Speaker Lineup for PDC Includes Gates, Allchin

Bill Gates will kick off, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 with the keynote on September 13, Microsoft announced this weekend.

The presence of Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect, to support this version of the show, which is Microsofts an important event for the development. The exhibition will be held in Los Angeles, the site of the former PDC, in 2003. Microsoft did not hold the event last year.

People Jim Allchin, group vice president for platforms, will follow Gates with the keynote on the opening day of the meeting. Pdc05 speaker of the lineup Wednesday, September 14, including the rudder Eric Li, senior vice president of server and tools Steven sinofsky, senior vice president of office.

Pdc05 will focus on providing developers with in-depth understanding of the use of new WinFX programming model, which includes the Windows Presentation Foundation, code-named "original" and the communications on the basis of Windows, codenamed " Indigo. " Exhibition agenda also committed to the details of the products, Microsofts pipeline, including Windows Vista and SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 in Internet Explorer 7.0, Office 12 and Internet Information Services 7.0 program runs through September 16. More information is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/.

Editors note: This article has been updated to correct the code name associate with the Windows-based correction.