Bill Gates Keynote at the Microsoft PDC

[LovingU]

In a live keynote from Los Angeles at the world?s premier event for software developers, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates unveils the next generation of software application opportunities, featuring important technical previews of the next version of Microsoft Office, code-named "Office 12," and Microsoft Windows Vista, formerly code-named "Longhorn."

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Time zone offset: UTC - 7 hours

PDT is 7 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

but on the official website of pdc'05, it says the event will start at 8:30 A.M. Pacific (confirmed it's a.m.) albeit of that in the picture.

Edited September 13, 2005 by LovingU

[NeoXY]

thanks for the link :)

[Mister Lamar]

Is this like, the thing media center crashed and Conan said a few people got fired.

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Is this like, the thing media center crashed and Conan said a few people got fired.

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No... this is happening tomorrow morning.

[Detroit]

Sweet :)

[smooths*]

i could see this thread quickly becoming popular! thanks for the link man :)

[Brandon Live Veteran]

First on the agenda will be how well Microsoft guards its secrets regarding planned announcements in comparison to its competitors =D

[Kr0z]

Connected to the stream but this is what I get? :unsure:

That screenshot didn't capture what's happening on my screen, all the colors are weird psychodelic.

How much longer till it starts? I'm in a different time zone.

[LovingU]

a vista aero glass effect in the pic, haha

Edited September 13, 2005 by LovingU

[cwhast]

if anyone needs to convert 8.30pm PDT to their timezone see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

[freedom77]

ok so what time will this be showing, in irish time iam to lazy to work out :(

[cwhast]

september 14 @ 4.30am

[Kr0z]

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Hmm on mine the colors are all wrong and back to front, shimmering colors. :/

Ok - it was Media Player 9 that was at fault. Installed MP10 and all is fixed. Thanks

[Mister Lamar]

Im glad someone said tomorrow evening, I was sitting here waiting. :no:

[cwhast]

lol. i wouldn't have noticed if it didnt say PDT coz im in AEST and thats what made me look.

[trek]

is the graphic wrong? on the microsoft pdc site it says the keynote is at 8:30am PST.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/

[Veedems Veteran]

Damn, if it's AM, I won't be able to see it

[xxdesmus]

I think it is in fact am if i remember correctly :unsure:

[BajiRav]

Straight from PDC website

Bill Gates? keynote will be broadcast live and available on-demand. Watch it here on September 13, 2005 at 8:30am.

I hope it is not delayed by 12 hrs due the power problems in LA:no:o:

[Rudy]

damn i'll never be able to get up that early :(

[max84]

Man, how come they still don't have HD webcasts like Apple does?

[BajiRav]

Man, how come they still don't have HD webcasts like Apple does?

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Apple's webcast are not in HD, they are just using H.264 for encoding. :rolleyes:

Try the latest one for nano, max you get is 640x360 I think.

In fact my iBook G4 (<1 yr) can't play most of the HD stuff on QT's website. it would be foolish to force HD when their laptop line + mac mini can barely handle the load.

[Ryan Hoffman]

I love the ghetto music in the background O_o....

I can't wait for it to start :D.

[cwhast]

oh crap, its 1.30am tomorrow morning aest.

[max84]

Apple's webcast are not in HD, they are just using H.264 for encoding.  :rolleyes:

Try the latest one for nano, max you get is 640x360 I think.

In fact my iBook G4 (<1 yr) can't play most of the HD stuff on QT's website. it would be foolish to force HD when their laptop line + mac mini can barely handle the load.

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Yeah, ok. You're right. But 640x360 H.264 is still miles better than a crappy 300kbps stream. Microsoft, the big game player, could at least manage a 700kbps stream.

All the HD stuff works fine on my laptop. But then again, I have no Apple. Though I tried them out in the Apple Store here in London. And it works fine.