PDC 2008 – Day 1 Wrap Up – Videos, Fact Sheets, Channel 9 Videos, and Speech Transcripts
Wow. What a day! I’ve attempted to pull together a summary of materials and videos from Day 1. I’m now in the keynote for Day 2 so will have more later on that later.
Fact Sheets – Live Services, Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure, .NET 4.0 and “Dublin”, Oslo, SQL Data Services, Sql Server
- Live Services Fact Sheet (.doc file, 36 KB)
- Azure Services Platform Fact Sheet (.doc file, 40 KB)
- Windows Azure Fact Sheet (.doc file, 33 KB)
- Windows Communication Foundation 4.0, Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 and Windows Server “Dublin” - Fact Sheet (.doc file, 73 KB)
- Oslo Fact Sheet (.doc file, 40 KB)
- Microsoft SQL Data Services Fact Sheet (.doc file, 41 KB)
- SQL Server – Developer Focus (.doc file, 33 KB)
PDC 2008 Day 1 Videos
On-Demand PDC 2008 Keynote: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia, and David Thompson (01:38:30)
Microsoft chief technology officer Ray Ozzie introduced Windows Azure, the 'Windows in the cloud' service foundation underlying the Azure Services Platform, Microsoft's end-to-end software-plus-services approach to computing. Los Angeles, Oct. 27, 2008
Clips from the day 1 keynote
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Ray Ozzie introduces the new Windows Azure platform and discusses how it’s key to the future of cloud computing and software plus services.
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Ray Ozzie provides an overview of Windows Azure and the key benefits it brings to cloud computing.
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Key Services of Azure & cloud functionality
Ray Ozzie discusses some of the key services that make up the Azure Services Platform, including the new .NET Services and SQL Services.
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Bob Muglia talks about the relationship between .NET Services and Windows Azure.
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Walid Abu-Hadba: The Developer Opportunity (02:05)
The Corporate Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism on the PDC, customer and developer choice and the Azure Services Platform.
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Bob Muglia discusses Microsoft’s Services Platform (01:24)
Bob Muglia, Sr Vice President of Server and Tools Business, discusses Microsoft’s next generation Services Platform.
Show Off Contest Video 1 - ACE Lab
Developers from around the world showed off their coding, soldering, hacking and sculpting skills for the Professional Developers Conference 2008 show off contest – here are some of our favorites.
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Show Off Contest Video 2 - Brian the Build Bunny
Developers from around the world showed off their coding, soldering, hacking and sculpting skills for the Professional Developers Conference 2008 show off contest – here are some of our favorites.
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Show Off Contest Video 3 - Silverlight 2 Spectrum Emulator
Developers from around the world showed off their coding, soldering, hacking and sculpting skills for the Professional Developers Conference 2008 show off contest – here are some of our favorites.
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Azure Customer Video (03:03)
Sentient, Full Armor, Lake Quincy Media and others discuss the opportunities possible through the Azure Services Platform.
Channel 9 Interviews
- Lynne Hill: Parallel Computing Platform: The Vision and the Future
- Rick Rashid: A Researcher’s Researcher
- David Treadwell: What the heck are Microsoft’s Live Platform Services
- Scott Guthrie: PDC Keynote Preview
- Norman Guadagno: Visual Studio Team System
- Dave Campbell: Extending the Data Platform to the Cloud
- Amitabh Srivastava: Cloud Infrastructure Services
Speech Transcripts
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Remarks by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, Corporate Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Amitabh Srivastava; Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business, Bob Muglia; Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Online, Dave Thompson. Oct. 27, 2008, Los Angeles