PDC 2009: Day 3

Today took place the second Keynote. The one in charge was Steven Sinofsky, the president of the Windows Division at Microsoft. The Keynote was basically focused on Windows 7, in my opinion, it was a great Keynote, specially the part when he showed in numbers the hard work they did, like for example how many unknown devices were plugged in (< 800.000), how many bug reports were received and how many unknown software was installed (< 80.000).

When Steven was ending his presentation he announced that every attendee will receive this excellent laptop.

The second part of the Keynote was driven by ScottGu’s . Scott announced Silverlight 4 and showed some cool stuff like leveraging the webcam and microphone, the CLR now enables the same compiled code to be run on the desktop and Silverlight without change, all the complete list of enhancements can be found here.

Then I went to see Scott Hanselman’s presentation named “ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninjas Still on Fire Black Belt Tips“,I know I’m not discovering anything new, but he is really a great presenter, I really enjoyed his presentation.

After lunch we went to the Partners Hall to see the Windows Azure Container and we met ScottGu, below you will see some evidence

Tomorrow is the last day of this great conference, it will finish near 4 pm. See you tomorrow.

Tags: Events, PDC 2009, Trips