance and HTML5/CSS3 compliance.
  • A special "PDC 2009" Acer 1420p Multi-touch Tablet PC was given out to all attendees (the BIOS referencing MSFT in the 'about' information.)
  • October 28–29, 2010 - Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington{{cite web

|url=http://www.microsoftpdc.com/

|title=Announcing PDC10

|access-date=2010-07-12}}

  • Announced new Platform Features for Cloud Computing
  • VmRoles announced to port existing on-premises Applications to the Cloud
  • Microsoft "Dallas" renamed to Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
  • Windows Azure Marketplace Applications announced
  • An unlocked Windows Phone 7 smartphone was given out to all attendees
  • Microsoft limited the number of attendees to 1,000
  • Many public viewing events all over the globe (e.g. Tokyo, London, Cologne, Vienna)

Other Microsoft developer conferences

See also

References

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External links

  • [http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ Professional Developers Conference]
  • [http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC Video Archive Of Keynotes]
  • [http://www.buildwindows.com/ Build Windows]

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