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Photos: Take a tour of Microsoft's self-contained datacentre
Photo But clearly, the unit on display at PDC was running Dell boxes. The cooling system for the container shown at PDC is downright stingy in its use of water - only two to three gallons per minute, as... [24 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta released to the public
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the beta of Office 2010 is now publicly available from the company's website. Among the features new to the beta is a social networking connector that allows users to bring in Windows Live and other... [19 Nov 2009]
Clouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
News Azure will be made commercially available from 1 January, Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, announced yesterday at the company's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. [18 Nov 2009]
Trial Microsoft's cloud SQL Azure Database - for free
News Ray Ozzie introduces Windows Azure at Microsoft's PDC last October (photo credit: TechFlash Todd via Flickr under the following Creative Commons licence) In a move to capture a piece of the cloud computing pie, Microsoft... [19 Aug 2009]
Test Center Benchmarks: Windows 7 Unmasked
White Paper Windows 7 was finally unveiled last month at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Overall, Microsoft's pitch was quite compelling, and the PDC crowd was practically salivating at the... [31 Jul 2009]
Five ways Microsoft has changed since Gates left
Comment He told silicon.com: "With the announcements around Azure that were made at PDC [Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference] last year, Microsoft has embraced the move towards cloud computing with considerable gusto. [08 Jul 2009]
MSDN Webcast: Cloud Services for State and Local Government (Level 200)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast discusses Microsoft technology announcements at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and the relevance to state and local government customers. The presenter considers the... [22 Dec 2008]
MSDN Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Mobile Application Development: Live Update From the Professional Developers Conference (Level 300)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast share lots of news announced at Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and demonstrate some of the cool upcoming technologies. [09 Dec 2008]
Windows 7 beta landing in January?
News Microsoft said: "As we said at the PDC, we expect to deliver beta 1 in early 2009 and we continue to be on track to deliver against that development milestone. Windows enthusiasts were buzzing on Tuesday over a Microsoft... [03 Dec 2008]
Microsoft announces Live Mesh developer Framework
News Microsoft did show several concept applications at the PDC, including efforts from Blockbuster and BBC, which showed a version of its iPlayer that used Mesh to help people see what programmes their friends were watching. [03 Nov 2008]
Google offers limited support for OpenID
News Microsoft's usage of OpenID, announced on Tuesday at PDC, will let users simply drop in their special OpenID URL as their identifier, forsaking the need for a Google account. On Wednesday Google formally announced its... [30 Oct 2008]
Microsoft Office 14 to get an airing at PDC
News Windows 7 and Windows Cloud may be the stars of Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC), but the next version of Office has also landed a role in the production. It's not clear how deep the Office 14... [21 Oct 2008]
It's official: Windows 7, no longer a codename
News Microsoft plans to give developers at the Professional Developer Conference (PDC) later this month a pre-beta version of the software. In a few weeks we are going to be talking about the details of this release at the... [14 Oct 2008]
Microsoft allows developers below the Surface at last
News The long-awaited software developer kit for the Surface tabletop computer will be made available to those attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC) at the end of the month. Microsoft made that pledge... [07 Oct 2008]
More wisps of Windows Cloud from Ballmer
News The software maker has promised that application developers will also be able to write Mesh-based applications and that the tools to do so will be detailed at the PDC. Microsoft plans to release a pre-beta version of... [03 Oct 2008]
