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Events
- July 1992 - Moscone Center in San Francisco, California
- Known as Win32 Professional Developers Conference
- First demonstration of the Win32 API and first mention of "Chicago", which would eventually become Windows 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 in Anaheim, California[2]
- March 1996 - Moscone Center in San 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 in San Diego, California[1]
- First demonstrations of Windows NT 5.0, release of Beta 1 to developers
- Estimated attendance of 6,200
- October 11–15, 1998 - Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado[5]
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
- 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
References
- 1 2 "Speech Transcript - Jim Allchin, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference". September 24, 1997.
- ↑ Brockschmidt, Craig. "Chapter 11 - Name, Fame, and Guru Game". Mystic Microsoft. Archived from the original on December 24, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2009.
- ↑ "Activating the Internet". March 24, 1996. Archived from the original on November 27, 2010.
- ↑ "Microsoft to Offer Comprehensive Internet and Intranet Developer Conferences". Microsoft. September 16, 1996. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
- ↑ "Microsoft Systems Journal: Editor's Notes, December 1998". Archived from the original on July 10, 2004.
- ↑ "Themes: Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2000". Archived from the original on May 30, 2008.
- ↑ Guy Barrette (November 2001). "Microsoft PDC 2001 Review". Universal Thread Magazine. Retrieved May 22, 2006.
- ↑ Jritz (December 2007). "PDC08 Is Here!". PDC Blog. Archived from the original on June 1, 2008. Retrieved May 26, 2008.
- ↑ Long Zheng. "Announcing PDC09". Retrieved October 30, 2008.
- ↑ "Announcing PDC10". Retrieved July 12, 2010.
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