Professional Developers Conference

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.

Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green presenting at PDC 2008

In 2011, PDC was merged with Microsoft's web development conference MIX to form the Build Conference. Since 2011, it has been renamed BUILD.

Events

2000-2009
  • July 11–14, 2000 - Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida[6]
    • .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET announced, initial beta release given to attendees
    • C# programming language announced and demonstrated
    • ASP+, the successor to Active Server Pages was announced; this was renamed ASP.NET later in the year
    • Announcement of the end of the Windows 9x line, culminating with a planned 2002 release of a new operating system, "Whistler"
    • Internet Explorer 5.5 was released
    • Estimated attendance of 6,000 developers
  • October 22–26, 2001 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California[7]
  • October 27–30, 2003 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California
    • Windows Longhorn revealed - Avalon, Aero, Indigo, WinFS
  • September 13–16, 2005 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los 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 in Los Angeles, California.[8]
    • First demonstration of Windows 7 as well as Office 14 for the Web .
    • Introduction of Windows Azure, Microsoft's data center hosting platform.
    • Outlook to .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and a new .NET Application Server (codenamed "Dublin").
    • Release of Microsoft Surface SDK and first demonstration of SecondLight, a next generation Surface prototype.
  • November 17–20, 2009 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California[9]
    • 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[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

See also

References
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  2. Brockschmidt, Craig. "Chapter 11 - Name, Fame, and Guru Game". Mystic Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  3. "Activating the Internet". March 24, 1996. Archived from the original on November 27, 2010.
  4. "Microsoft to Offer Comprehensive Internet and Intranet Developer Conferences". Microsoft. 16 September 1996. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  5. "Microsoft Systems Journal: Editor's Notes, December 1998".
  6. "Themes: Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2000". Archived from the original on 2008-05-30.
  7. Guy Barrette (November 2001). "Microsoft PDC 2001 Review". Universal Thread Magazine. Retrieved 2006-05-22.
  8. Jritz (December 2007). "PDC08 Is Here!". PDC Blog. Archived from the original on 2008-06-01. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
  9. Long Zheng. "Announcing PDC09". Retrieved 2008-10-30.
  10. "Announcing PDC10". Retrieved 2010-07-12.
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