Microsoft's jewels ready for a close-up
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference taking place in Los Angeles between Oct. 26th-30th is considered one of its most important in close to a decade. PDC will unveil early pre-beta code of its next-generation Windows operating system ("Longhorn"), its Visual Studio developer tools ("Whidbey") and SQL Server ("Yukon").
Together, the early builds represent three of the largest products of the world's largest software company, which revolve around its Windows product, whose own upgrade cycle drives the rest of the technology industry.