New PDC2008 Announcements

The PDC team just made a few new announcements on the PDC web site that we thought would interest you:

• A major lineup of executive keynote speakers representing most of the core Microsoft businesses
• Featuring 20+ Windows 7 sessions, and we’ll be giving out the Win7 bits
• Including in-depth symposia sessions including parallel computing and S+S

This year, Ray Ozzie will lay out Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing and building applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web and mobile devices. 

And in the first keynote Ray will talk about the new world of Software Plus Services, with Bob Muglia joining him, to unveil our new Cloud Computing platform.

In a second keynote, Ray will return to talk about building immersive user experiences and introduce Steven Sinofsky, who will give developers a first look at the next version of Windows, Windows 7. Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell will also join Ray and Steven to dive deep on the latest Win32 and .NET platform advances that enable a next generation of user experiences spanning multiple devices, including a look at the latest developments in .NET, Silverlight, “Live Mesh”, and the rest of the client platform.

In keynote three, we turn the microphone over to coders extraordinaire Don Box and Chris Anderson, who will look at Microsoft’s latest technologies through the eyes of working developers.

And finally, in the fourth keynote, Rick Rashid will talk about how Microsoft research is helping to shape the future of computing.

And, the team also just announced on Channel 9 that all partners and customers attending the PDC will receive a very special gift this year - a 160GB external USB2 hard drive with all of the bits!  Very cool!