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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

's Professional Developers Conference (or PDC) is a conference for software developer
Software developer
A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management...

s, normally Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 developers.

It covers new and upcoming technology from Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, and so only occurs in the years when there is something new to talk about. The conference is typically hosted by the Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles Convention Center
The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in the southwest portion of downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show and Anime Expo, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3...

 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

.

Events

  • July 1992 - Moscone Center
    Moscone Center
    Moscone Center is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. It comprises three main halls: Two underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, known as Moscone North and Moscone South, and a three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street...

     in San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California
    San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

    • Known as Win32 Professional Developers Conference
    • First demonstration of the Win32 API and first mention of "Chicago", which would eventually become Windows 95
      Windows 95
      Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant progression from the company's previous Windows products...

    • Estimated attendance of over 5,000 developers
    • Windows NT 3.1 Preliminary Release for Developers (build 297) was sent to all conference attendees
  • December 1993 - Anaheim Convention Center
    Anaheim Convention Center
    The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities...

     in Anaheim, California
    Anaheim, California
    Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was about 365,463, making it the most populated city in Orange County, the 10th most-populated city in California, and ranked 54th in the United States...

    • Windows "Chicago"
    • Win32 and Object Linking and Embedding
      Object Linking and Embedding
      Object Linking and Embedding is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. For developers, it brought OLE Control eXtension , a way to develop and use custom user interface elements...

       version 2
    • Estimated attendance of over 8,000
    • Cairo
      Cairo (operating system)
      Cairo was the code name for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996. Its charter was to build technologies for a next generation operating system that would fulfill Bill Gates' vision of "information at your fingertips." Cairo never shipped, although portions of its technologies have since...

       public demonstration, including the Object File System
  • March 1996 - Moscone Center
    Moscone Center
    Moscone Center is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. It comprises three main halls: Two underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, known as Moscone North and Moscone South, and a three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street...

     in San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California
    San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

    • Microsoft demonstrated the power of new tools, renamed ActiveX
    • The ActiveX demos were impressive despite occasional technical difficulties. 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.
  • September 1997 - San Diego Convention Center
    San Diego Convention Center
    The San Diego Convention Center is the primary convention center in San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive...

     in San Diego, California
    San Diego, California
    San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...

    • First demonstrations of Windows NT 5.0
      Windows 2000
      Windows 2000 is a line of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, business desktops, laptops, and servers. Windows 2000 was released to manufacturing on 15 December 1999 and launched to retail on 17 February 2000. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the...

      , release of Beta 1 to developers
    • Estimated attendance of 6,200
  • October 11–15, 1998 - Colorado Convention Center
    Colorado Convention Center
    The Colorado Convention Center is a multi-purpose convention center located in Downtown Denver. The center opened in June 1990; the first event being the NBA Draft for the Denver Nuggets. The convention center was expanded in 2004 to include several meeting rooms, two ballrooms and an indoor...

    , Denver, Colorado
    Denver, Colorado
    The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

    • Windows NT 5.0 (aka Windows 2000
      Windows 2000
      Windows 2000 is a line of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, business desktops, laptops, and servers. Windows 2000 was released to manufacturing on 15 December 1999 and launched to retail on 17 February 2000. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the...

       beta release to attendees)
    • Windows DNA
      Windows DNA
      Windows DNA is short for Windows Distributed interNet Applications Architecture, a marketing name for a collection of Microsoft technologies that enable the Windows platform and the Internet to work together. Some of the principal technologies comprising DNA include ActiveX, Dynamic HTML and COM...

       technology announced, including COM+
  • July 11–14, 2000 - Orange County Convention Center
    Orange County Convention Center
    The Orange County Convention Center is the primary public convention center for the Central Florida region. The center currently ranks as the second largest convention center in the United States . The OCCC offers of total space, of which is exhibit space...

     in Orlando, Florida
    Orlando, Florida
    Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...

    • .NET Framework
      .NET Framework
      The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

       and Visual Studio .NET announced, initial beta release given to attendees
    • C# programming language announced and demonstrated
    • ASP+
      ASP.NET
      ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...

