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• 20 Years of PDC Keynotes Online

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on May 21 2011, 01:17 AM

  Filed under: WinFS, WinFX, PDC 2003, PDC 2005, WPF/E, Windows Server "Longhorn", PDC 2007, PDC 2008, Windows "Longhorn", PDC 2010

  When I heard earlier today that Microsoft had put all of the Microsoft PDC keynotes online , I was very excited. But I have to admit, it was for selfish reasons. Because I would finally get to tell one of my favorite experiences. Apologies for the self
  

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• Enable The SuperBar in Windows 7 Pre-Beta!

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 02 2008, 07:05 PM

  Filed under: Windows 7, PDC 2008

  One of the big disappointments of the Pre-Beta build was the lack of the New Taskbar, which is referred to internally as the SuperBar. We had been told that the feature was not in the build at all. But Raphael, one of our friends from Within Windows,
  

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• Posting Will Be Light Today

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 28 2008, 12:39 PM

  Filed under: Windows 7, PDC 2008, Office 14

  Unfortunately, my travel arrangements are forcing me to head home today, and I’ll be spending a good portion of the day in the air. So I’ll be missing out on all the cool stuff going on today, but I’ll be wrapping up my in-depth review of Windows 7 on
  

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• Ray Ozzie Keynote – Live!

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 27 2008, 10:16 AM

  Filed under: Silverlight, PDC 2008, Windows Azure, SQL Services

  10:15am: That’s a wrap folks! Thanks for joining me for what turned out to be an exhausting experience ;). 10:12am: “We ourselves are betting on our own platform with our own apps. You are the first ones that are going to have access to our Azure SDK
  

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• PDC 2008, Here I Come! (and a Caption Contest)

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 25 2008, 12:00 PM

  Filed under: PDC 2003, PDC 2005, Live Mesh, Windows 7, .NET 4.0, PDC 2008

  At practically the last minute, I was invited to a briefing at PDC on Windows 7. As exciting as it all sounded, I wasn’t planning on attending at all… but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to be one of the first to get a guided tour the hotly-anticipated
  

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