(IMG:http://i37.tinypic.com/10fe25y.png) After the huge success of PDC last week here comes the technical chunk of information from the team at Redmond. Microsoft this week is holding their yearly WinHEC Conference at the LA Convention Center, starting on Wednesday we will be following the news from sessions, urls and republishing the whitepapers for new Microsoft developments. PDC was no doubt a wash of new user interface ideas and presentation techniques, now we get to see what hardware will support the new software. This week we might see machines from HP like the Athens PC from not so long ago.

This years WinHEC is focused on deep technical interaction with the Windows 7 Team, Following of this event here at joejoe will be vital to understanding how Windows 7 and the technologies behind it work. Alike the PDC Conference many attendees will be taking home a Maxtor® BlackArmor™ 160GB External Hard Drives – 50 drives will be given away daily! Also every attendee will be recieving a Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build, Probably 6801 handed out at PDC.

Your news team here at joejoe will be following the event in the News-Break forum, please comment with all your reactions and please pitch a question to the news poster as we will be able to find out the answer for you! What are you looking forward to this week at WinHEC?

Official WinHEC Website
Official Windows 7 Site

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As many of you know today is the start of PDC in America. There are many new technologies that should be unveiled within the next 3 days. joejoe.org news team will be online to cover every keynote and session. Although because this site is worldwide there might be a slight delay in publishing the session reviews.

The event is running from the 27th until the 30th with 2 main keynotes, one on Monday and the second on Tuesday.

Please make sure your checking "News Break" to get the latest from PDC.

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(IMG:http://www.joejoe.org/storage/vistaorb.png) Mary Jo Foley has recently posted an article in which she believes Windows 7 could be released far earlier than the previous date of January 2010 (exactly three years after the release of Vista). In her article she notes that Microsoft does not want another January release, rather she predicts a pre-summer holiday release so it can be preloaded, onto back-to-school notebooks in particular.

OEMs are also starting to admit that they expect Windows 7 towards the end of 2009, but by far the biggest clue to a 2009 release is found on the official WinHEC website where it says:


Now you may think that the next WinHEC is going to be October/November next year, but in fact it is currently scheduled for New Orleans for the days of May 3-7. However keep in mind that this year’s WinHEC was also scheduled around May but was postponed, so Microsoft could do the same with next years.

Finally with Vista’s SP2 arriving soon (or at least a Beta of it) it could be the final service pack for Vista. Particularly when you realise that XP only got Service Pack 3 this year, its 7th year since release whereas Vista is not even two years old yet. If Windows 7 does indeed get released early next year it would be at least 10 months ahead of the ‘public’ schedule and it could be that Microsoft wanted to be 100% sure that 7 would arrive on time. Finished.

(IMG:http://www.joejoe.org/img/world_link.png) Source: All About Microsoft (ZDNet)

(IMG:http://www.joejoe.org/storage/vista.png) Microsoft this week revealed there will be a Vista SP2 and it will arrive prior to the release of Windows 7, Microsoft’s next consumer operating system. Neowin has today received some insider information regarding the second service pack for Vista (and Server 2008), stating that Microsoft has sent out beta testing invites to a group of people.

The pack includes ‘Windows Search 4’, Bluetooth wireless support, support for the new VIA 64-bit CPU and more application compatibility updates.

The service packs are anticipated to go to a possibly public Beta within 4 weeks.

(IMG:http://www.joejoe.org/img/world_link.png) Source: Neowin