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July 11–14, 2000 - Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida
.NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET announced, initial beta release given to attendees
C# programming language announced and demonstrated
ASP+, the successor to Active Server Pages was announced; this was renamed ASP.NET later in the year
Announcement of the end of the Windows 9x line, culminating with a planned 2002 release of a new operating system, "Whistler"
Internet Explorer 5.5 was released
Estimated attendance of 6,000 developers
October 22–26, 2001 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California
Release candidates of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET were announced during Bill Gates' keynote.
Windows XP was officially released.
Introduction of Tablet PC, including a software development kit.
.NET My Services (codenamed HailStorm) announced.
.NET Compact Framework introduced.
First discussions of Internet Information Services version 6.
Counting Crows performed at the PDC party at the Staples Center.
October 27–30, 2003 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California
Windows Longhorn revealed - Avalon, Aero, Indigo, WinFS
September 13–16, 2005 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California
Windows Vista build 5219 handed out to attendees
Internet Explorer 7 demoed
Office 12 demoed with ribbon bar
.NET 2.0
October 27–30, 2008 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
First demonstration of Windows 7 as well as Office 14 for the Web .
Introduction of Windows Azure, Microsoft's data center hosting platform.
Outlook to .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and a new .NET Application Server (codenamed "Dublin").
Release of Microsoft Surface SDK and first demonstration of SecondLight, a next generation Surface prototype.
November 17–20, 2009 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California
Vision of Three Screens and a Cloud
Emergence of Windows Azure with billed, commercial service to begin in February 2010.
Many back-end announcements:
Microsoft AppFabric, based on the earlier .NET Application Server and the caching technology (formerly codenamed "Velocity").
Microsoft SQL Server Modeling Services (SSModS) released (formerly codenamed "Oslo")
BizTalk Server 2009 R2 announced with new features like an improved mapper for early 2010 release
Many front-end announcements:
Release of first public betas for Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Silverlight 4
Early revelations about Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and its objective of better Acid3 performance and HTML5/CSS3 compliance.
A special "PDC 2009" Acer 1420p Multi-touch Tablet PC was given out to all attendees (the BIOS referencing MSFT in the 'about' information.)
October 28–29, 2010 - Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington
Announced new Platform Features for Cloud Computing
VmRoles announced to port existing on-premises Applications to the Cloud
Microsoft "Dallas" renamed to Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
Windows Azure Marketplace Applications announced
An unlocked Windows Phone 7 smartphone was given out to all attendees
Microsoft limited the number of attendees to 1,000
Many public viewing events all over the globe (e.g. Tokyo, London, Cologne, Vienna)