March 13 from 8am - 6pm Pacific Standard Time

At the PDC

8:00-9:00 PST  Key Note
Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO
Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, will present his vision for the future of the Internet and the computer industry. He'll discuss ways you can leverage today's Win32 applications on the Internet and how you can enhance them with new interfaces.

9:00-10:00  Microsoft's Internet Strategy
Paul Maritz, Senior Vice President - The Platforms Group
This session will focus on Microsoft's Internet strategy. Paul Maritz, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Platforms Group, will cover the platforms and tools you'll use this year to produce multimedia web content and take your existing Win32/OLE based applications to the Internet.

10:00-10:45  Windows The Year Ahead
Steve Madigan, Group Program Manager - Desktop and Business Systems Division
This session will cover the new technologies coming to the Microsoft Windows platform in the next year. You'll get information on the new user interface featuring "Sweeper"; communications technologies such as TAPI, speech, data conferencing, and Windows Sockets; the high-performance Windows NT 4.0 architecture.

10:45-11:00  Break

11:00-12:00  Microsoft Internet Platform
John Ludwig, Vice President - Internet Platform and Tools Division
This session gives details on our platform strategy.

12:00-1:00  Internet Client Architecture
Chris Jones, Program Manager - Internet Platform and Tools Division
This session will cover details of Microsoft's Internet Client Architecture code named "Sweeper." You'll find out how the "Sweeper" architecture allows you to create object-based distributed applications. You can leverage your existing investment as well as create new dynamic applications and content to make the Internet rich, exciting, and accessible. There will also be an overview of the multilingual features in IE 3.0, with demos.

1:00-1:30  Break

1:30-2:30  Internet Server Architecture
J Allard, Program Manager - Internet Platform and Tools Division
The Internet Information Server is HOT! J. Allard will dive into the core features, functionality, and future of Microsoft's Internet Information Server. He'll detail information on how you can use the Information Server API (ISAPI) to extend your web site.

2:30-3:30  Internet Development Environment
Bob Muglia, Vice President - Internet Platform and Tools Division
Bob will discuss Microsoft's development tools with Internet features. You'll come away with technical information on how you can use these tools to create great content and applications for the Internet.

3:30-3:45  Break

3:45-4:45  Writing a Great Internet Application
Cameron Ferroni, Program Manager - Desktop and Business Systems Division
This session will look at the evolution of Internet applications from telnet to the Web and beyond. It will provide a roadmap for Win32 and OLE developers. You'll see how to take your existing applications and enable them for the web, extend them beyond the web, and create new applications to take advantage of the Internet.

4:45-5:45  BackOffice and the Internet
Todd Warren, Group Program Manager - Desktop and Business Systems Division
You'll learn how, today, you can use BackOffice as a fundamental piece of your Internet solution. You will see examples of existing, shipping 3rd-party applications that use Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server to provide database and messaging technology to the back-end of a Web Solution.

Takeaways

1. The Microsoft Solutions Development Kit allows developers to get all the information they need on creating integrated solutions with Office and BackOffice. The MSDK provides resources for developers that want to build applications for Office 95, BackOffice, Windows 95 and Windows NT. The Microsoft Solutions Development Kit is a single, easily-searchable CD with new Office, Visual Basic, OLE, and BackOffice development information and sample code. The MSDK will jump-start your development efforts by showing you how to "glue" Office and BackOffice components together using Microsoft Visual development tools. And you'll get this $99.95 product for FREE as a registered attendee of Microsoft at the Movies.
2. You will also receive the Internet Development Toolbox, produced by the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). This CD contains the lastest tools for developing applications for the Internet. The Microsoft Developer Network is a membership program that makes it easier to take advantage of the latest Microsoft technologies. As an MSDN member, developers get access every three months to technical articles, sample code, every Microsoft software development kit (SDK), every device driver kit (DDK) and current Microsoft operating system technology, including Windows 95, Windows NT, and BackOffice.
3. The Developer Roadmap CD outlines all Microsoft development tools and services.

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