Archive for October, 2008
Microsoft PDC Day 3
Surprisingly, the most interesting thing that I saw today had absolutely nothing to do with .NET, Windows or cloud computing. Rich Rashid from Microsoft Research was the keynoter today and he walked through a number of really cool things that they’re working on, but the project that really stood out for me was something called [...]
Microsoft PDC Day 2
A big part of day 2 was an introduction to Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista. Not surprisingly, there’s been plenty of coverage on this topic so I’m not going to discuss the announcements in any great detail (you can also watch the complete keynote). However, let me quickly mention a couple of things [...]
Microsoft PDC Day 1
I’ve traveled all the way from San Diego, CA to Los Angeles, CA this week to attend Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference — watch out L.A. you’re about to be overrun by some pretty serious nerds!
I guess the big announcement of the day was Microsoft’s new Windows Azure cloud computing platform. This is their answer to [...]