Microsoft Cancels Developer Conference
Microsoft has decided to cancel its scheduled 2007 Professional Developer's Conference, previously slated to take place in Los Angeles the first week of October. The company says its new developer tools are already available to customers.
Traditionally, PDC is held every two years to preview major Microsoft platform advances, and preview technologies before their release. PDC 03 highlighted Windows Vista -- Longhorn at the time -- while PDC 05 reiterated that focus with Vista and Office 2007, as well as the recently launched Expression Suite.
"By this fall, however, upcoming platform technologies including Windows Server 2008, SQL Server codenamed “Katmai,” Visual Studio codenamed “Orcas” and Silverlight will already be in developers’ hands and approaching launch, which is where we’ll focus our developer engagement in the near term," Microsoft wrote on its PDC Web site.
In addition, Microsoft has launched a new conference for Web-oriented development called MIX and is putting major effort into expanding its yearly TechEd conference, scheduled for June 4-8 in Orlando, Florida. TechEd is larger than PDC and delves into the nitty gritty technical details for IT pros and developers.
Microsoft will also have a presence at the VSLive! conferences in Las Vegas and New York this fall, as well as DevConnections in Las Vegas and November's TechEd Barcelona. Still, the company is not ruling out rescheduling PDC for a later date.
"We will update this site when we have a new date for the PDC that is better timed with the next wave of platform technologies," it said.