Every now and then some high profile personality, perhaps one who once had close ties to Microsoft, about how .NET is really a total failure.  How it's clear that it isn't going anywhere.  That, as proof of these assertions, Microsoft cannot even manage to use it for its own products, so why should we?  Personally I think these ...

Jim Allchin gave the second keynote, which included many demos from a variety of Microsoft teams and a couple of partners.  Most of it centered around new features that will be available in Vista.  For example, their virtual memory system will be able to take advantage of external memory, such as from USB drives.  They ...

Bill Gates gave this morning's first keynote at PDC 05.  As is customary, he had a video to augment his presentation.  These are usually very funny, but this one didn't do much for me (it was about Bill as a recruiter or something, but I didn't think they pulled it off well).  However, he did make a great comment that ...