Every so often Microsoft holds a Professional Developer Conference and 2008 will host such an event. Trust me, this year will be important. Many of us in Microsoft already have the details on a lot of what is coming and all I can say is its going to be a very exciting time for developers!

Go check out the official website and see a few important highlights below.

http://www.microsoftpdc.com/

Hint: If you look closely at the agenda abstracts you can already guess on what some of the announcements will be all about.

Highlights

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Windows 7 Unveiling at PDC
PDC attendees will be the first to get a look at Windows 7. Pre-beta bits will be distributed, 20+ sessions will be presented and Steven Sinofsky to keynote.

Muglia, Guthrie & Treadwell join keynote line up
Bob Muglia joins Ray Ozzie to unveil our new Cloud Computing platform. Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell join Ray and Steven to dive deep on the latest Win32 and .NET platform advances that enable a next generation of user experiences spanning multiple devices, including a look at the latest developments in .NET, Silverlight, “Live Mesh”, and the rest of the client platform.