Former series of conferences by Microsoft
Steven Sinofsky andJulie Larson-Green presenting at PDC 2008Microsoft 'sProfessional Developers Conference (PDC ) was a series of conferences forsoftware developers ; the conference was held infrequently to coincide with beta releases of theWindows 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'sweb development conferenceMIX to form theBuild Conference .
July 1992 -Moscone Center inSan Francisco, California Known as Win32 Professional Developers Conference First demonstration of the Win32 API and first mention of "Chicago", which would eventually becomeWindows 95 Estimated attendance of over 5,000 developers[ 1] Windows NT 3.1 Preliminary Release for Developers (build 297) was sent to all conference attendees December 1993 -Anaheim Convention Center inAnaheim, California [ 2] March 1996 -Moscone Center inSan Francisco, California [ 3] 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[ 4] September 1997 -San Diego Convention Center inSan Diego, California [ 1] First demonstrations ofWindows NT 5.0 , release of Beta 1 to developers Estimated attendance of 6,200 October 11–15, 1998 -Colorado Convention Center ,Denver, Colorado [ 5] July 11–14, 2000 -Orange County Convention Center inOrlando, Florida [ 6] October 22–26, 2001 -Los Angeles Convention Center inLos Angeles, California [ 7] October 27–30, 2003 -Los Angeles Convention Center inLos Angeles, California September 13–16, 2005 -Los Angeles Convention Center inLos Angeles, California Windows Vista build 5219 handed out to attendees Internet Explorer 7 demoed Office 12 demoed with ribbon bar .NET 2.0 October 27–30, 2008 -Los Angeles Convention Center inLos Angeles, California .[ 8] First demonstration ofWindows 7 as well asOffice 14 for the Web . Introduction ofWindows Azure , Microsoft's data center hosting platform. Outlook to .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and a new .NET Application Server (codenamed "Dublin"). Release ofMicrosoft Surface SDK and first demonstration of SecondLight, a next generation Surface prototype. November 17–20, 2009 -Los Angeles Convention Center inLos Angeles, California [ 9] Vision ofThree Screens and a Cloud Emergence ofWindows 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 MicrosoftInternet Explorer 9 and its objective of betterAcid3 performance andHTML5 /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 inRedmond, Washington [ 10] 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 [ edit ] ^a b "Speech Transcript - Jim Allchin, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference" . September 24, 1997.^ Brockschmidt, Craig."Chapter 11 - Name, Fame, and Guru Game" .Mystic Microsoft . Archived fromthe original on December 24, 2016. RetrievedMay 24, 2009 . ^ "Activating the Internet" . March 24, 1996. Archived fromthe original on November 27, 2010.^ "Microsoft to Offer Comprehensive Internet and Intranet Developer Conferences" . Microsoft. September 16, 1996. RetrievedMay 9, 2024 .^ "Microsoft Systems Journal: Editor's Notes, December 1998" . Archived fromthe original on July 10, 2004.^ "Themes: Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2000" . Archived fromthe original on May 30, 2008.^ Guy Barrette (November 2001)."Microsoft PDC 2001 Review" . Universal Thread Magazine. RetrievedMay 22, 2006 . ^ Jritz (December 2007)."PDC08 Is Here!" . PDC Blog. Archived fromthe original on June 1, 2008. RetrievedMay 26, 2008 . ^ Long Zheng."Announcing PDC09" . RetrievedOctober 30, 2008 . ^ "Announcing PDC10" . RetrievedJuly 12, 2010 .
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