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• PDC: "SuperFetch" to accelerate application boot time in Vista
  Tuesday 13 September 2005 – 09:14
  Microsoft executive Jim Allchin today previewed a new feature in Windows that can significantly increase the speed applications are loaded and extend the virtual memory of a computer system by accessing secondary and peripheral storage devices such as USB Flash memory sticks.
• PDC: Next-gen command line tool slated for 2006 general release
  Thursday 15 September 2005 – 07:04
  In a keynote speech this morning at Microsoft Professional Developers' Conference, the company's senior vice president, Bob Muglia, brought to an end at least some of the speculation about the future of Monad, the company's next-generation command line tool. A final non-beta edition will be made available, along with the release of the new Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Solution (CCS), during the first half of 2006.
• PDC: Microsoft demos "Expression" web development suite
  Wednesday 14 September 2005 – 09:45
  In the week leading up to Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference here, the code-word "Sparkle" had been leaked to reporters, with the signal that a suite of applications was coming along that would be a "Flash killer." This morning, the company formally unveiled its "Expression" Web development suite, which more accurately appeared to be targeted at Macromedia's Studio suite, which is spearheaded by Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
• PDC Attendees to Receive Windows 7 Pre-beta
  Friday 26 September 2008 – 09:40 in Business
  Microsoft has announced that those attending this year's PDC will receive pre-beta versions of Windows 7.
• PDC: Microsoft's Greg Sullivan on XML, information systems, Google
  Monday 19 September 2005 – 09:45
  Toward the end of Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference here on Thursday, we sat down with the company's group product manager for Windows, Greg Sullivan, to chat about the emergence of a "big picture" vision of Windows appearing and working everywhere, not just on PCs, but on handheld devices, the back ends of digital cameras, and the ice makers on refrigerators. Connecting all these seemingly unrelated devices is a standards-driven contextual information sharing system that Microsoft - and perhaps only Microsoft - is developing.

• Microsoft promises world domination at PDC*
  Monday 19 September 2005 – 06:00
  Our PDC wrap up looks at the announcements from the conference last week and one clear direction emerges: true world domination of the PC platform. Linux weenies beware!