14 DAY TRIAL // In less than three months, Microsoft will dish out everything about Windows 8, or at least this is the promise from a tweet on the BUILD Windows Twitter account (@bldwin). The evolution of the Professional Developers Conference was announced earlier this month, and the BUILD site has been live since the company’s Windows 8 announcements at D9 and Computex, as well as has the Twitter account for the event.
“BUILD is the new MSFT event for modern hardware and software developers! Join us September 13-16, 2011. Anaheim, CA,” reads the company’s description on Twitter.
I took a moment today to review all of the tweets that the Redmond company posted since @bldwin went live, with the first message inviting people to join with Microsoft in BUILDing the future with Windows 8.
"The BUILD conference in September will have "everything" about Windows 8," the software giant promises a few tweets later.
Everything about Windows 8 sure sounds good to me. And I actually interpret this message to mean that BUILD participants will get not only insight into Windows 8, but the actual bits as well.
BUILD is a developer-focused event, of course, but not a traditional PDC. This because of the dev platform evolution in Windows 8 which will support applications built with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
Here are some additional messages posted by @bldwin:
"On day one, when Windows 8 ships, hundreds of millions of developers will already know how to develop for it."
"We have a *lot* more information to share with software developers...it's all going to be at the BUILD conference" – Anguilo
"Laptops, slates, desktops - all can run one operating system," Steven Sinofsky on Win8. And he should know.
“Designing the upgrade to a 25-year-old operating system, and BUILDing for the future.”