Ms Pdc2008 News & Articles

Microsoft saw better days before the release of Vista — which many consider a disaster — but Microsoft is quickly trying to make amends with the development of Windows 7, commonly referred to as the operating system that Vista should have been. The Professional Developer’s Conference brought plenty of details about Microsoft’s latest operating system and we have explored the most important ones.

Microsoft, for nearly two decades, has been dominant with two products: Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. But Microsoft made a bold addition with the recent announcement of their new Office Web applications — Web-based versions of several desktop Microsoft Office applications — during the Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC). This news comes just as Microsoft announces its various cloud services that will unquestionably play a pivotal role in the company’s future.

Some people enjoy the thrill of the crowds, the keynote speeches, meeting partners and vendors, and seeing first hand all the neat new things to come — that’s why they go to conferences like Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC2008).

Some are either too cheap to go, or their companies are too cheap to send them. For those of you that fall into this category, you must live vicariously through the media and other bloggers to get your conference thrills.

We didn’t get to the PDC2008 Conference either, but here’s some highlights we have gleamed by listening to those that did go.