Microsoft was not planning to hold a Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year. But company officials changed their minds and announced this week that they will hold PDC10 in Redmond at Microsoft headquarters on October 28 and 29.
This isn’t going to be a traditional PDC. It will be focused almost entirely on cloud computing, rather than Windows, for one. Secondly, it will be a combined live and virtual event. It sounds like live attendance is going to be limited to about 1,000 or so people, with the rest of those interested being told to watch the keynotes and sessions via Webcast.
Developers and IT pros are still the intended audience for this year’s PDC, as they typically have been for previous ones. But the emphasis of this year’s event will be on developing applications that can run on-premises and/or in the private and public cloud.
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