Quick glimpse of this mornings keynote at PDC 2005 at Daniel Spisak on Technology

Bill Gates put on a good keynote this morning along with Jim Alchin. This was probably the first PDC where Alchin got a warm applause for some of the things he was showing off. Microsoft is really pushing “rich” user experiences at the client side through the use of Windows Presentation Foundation (also available in a Lite format that is supposed to be cross platform and cross browser). Two decent photos I managed to get of Gates and Alchin follow:

Bill Gates during PDC 05 Day 1 Keynote

Jim Alchin during PDC 05 Day 1 keynote

Additionally, during the demos of WPF cross platform capabilities they showed an application demo using WPF that ran on a very slick Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone the i-Mate JASJAR. Alchin then asked the audience how would they like to have such a cool phone and then announced that MS had struck a deal to allow PDC attendees to purchase the phone for $149 while their supplies of the phone lasted. Bear in mind this phone sells for around $1149 online so this was an astounding deal!

i-Mate JASJAR

About the Author

Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.

I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.

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