14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is getting ready for a more intimate Professional Developers Conference this year at the end of October 2010, but those devs that didn’t hurry to register now will no longer be able to, try as they might.
The Redmond company confirmed officially that PDC 2010 is officially sold out, despite only five weeks having passed since it invited participants to register.
With no new major release of Windows planned for 2011, the software giant has moved away from the traditional PDC events it hosted in the past year.
PDC 2010 for example will not take place in Los Angeles, but right on the Redmond campus, in the Microsoft Conference Center, or Building 33.
“There are many good reasons behind this decision, and one of them is to provide a more intimate and engaging experience for our in-person attendees. You see, this is the first time in PDC history that we’ve held the event on our own campus".
“Holding the event on campus enables us to do a lot of things that we could never do in a remote location, but it also has its limitations".
“For example, the Microsoft Conference Center is nowhere near the size of a Los Angeles Convention Center (not even close). That means that we have physical limitations including how many people we can safely accommodate,” revealed Microsoft’s Mike Swanson.
Swanson also provided an extensive explanation of why the software giant is simply incapable of fitting any more people in the conference room.
However, as I mentioned above, this year’s PDC is a very special event. And due to very limited number of participants that can be fitted into MSCC, the Redmond company will be providing extensive coverage of the event online.
“This year more than ever, we’re amplifying what we provide online. PDC, MIX, and Tech•Ed attendees have become accustomed to full-screen, high-definition broadcasts of our keynotes and 24-hour-or-less, free downloads of all session content,” Swanson stated.
“Yes, we’ll do the same for PDC10 (with some new enhancements), but we’ll also stream all of our sessions live…for free…for anyone,” he added.
PDC10 is scheduled to start at 9:00 am PST on October 28, and developers have the option to watch the event via the live stream.
Microsoft explained that the “sessions will be separated into three tracks:
•A Cloud Track that will focus on all cloud services topics with an emphasis on the Azure Services Platform
•A Client Track that will focus on all client topics including Windows Phone 7, IE9, and much more.
•A Frameworks Track that will go deeper into the inner working of.NET than at any previous event.”