WinHEC Keynotes

At the first-day keynote of WinHEC 2007, Bill Gates announced "Windows Server 2008" as the official name of Longhorn server, now in Beta 3. He featured some currently available technologies, such as Windows Rally wireless networking, in the first half of the keynote.

The second half focused on a few R&D projects and a look ahead at coming trends. Bill predicts that 64-bit processor will reach 100% market penetration in the server, desktop and mobile markets in the next couple of years. He also pointed to Microsoft's heavy investment in natural user interfaces such as voice and handwriting input. Microsoft is positioning itself to extend the traditional business and home computing networks to include cell phones in a variety of ways. See the whole day one keynote webcast archive.

Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich will be delivering the Wednesday keynote: "Windows Server Platform Internals", along with Mike Nash and Bill Laing. A live stream should be available Webnesday morning at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx.

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