PDC attendees to receive 'pre-alpha' code on USB drive in five weeks
(Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. confirmed today that it will hand out preview copies of Windows 7 to attendees at next month's Professional Developers Conference (PDC).
In a post to the PDC Web site, Microsoft said that developers would get a "pre-beta" release of Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, on Oct. 28.
"Keynote attendees will be among the first to receive the pre-beta build of Windows 7," the company said.
Steven Sinofsky, who heads Windows development, will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 28, the second day of the conference, which opens the day before and runs through Oct. 30 in Los Angeles.
Mike Swanson, a Microsoft technology evangelist working on the PDC, said earlier this week that attendees will receive a 160GB external USB hard drive that will contain all the developer bits from the conference. The USB drive will presumably include the pre-beta version of Windows 7.
Last week, Mike Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, said that he expected developers at either PDC or the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), which is scheduled for Nov. 5-7, to receive Windows 7 code.
"When that many developers [come] together, you want them to go home with something that they can play with," Cherry said then. "Microsoft will want to do more than just tell developers about Windows 7."...........
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(Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. confirmed today that it will hand out preview copies of Windows 7 to attendees at next month's Professional Developers Conference (PDC).
In a post to the PDC Web site, Microsoft said that developers would get a "pre-beta" release of Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, on Oct. 28.
"Keynote attendees will be among the first to receive the pre-beta build of Windows 7," the company said.
Steven Sinofsky, who heads Windows development, will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 28, the second day of the conference, which opens the day before and runs through Oct. 30 in Los Angeles.
Mike Swanson, a Microsoft technology evangelist working on the PDC, said earlier this week that attendees will receive a 160GB external USB hard drive that will contain all the developer bits from the conference. The USB drive will presumably include the pre-beta version of Windows 7.
Last week, Mike Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, said that he expected developers at either PDC or the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), which is scheduled for Nov. 5-7, to receive Windows 7 code.
"When that many developers [come] together, you want them to go home with something that they can play with," Cherry said then. "Microsoft will want to do more than just tell developers about Windows 7."...........
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9115470&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8
