Another micro-post (no, this isn't a trend; I'm just busy this week preparing for a Quarterly Business Review), this one on PDC 2008 and Windows 7. Not only will PDC attendees _see_ Windows 7 first, attendees will get pre-beta bits.

Now For the Cheesy Sales Pitch
But wait, that's not all! (What can I say? I'm in a cheeky mood.)

For those of you who have attended PDC, you know that "the goods" are the SWAG of choice for attendees. And for those of you who have never attended PDC, let me regale you with what "the goods" are. This is the stuff we all get, the SWAG, the bits we all want. The last PDC I attended, "the goods" were Visual Studio Code Named Whidbey (VS2005) and all manner of nifty samples, Frameworks, and software. A collection of DVDs laden with things developers crave.

This year, "the good" come on a 160GB external hard drive. I've seen it referenced as a "Hard Drive Chock Full o' Bits" (seriously, here's the post). This is even better than getting "the goods": you get all the bits on a supremely useful, and reasonably sizable, hard drive.

And that's the SWAG every attendee will get. Too bad I'm not actually _attending_ the conference. I'll be in LA, but just for side meetings and dinners, and other fancy, pseudo-LA stuff.

But I Digress
Also now announced are more sessions as well as a larger lineup of speakers, with Bob Muglia, Scott Guthrie, and David Treadwell joining Ray Ozzie on stage for keynotes, demos, and all things of interest to developers.

If you haven't registered, there's still time to register. And if you do go, drop me a note on my blog and perhaps we can meet up!