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What is Microsoft Office Live meeting?

Live Meeting, formerly PlaceWare Conference Center, is a new service in the Microsoft Office System that enables you to collaborate online with employees, clients, and customers in real time with groups of 2 or more than 2,000. With just a phone and a computer with an Internet connection, you can free yourself from the cost and hassle of business travel.

More Information is available at the Microsoft Office Live Meeting Homepage.



Why should I attend the Professional Developer's Conference?

PDC 2003, this October in Los Angeles, is being widely heralded by the development community as a "must-attend" event for enterprise developers, software architects, software engineers, Web developers, and Web development managers wanting to stay in sync with Microsoft's platform roadmap.

Be one of the first to look under the hood of "Longhorn."
"Longhorn" is the code name for the next major release of Microsoft Windows®—and the innovation runs deep. At PDC 2003, you can be the first to get information on how to build your applications to take advantage of "Longhorn," and be ready for the future.

Get up to speed on the next-generation database capabilities of "Yukon."
With deep XML support and Common Language Runtime integration, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, code named "Yukon," will take programmability, scalability, availability, and business intelligence to the next level.

Experience the future of application development with Visual Studio "Whidbey."
Extend your power and productivity with upcoming versions of Microsoft Visual Studio®. Unleash the power of advanced Web services, harness business processes, and transform database programming with "Yukon." See the latest innovation in Visual C#®, Visual C++®, Visual Basic®, and other programming languages.

Take Web services to the next level with Microsoft .NET connected software.
Web services have become the industry choice for connecting systems. At PDC 2003, you'll see where Web services are going next, with new capabilities, advanced infrastructure tools, and new opportunities.

Get early code.
PDC attendees have always been the first to get developer previews of important future products. The tradition continues with PDC 2003—get early, and in some cases, exclusive code for Windows "Longhorn," SQL Server "Yukon," Visual Studio "Whidbey," and other technologies.