When Microsoft opened up registration for its Expert Developers Conference in early August, enterprise officials shared previews of 25 of the planned periods.On September one, Microsoft published 31 a lot more PDC session descriptions. Not too surprisingly, provided that Microsoft strategies to eliminate the “beta” designation from its Azure hosting platform around the time with the show, there are lots much more Azure developer sessions now on the PDC docket (including one that promises to detail how Azure has changed since Microsoft first described it at last year;s PDC and where it;s going in the future). As I blogged recently, Microsoft;s been removing a number of the pieces with the Azure cloud platform firm officials outlined last year.There are a couple of new periods on the SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight realtime complex-event-processing technology that Microsoft recently released to testers. For Windows and Windows Server developers, there are some new sessions on Windows Communications Foundation 4.0 and the Dublin app server.This year;s PDC is slated for mid-November. I;m hearing Microsoft may be moving back toward making PDC an annual event, but no official confirmation of that… Also, somewhat surprisingly, there are still no sessions listed on Windows Mobile (either 6.5 or 7.0). But Microsoft is trickling out the session abstracts gradually,
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