PDC 2008: Recapping a week with Windows 7 and Azure

With the debut of Windows 7, Office 14 and its Web counterpart, along with a completely new Windows "operating system" for the cloud called Azure, PDC 2008 was a week that didn't let up. For those who didn't catch all of the news, here's a quick recap of our coverage.

Microsoft welcomes a new member to the Windows family: Azure

Live blog of Ray Ozzie's online services keynote

'Windows Azure' is Microsoft's cloud-based hosting service

Azure is, and isn't, Microsoft's answer to everyone else's challenge

FAQ: What is Windows Azure and why should you care?

More details on Windows Azure, the Internet operating system

Ray Ozzie and company present the cloud

Windows 7 makes its pre-beta debut

Live blog of the Windows 7 keynote

Cleaning up the desktop in Windows 7

Sinofsky acknowledges Vista UAC is a problem, Windows 7 adds options

Windows 7 will be lean, faster, and even embedded

More details on the new Windows 7 Taskbar

The hard job of moving on after Vista

Mike Nash answers your questions about Windows 7

Windows 7 will add a 'volume knob' to UAC

Look out for the 'delighters' in Windows 7

Will multitouch change the Windows application?

Office is now on the Web

First glimpses at Office apps on the Web

New tools for developers

Microsoft rolls out SDK for Surface interface

First look at 'Dublin,' .NET for the cloud

First in-depth look at ASP.NET MVC

Don Box stars as 'M,' the minister of sensibility

Toolkit for asynchronous programming emerges from robotics

Cross-platform .NET surprisingly makes a fast game scripting engine

Microsoft's cool toys

Windows 7, WS2K8 R2 will get PowerShell v2

Hands on with Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope beta

Live blog of the Microsoft Research keynote