WinHEC 2008: Windows Hardware Engineering Conference
WinHEC 2008 Keynote from Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, Wednesday November 5th, 2008WinHEC 2008 Keynote from Bill Laing, Thursday November 6th, 2008
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The next WinHEC conference is not scheduled at this time, as our focus is on finalizing Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 development. Based on feedback from WinHEC 2008 attendees we are planning the next WinHEC to better align with other Microsoft conferences and are looking to move back to a spring timeframe.

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What they talked about at WinHEC

Day 1
Driver Installation for 32-bit and 64-bit Platforms
How to Design and Test Multitouch Hardware Solutions for Windows 7
Mobile Battery Life Solutions: A Guide for Mobile Platform Professionals
Windows Device Experience
Windows Sensor and Location Platform
xperf: Windows Performance Tools Kit, v.4.1.1
Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance

Day 2
Connected Digital Picture Frames: Analysis and Specifications
Design Guidelines and Considerations for Building Windows Certified Network Media Devices
Driver Verifier in Windows 7
Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 (Channel 9)
Multifunction Device Support and Device Container Groupings in Windows 7
Power Policy Configuration and Deployment in Windows
Receive-Side Scaling Enhancements in Windows Server 2008
Supporting Systems That Have More Than 64 Processors

Day 3
Best Practices Guide for Developing Print Drivers
How to Use an INF to Override the Monitor EDID
Protected Broadcast Driver Architecture (PBDA) Specification
Testing and Troubleshooting the Print Subsystem
Tracing and Diagnosability for WDF Drivers

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What the Blogsphere says

WinHEC: Windows 7 Bosses Push Better Hardware, More Choices
Win Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 move ahead in lockstep
Microsoft WinHEC 2008: General Impressions
Windows 7 to revolutionize PC troubleshooting
Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 becomes Remote Desktop Services, What's New?
WDK Documentation Blog: Final thoughts from WinHEC
Trouble Ahead- Trouble Behind: Determining WDF runtime and client versions
Adrian Ford on XPS : New XPS Features in Windows 7


WinHEC 2008 Gold Sponsors:

Intel   Seagate

WinHEC 2008 Sponsors


WinHEC Asia

WinHEC Asia took place at three locations:

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