Tag: PDC

Good news, everyone! Well, everyone who's attending PDC 2010 anyway. Microsoft has announced that all attendees will have a chance to shop at the Microsoft Company Store. That news might not have you dancing in your seat, but it's certainly a bit more exciting when you tack on the employee discount they're extending. The "sale" is part of the welcome reception which takes place on October ...

Certified reverse engineer and rather impressive hacker (in the good sort of way) Rafael Rivera, of Uxtheme patching fame, announced on TWiT that he discovered our sneaky friends over in Redmond actually did enable that cool new "superbar" version of the taskbar in the version of Windows 7 that was handed out to guests at PDC (you know, that one that Lee showed off). The superbar was demoed ...

Over on Digg, a user named anog has posted a link to a YouTube video which purports to be a promotional video made by Microsoft showing off Longhorn (Vista's development codename) for PDC 2003 attendees. Watching it really does get you excited about the possibilities for the next version of Windows, until you realize that what they showed really isn't what Vista turned out to be. So, have a ...