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Microsoft Developers Conference: MS pledges to Internet-enable all products
News The announcements came at the Professional Developers Conference attended by 3,500 visitors in Long Beach, California. Jim Allchin, senior VP for desktops and systems, said the conference was "the most important we have ever had".
[November 6, 1996, 8:44]
Microsoft's great developer hunt
News Microsoft executives provided technical detail and anticipated ship dates for a product code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) at the Mix '06 conference last week. As a developer, you don't have to think whether there's a...
[March 28, 2006, 17:15]
Microsoft strips down developer tools
News As expected, the company launched the new line of "Express" branded developer tools at its TechEd Europe conference in Amsterdam on Tuesday. Microsoft is reaching out to nonprofessional programmers with a revamped line of developer tools, including...
[June 29, 2004, 9:40]
Microsoft uses developer tools to promote Longhorn
News At its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in September, Microsoft plans to provide further tooling for the forthcoming Visual Studio 2005 to encourage the creation of Longhorn applications. Company executives discussed its product plans...
[June 9, 2005, 12:05]
Microsoft platform tops Web 2.0 developer survey
News However, Australian web developer and co-founder of the Web Directions conference John Allsopp told ZDNet.com.au on Wednesday that the survey "doesn't say anything meaningful at all". Microsoft's MSN/Windows Live Developer Program has topped the...
[May 7, 2008, 8:09]
Microsoft to lift lid on hacker conference
News Microsoft is to publish the findings of its three day "Blue Hat 3" security conference, according to a blog posting by one of its organisers. Microsoft technologies and also problems that affect our entire industry," wrote conference organiser Brad...
[March 17, 2006, 15:55]
Microsoft realigns software developer units
News The company also offers training classes at its Professional Developer's Conference, which will be held next week in Los Angeles. The Developer and Platform Evangelism Division will include Microsoft's software development tools, its Microsoft...
[October 17, 2001, 11:30]
Microsoft Developers Conference: MS looks forward to new PC types
News Before going into the drier details of its developer plans at the Professional Developers Conference in Long Beach, California, group VP of applications and platforms Paul Maritz took time out to look at futuristic developments that will have...
[November 6, 1996, 14:39]
MS to Palm developers: Bill G. wants you!
News On the eve of Palm's annual developer's conference, Microsoft is planning a concerted effort to poach talent from its rival. The PalmSource conference, which opens Wednesday in Santa Clara, California, is a venue at which Palm offers a glimpse at...
[December 8, 2000, 7:55]
Microsoft expo to unveil new devices
News Microsoft on Wednesday will kick off its first developer conference for mobile devices in London by announcing new devices using its Pocket PC 2002 and Handheld PC OS from partners Toshiba and Hewlett-Packard.
[April 17, 2002, 8:40]
Microsoft's mobility efforts: where are they going?
News At its recent Mobility Developer conference, Microsoft laid out its strategy for enabling developers to create next-generation location-aware applications. At the Mobility conference, every major mobile phone carrier announced or showed support for...
[April 8, 2003, 9:53]
Symbian rallies developers against Microsoft
News Symbian chief executive David Levin kicked off the company's annual developer conference on Wednesday with a call to arms, with Microsoft as the clear -- if unstated -- public enemy number one. Microsoft even timed its own mobility developer...
[April 24, 2002, 9:30]
Salesforce.com forges closer links with Office
News Salesforce.com executives are scheduled to more fully detail the program at the Microsoft Office System Developer conference. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates plans to address conference attendees on Friday.
[February 2, 2005, 16:45]
Indigo: The colour of Passport security?
News At its developer conference this week, Microsoft is expected to unveil plans to beef up the security of its Passport online authentication service with middleware code-named Indigo. Microsoft plans to make the first software developer release of...
[October 23, 2001, 11:41]
PDC Day minus one
Blog A couple of months ago ZDNets editor Rupert Goodwins asked me if I'd like to go to Microsofts Professional Developer conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. This tends to mean that for your average developer PDC isn't always a no brainer of a conference...
[October 26, 2008, 15:01]
Gates talks up new speech and mobile products
News Gates addressed a combined audience made up of developers attending the VSLive show, the Microsoft Mobile Developer Conference and the Applied Voice Input/Output Society SpeechTek Spring 2004 confab. Gates' announcement came at a conference in San...
[March 25, 2004, 9:35]
Ballmer unpacks new developer tools
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer announced a few new developer tools but otherwise played a greatest-hits set before an audience of about 10,000 information technology professionals at the TechEd conference on Monday.
[May 25, 2004, 9:15]
Microsoft pulling Live Framework test bits
News Developers can expect to hear more about where Microsoft plans to go with Live Framework at this November's Professional Developer Conference. Microsoft rolled out the Live Framework as a community technology preview at last year's Professional...
[August 24, 2009, 9:09]
Gates touts Elixir to developers
News Microsoft is looking for lots of companies to write programs that link Office to other business processes, a message it has driven home at this week's developer conference. We took a number of passes at this," Gates said in a speech at the Office...
[February 7, 2005, 13:40]
Social Features in Outlook
Talkback Bill Gates himself called Xobni “the future of social networking” at Microsoft Office Developer Conference last year. We’ve also announced that we are expanding to new platforms - just last week ago, we demoed up on stage at the BlackBerry...
[November 18, 2009, 21:51]
