So this morning I watched the PDC live from my desk in Redmond.
This was great to be able to see all of the presentations
without leaving my office (except for a bathroom break). It
seems like 3 hrs is a long presentation. They had so much
information to put out I guess. It all started, as it should,
with the Red Vs Blue Halo video. They talked about Avalon, which
is the presentation layer for "Longhorn". There were many cool
new features like XAML. XAML is going to allow developers to
declaratively create rich UIs. They should some cool features of
WinFS which is the new unified storage system. They talked about
WinFX which is the Longhorn API set. Amazon did a great Indigo
demo. Indigo is the communication layer, including Web Services,
Remoting, and Reliable Messaging. They demoed "ClickOnce" a
unified build system.