WinInfo Daily UPDATE, December 9, 2004

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In the News - Microsoft Schedules Second Longhorn PDC for September 2005==== In the News ==== by Paul Thurrott, [email protected] Microsoft Schedules Second Longhorn PDC for September 2005 At the October 2003 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), Microsoft laid out its plans for Longhorn, the next-generation version of Windows that, today, is still almost 2 years from shipping. A lot has happened since the 2003 conference--the company basically took a year off from core Longhorn development to backtrack and fix glaring security holes in Windows XP. But with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) completed and Windows Server 2003 SP1 now feature complete and in the release candidate stage, Microsoft is turning its attention, once again, to Longhorn. In keeping with the planned mid-2006 release of Longhorn, Microsoft is planning the first widespread Longhorn beta release in 2005 and will again prep developers for the upcoming monumental release with another PDC event. PDC 2005 will be held in September in Los Angeles, Microsoft revealed late yesterday. "The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the definitive developer event focused on the future of the Microsoft platform," a post on Microsoft's Web site states, noting that PDC 2005 will run from September 13-16 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, site of PDC 2003. "PDC 2005 offers attendees the opportunity to learn, connect and engage with Microsoft's platform developers and the global developer community with keynotes, breakout sessions, interactive labs, access to the latest code, community forums, and much, much more." Much more indeed. Some of the PDC 2003 keynote addresses were like rock concerts, with Microsoft executives showing off, for the first time, tantalizing peeks at their Longhorn plans. PDC 2005 will likely be an even bigger event because developers will have feature-laden Longhorn betas, not early Longhorn alphas, with which to work. And a lot has changed since PDC 2003: In August, Microsoft decided to port key Longhorn technologies such as Avalon (presentations) and Indigo (Web services) to Windows 2003 and XP and to remove WinFS, a database-backed storage engine, from Longhorn. WinFS will ship as a free Longhorn add-on when Longhorn Server ships in 2007, Microsoft officials tell me. "The Windows Division, and Microsoft in general, is really getting geared up and ready for Longhorn," Microsoft Group Program Manager Todd Wanke, who oversaw development of XP SP2, told me recently. "With the Longhorn wave, we stopped the train, went back, and fixed some problems in XP. Now we're ready to focus on Longhorn." On a personal note, PDC 2003 was a watershed event, and Keith Furman and I plan to cover PDC 2005 next year with the same aplomb we displayed at PDC 2003. Still available on the SuperSite for Windows (see the URL below) are our exploits from PDC 2003, during which we posted continuous blog-type updates, photos, screen-shot galleries, product reviews, and even videos. http://www.itprotoday.com/article/reviews/windows-longhorn-live-from-pdc-2003.aspx ==== Announcement ==== (from Windows IT Pro and its partners) Are You a Hacker Target? You are if you have an Internet connection faster than 384Kbps. In this free, live Web seminar on December 14, Alan Sugano will examine two attacks (an SMTP Auth Attack and a SQL Attack) that let spammers get into the network and relay spam. Find out how to keep the hackers out of your network, and what to do if your mail server is blacklisted as an open relay. Attend and you could win an Xbox. Register now! http://www.windowsitpro.com/seminars/antispam/index.cfm?code=1206emailannc ==== Events Central ==== (A complete Web and live events directory brought to you by Windows IT Pro: http://www.windowsitpro.com/events ) Get a Free Windows IT Pro Subscription at the Server Consolidation Roadshow Come and join us for this free event and find out how a more strategic and holistic approach to IT planning helps organizations increase operational efficiency and facilitate the implementation of new technology. Attend and get a free 6-month digital Windows IT Pro subscription. Plus, you could win an iPod! Sign up today. http://www.windowsitpro.com/roadshows/serverconsolidation/index.cfm?code=1206emailannc ==== Contact Us ==== About the newsletter -- [email protected]
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