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MS to host WinHEC 98 in March
News Established as a key showcase for Windows hardware developers, WinHEC 98 will spotlight Windows 98 and Windows NT 5.0 for over 3,500 attendees. Keynotes will be given by Bill Gates, chairman and CEO, and Jim Allchin, senior vice president of the...
[January 8, 1998, 9:40]
New processors talked up at WinHEC
News Here at WinHEC AMD demonstrated a 600MHz K7 with the 200MHz memory bus, 128MB of 100MHz memory and a chip set of its own design. Available in September, the PC will sport a 500MHz or faster Pentium III chip with 4X AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port...
[April 12, 1999, 8:35]
Photos: Concept and current PCs at WinHEC
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates showed off some of the winners during his keynote speech at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles. It was one of several Microsoft contest winners shown by Gates on Tuesday and is on...
[May 17, 2007, 17:19]
Longhorn will feature 'secure' components
News Microsoft on Wednesday warned developers at its WinHEC conference that changes continue to be made in the security technology component it plans for next-generation PCs. A year ago at WinHEC (the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference), Microsoft...
[May 6, 2004, 8:40]
Gates touts vision of PC as hub
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took the stage at WinHEC on Thursday, announcing support for Bluetooth wireless networking technology and demonstrating technologies that he sees becoming pervasive in home networks.
[April 19, 2002, 10:28]
Getting to grips with Windows 7 multitouch
News A Microsoft booth worker at the Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles demonstrates how touch can be used to move quickly through a long text document. Multitouch has its serious side, but fingerpainting proved one of...
[November 12, 2008, 14:22]
Microsoft turns spotlight on Windows 7 Server
News Speaking on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles, Microsoft vice president Bill Laing pointed out the difference between products that would use the server software, as opposed to netbooks and other PCs...
[November 7, 2008, 10:29]
Microsoft announces Longhorn release date
News More Longhorn details are expected to be released on Thursday, during technical sessions at WinHEC. Company representatives at a WinHEC demonstration of a pre-beta version of Longhorn said that the goal is to be able to run the OS on screens with a...
[May 8, 2003, 10:56]
Microsoft puts its weight behind Bluetooth
News Gates plans to announce the backing in Seattle in a keynote address at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC, at which the software giant tries to align hardware and software engineers with its plans.
[April 18, 2002, 14:30]
Microsoft bug-checking tools promise fewer crashes
News We're hoping that reliability and robustness for drivers will improve," Jon Hagen, a Microsoft developer who works on the Static Driver Verifier, said in an interview at WinHEC. Drivers are developed by Microsoft as well as by hardware makers...
[May 30, 2006, 16:40]
Microsoft expo tunes into the home
News The proposed changes and standards will be launched on Tuesday through Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC, where the software giant meets with flocks of engineers responsible for arcane but essential workings of PCs...
[April 16, 2002, 12:45]
Windows 7 location smarts spark privacy debate
News Those issues — and how to handle them — were the subject of a discussion at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles. Not everyone at WinHEC felt Windows 7 was doing all it could on the privacy front.
[November 7, 2008, 16:25]
Microsoft unveils new betas for Office, Vista
News Each of these is a very important product," Gates said in a keynote address in Seattle at the company's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC. The company perennially uses WinHEC to implore hardware makers to ensure they have built 64...
[May 24, 2006, 11:20]
XP's smart display enables double vision
News On Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans, Microsoft showed off a prototype of a set-top box co-designed with graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies that lets consumers view on a wide-screen TV their media...
[May 8, 2003, 13:39]
Longhorn: If they build it, will anyone come?
News At last year's WinHEC, Microsoft outlined some of the features it was evaluating that it said would improve mobile computing in Longhorn. Things should become clearer next month when Microsoft offers an updated preview version of Longhorn at WinHEC...
[April 1, 2005, 18:10]
No Longhorn beta this year - Microsoft
News Allchin said the software maker will distribute a new developer's preview of Longhorn at WinHEC (the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference), which is from May 4 to May 7 in Seattle. The WinHEC release is both a refresh of new code and new...
[April 2, 2004, 8:55]
Microsoft may ship Windows 7 by next Christmas
News The WinHEC session also shed a little more light on the Velocity programme itself. At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference on Thursday, Microsoft provided the clearest public indication yet that it is planning on completing Windows 7 in time...
[November 7, 2008, 11:40]
First beta of Banias chip ready
News Intel has produced its first prototypes of the upcoming "Banias" processor, the company's first chip purely designed for use in mobile PCs, the company announced at WinHEC on Thursday. Streamed video: First look at Intel's Banias chip
[April 19, 2002, 15:37]
Microsoft takes Web services to the home
News At its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle, Microsoft will announce a specification, software development kit and partner support for new technology that links consumer-electronics devices to Windows.
[May 4, 2004, 14:40]
Windows to embrace multiple DVD formats
News The software giant said at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans that it will provide built-in support for DVD+RW, DVD-RW/-R and DVD-RAM in future versions of its desktop operating system.
[May 9, 2003, 15:58]
