PDC cancellation 'Not a Shock'
ENT News | at | by Mike
Microsoft announced the cancellation of its semi-annual Professional Developer's Conference last week, leading to lots of Internet speculation on the reason. But conspiracy theorists should take a breath: The reason may well be as mundane as the fact that it just isn't necessary this year.
"I was surprised but not shocked" at the PDC's cancellation, said Billy Hollis, a well-known developer, Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic, and author who has been a PDC speaker in the past. "The last 18 months or so have seen biggest rollout of new technologies at Microsoft maybe in their history -- new versions of Office, the .NET framework, new OSes."