Windows Hardware Engineering Conference

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The Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) is a series of technical conferences and workshops, where Microsoft elaborates on its hardware plans for Windows devices.

The WinHEC from 1992 to 2008, which stood for Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, was an annual software and hardware developer-oriented trade show and business conference, where Microsoft elaborated on its hardware plans for Microsoft Windows-compatible PCs. From 2008 to 2015, WinHEC was then replaced in Microsoft's schedule by the Professional Developers Conference, later merged into the Build conference.

On September 26, 2014, Microsoft announced that WinHEC would be returning in 2015 in the form of multiple conferences held throughout the year.{{cite web|title=Announcing the return of WinHEC|url=http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/26/announcing-the-return-of-winhec/|website=Windows Blog|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=27 September 2014}} The first conference was to be held in Shenzhen, China on March 18 to 19. The industry had changed significantly since Microsoft's prior WinHEC event, with innovation happening at a much quicker pace and across more geographically diverse locations. Because of that, Microsoft evolved WinHEC to be more than a single annual conference. WinHEC was to consist of technical conferences and smaller, more frequent, topic focused workshops that were local to the hardware ecosystem hubs. The WinHEC acronym also changed its meaning to "Windows Hardware Engineering Community".

On December 17, 2014, Microsoft announced that registration was open for the first of its re-launched WinHEC summit, taking place March 18–19, 2015 in Shenzhen, China. The company also announced that Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President of the Operating Systems Group would keynote the event. They would discuss advancements in the Windows platform making it easier for companies to build devices powered by Windows as well as Microsoft’s growing investments in the Shenzhen and China ecosystem.

Audience

WinHEC will stay true to its strong technical roots. The agenda will be packed with executive keynotes, deep technical training sessions, hands-on labs, and opportunities for Q&A on topics across the spectrum of Windows-based hardware. For executives, engineering managers, engineers and technical product managers at OEMs, ODMs, IHVs, and IDHs who are working with or want to work with Windows technologies

Events

1992 – San Francisco, California. March 1–3, 1992
1993 – San Jose, California. March 1–3, 1993
1994 – San Francisco, California. February 23–25, 1994
1995 – San Francisco, California. March 20–22, 1995
1996 – San Jose, California. April 1–3, 1996
1997 – San Francisco, California. April 8–10, 1997
1998 – Orlando, Florida. March 25–27, 1998
1999 – Los Angeles, California. April 7–9, 1999
2000 – New Orleans, Louisiana. April 25–27, 2000
2001 – Anaheim, California. March 26–28, 2001.
Announcement of the availability of Windows XP Beta 2, which includes the first public beta of Internet Explorer 6.{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Mar01/03-26XPBeta2PR.mspx |title=Bill Gates Announces the Availability of Microsoft Windows XP Beta 2 |date=26 March 2001 |access-date=2008-12-04 |work=PressPass |publisher=Microsoft |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112193345/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Mar01/03-26XPBeta2PR.mspx |archive-date=January 12, 2009 }}
2002 – Seattle, Washington. April 16–18, 2002.
2003 – New Orleans, Louisiana. May 6–8, 2003.
Bill Gates keynote; demonstrated "Athens" PC concept, discussed 64-bit computing, uptake of Windows XP.

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Initial Windows Longhorn demonstrations and discussions, focusing on a new Desktop Composition Engine (which later became known as the Desktop Window Manager){{cite web|url=http://www.jonpeddie.com/dispatches/WinHec2003/winhec2003.shtml |title=WinHec 2003 |publisher=John Peddie Research |date=May 2003 |access-date=2008-11-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061031220259/http://www.jonpeddie.com/dispatches/WinHec2003/winhec2003.shtml |archive-date=October 31, 2006 }}
2004 – Seattle, Washington. May 4–7, 2004.{{cite web

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Discussion of Longhorn release timeline and upcoming service packs for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
Updated Athens concept PC design, named "Troy" based on a Longhorn user interface
2005 – Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Washington. April 25–27, 2005.{{cite web|url=https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/news/events/pastevents/ |title=Trusted Computing group past events |access-date=2006-09-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003200647/https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/news/events/pastevents |archive-date=October 3, 2006 }}
Bill Gates gave a keynote speech on various topics including Windows "Longhorn" (known later as Windows Vista) and 64-bit computing.
2006 – Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Washington. May 23–25, 2006. Attendance of more than 3,700.{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/|title=WinHEC 2006: Windows Hardware Engineering Conference|website=Microsoft |access-date=2006-09-02}}
Microsoft announced the release of beta 2 of Windows Vista, Windows Server "Longhorn" and Microsoft Office 2007.
The Free Software Foundation staged a protest outside the venue, wearing yellow hazmat suits and handing out pamphlets claiming that Microsoft products are "Defective by Design" because of the digital rights management technologies included in them.{{cite web

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|date=May 23, 2006

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2007 – Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California. May 15–17, 2007.
2008 – Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California. November 4–6, 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx|title=WinHEC 2008: Windows Hardware Engineering Conference|website=Microsoft |access-date=2008-09-06}}
Immediately following PDC 2008, held at the same venue, October 27–30.
Focusing on the then upcoming Windows 7.
2015 – Grand Hyatt Shenzhen Hotel, Shenzhen, China. March 18–19, 2015.{{cite web|url=https://www.winhec.com/|title=WinHEC 2015|access-date=2014-12-18}}
Microsoft released the source of the Windows Driver Frameworks.
Focused on Windows 10.

References

External links

; Main

{{official website|winhec.com}}

; 2006

[https://web.archive.org/web/20060621050216/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/winhec/material.mspx Press materials from WinHEC 2006]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070313111200/http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/winhec2006.aspx Online videos etc. from WinHEC 2006]

; 2005

[https://web.archive.org/web/20091206160139/http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winhec_2005.asp WinSuperSite show report for WinHEC 2005]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060415045012/http://www.tgdaily.com:80/2005/04/26/winhec_2005/index.html WinHEC 2005: Microsoft's 64 Bit Promises]

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