      , the successor to Active Server Pages
      Active Server Pages
      Active Server Pages , also known as Classic ASP or ASP Classic, was Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Initially released as an add-on to Internet Information Services via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack Active Server Pages (ASP), also known as Classic...

       was announced; this was renamed ASP.NET later in the year
    • Announcement of the end of the Windows 9x
      Windows 9x
      Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows computer operating systems produced since 1995, which were based on the original and later modified Windows 95 kernel...

       line, culminating with a planned 2002 release of a new operating system, "Whistler"
    • Internet Explorer 5.5
      Internet Explorer 5
      Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 was a graphical web browser released in March 1999 by Microsoft, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but initially with versions available for Apple Macintosh, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX. It was one of the main participants of the first browser war...

       was released
    • Estimated attendance of 6,000 developers
  • October 22–26, 2001 - Los Angeles Convention Center
    Los Angeles Convention Center
    The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in the southwest portion of downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show and Anime Expo, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3...

     in Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    • Release candidates of the .NET Framework
      .NET Framework
      The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

       and Visual Studio .NET were announced during Bill Gates
      Bill Gates
      William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...

      ' keynote.
    • Windows XP
      Windows XP
      Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base...

       was officially released.
    • Introduction of Tablet PC
      Tablet computer
      A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

      s, including a software development kit.
    • .NET My Services (codenamed Hailstorm) announced.
    • .NET Compact Framework
      .NET Compact Framework
      The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is a version of the .NET Framework that is designed to run on resource constrained mobile/embedded devices such as personal digital assistants , mobile phones, factory controllers, set-top boxes, etc...

       introduced.
    • First discussions of Internet Information Services
      Internet Information Services
      Internet Information Services – formerly called Internet Information Server – is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows. It is the most used web server after Apache HTTP Server. IIS 7.5 supports HTTP, HTTPS,...

       version 6.
    • The Counting Crows performed at the PDC party at the Staples Center
      Staples Center
      Staples Center is a multi-purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex along Figueroa Street. Opening on October 17, 1999, it is one of the major sporting facilities in the Greater Los Angeles...

      .
  • October 27–30, 2003 - Los Angeles Convention Center
    Los Angeles Convention Center
    The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in the southwest portion of downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show and Anime Expo, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3...

     in Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    • Windows Longhorn revealed - Avalon, Aero, Indigo, WinFS
  • September 13–16, 2005 - Los Angeles Convention Center
    Los Angeles Convention Center
    The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in the southwest portion of downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show and Anime Expo, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3...

     in Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    • Vista beta 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
    Los Angeles Convention Center
    The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in the southwest portion of downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show and Anime Expo, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3...

     in Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    ..
    • 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
      Microsoft Surface
      Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of gesture recognition. This could involve the motion of hands or physical objects. It was...

       SDK and first demonstration of SecondLight, a next generation Surface prototype.
  • November 17–20, 2009 - Los Angeles Convention Center
    Los Angeles Convention Center
    The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in the southwest portion of downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show and Anime Expo, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3...

     in Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    • 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
        Internet Explorer 9
        Windows Internet Explorer 9 is the current version of the Internet Explorer web browser from Microsoft. It was released to the public on March 14, 2011 at 21:00 PDT. Internet Explorer 9 supports several CSS 3 properties, embedded ICC v2 or v4 color profiles support via Windows Color System, and...

         and its objective of better Acid3
        Acid3
        Acid3 test is a web test page from the Web Standards Project that checks a web browser's compliance with elements of various web standards, particularly the Document Object Model and JavaScript....

         performance and HTML5/CSS3
        Cascading Style Sheets
        Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...

         compliance.
    • A special "PDC 2009" Acer 1420p Multi-touch Tablet PC was given out to all attendees (the BIOS written by Microsoft.)
  • October 28–29, 2010 - Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington
    Redmond, Washington
    Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located east of Seattle. The population was 54,144 at the 2010 census,up from 45,256 in 2000....

    • Announced new Platform Features for Cloud Computing
    • VmRoles announced to port existing on-premise 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)

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