Microsoft has canceled PDC 2004 and postponed PDC 2005.
PDC 2005 was originally scheduled for spring 2005, but it has been pushed back to at least the fall. If Microsoft follows their trends as of late to continue pushing things back then PDC 2005 might be canceled as well (or moved to 2006, depending on how you look at it).
A visit to PDC Central shows it still has not been updated since 2003. My first inclination is that PDC was canceled due to lack of interest. This may only be part of the cause. Microsoft has gone a really long time without a major release as of late. It is used to be that they had a release every year, every other year at most. These days their release cycle keeps getting longer and longer. Not sure what this is an indicator of. . . .
UPDATE: Turns out Microsoft only has PDC every 2 years. In related news, PDC 2005 has been announced.
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Unlike TechEd which is every year, the PDC is not scheduled annually. The last PDC before 2003 was 2001, and 2000 before that.
Microsoft usually uses the PDC to unveil significant new technologies, such as .NET or in this last one, Yukon, Whidbey, and Longhorn.
No new PDC was expected before Spring 2005, so a delay until Fall is not such a big deal.
Based upon Microsoft's roadmap, I wouldn't expect a PDC until either Whidbey & Yukon were complete or Orcas and Longhorn were significantly further along.
PDC is every other year. MSFT never had a PDC 2004 planned.
completely retarded. Not sure where these sources are coming from. My sources indicated to me in march of this year that the next PDC was to be held in San Diego in 2006. There was never to be a PDC 2004 nor a PDC 2005. Would love to know how it was determined these events were cancelled since they never existed.
The Los Angeles Convention Center calendar of events page at http://www.lacclink.com/general_event.htm#m0905 shows "September 7-17, Microsoft Corporation PDC 2005"
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