Windows 7 alpha at PDC
Microsoft Corp. has confirmed that it will provide developers with preview copies of Windows 7 at next month’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC). 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. Keynote attendees will be among the first to receive the pre-beta build of Windows 7.
Reports suggest that the 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.
Microsoft has also added many Windows 7-specific sessions to the PDC, like “New APIs to Find, Visualize and Organize,” “Integrate with the Windows 7 Desktop Taskbar” and “Best Practices for Developing for Windows Standard User.”
With this announcement, the speculations and hype around Windows Vista’s successor has reached new heights and many are confident that Microsoft will learn from its mistakes and deliver a better Windows by end 2009.
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