In this PDC2008 talk, Chuck Lenzmeier - the Architect in Azure team explains how the Virtual Images of OS works in the Azure cloud data centers. His Bio in PDC2008 says that Chuck has been with Microsoft since 1989, and worked on all versions of Windows from NT 3.1 to Vista. The below video really helps...

I was in the talk by Andrew Fitzhugh from HP's Magcloud.com. The site is HP's attempt to do on demand publishing of magazines and allow anyone to publish, sell and distribute magazines. An interesting statistics that was shown that in USA about 3.6Billion magazines were delivered to US News stands...

Today was the keynote by Rick Rashid, Sr. VP from Microsoft Research. Notes on the session: Why is fundamental research important to a company like Microsoft or country like USA. It is to survive tough times, about agility through your earlier investments and having smart people Talked about Terminator...

This session was done very well by Eric Schmidt (Director, Microsoft). Some top-level highlights were: 34 top level events sorted by icons At the peak, 17 live separate events were happening 2000 hours of live content and 2200 Highlight content that was created The result was staggering: 1.3 Billion...

The announcements made in this keynote today was picked by every media around the world, so I will be brief. You can watch the full keynote from here . Windows 7 The improvements were on decreasing Memory, Disk I/O, Power consumption and on Increasing Speed (Faster Boot, Device Ready), Responsiveness...

After showing preview of Silverlight for Mobile two years back, Microsoft has been absolutely silent. Since there was no news for a long time I presumed they have killed this project. After seeing this session today I am glad the project is alive and getting closer to release. In this session by Amit...

I am right now in Microsoft Project “Velocity” talk in PDC2008 by Muralidhar Krishnaprasad. Microsoft has been promising a distributed (and in-memory) cache system for a long long time. If I remember right it was first talked about in COM/ASP days. After that in every Microsoft event a version of it...

This was by far the best session for me in PDC2008. It was SQL Server: Database to Data Platform - Road from Server to Devices to the Cloud by David Campbell, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and SQL Server guru. David was brilliant, you could clearly see and appreciate his deep expertise on the subject...

You can see the photos I took from here . Ray Ozzie For the last few years, the scope of enterprise applications are increasing. IT departments have to manage more of outside users (their customers) than their internal users More of IT Pros and Developers have to work together and learn together in this...

In the afternoon there was a lively session by TV fame (Cricket Commentator) Harsha Bhogle. He was representing his management consultancy firm Prosearch Consultants. The talk was on T20 Cricket game and the differences of the format with One-Day / Test cricket. The title was very apt as the Microsoft...